Yay, David! So many friends are getting great exposure in the media lately. I’m glad to see David on this list too. Word came last week that David LaBounty, who owns Blue Cubicle Press (publisher of The First Line), is featured at the Utne Reader’s website in the Alt Wire feature (a morning digest of [...]
“Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speed boat / Close your eyes… breath… ladle into that barrel of monkeys you call a head and scoop out an image monkey / Now let that image monkey drive a speed boat, and you, you water ski behind it / Stay behind the image and [...]
Of course with the start of the new year comes the pondering of goals… along with how I did on last year’s goals. Here’s the recap of ’08: Still better fitness: I’d basically say I didn’t do good here at all. We ate out way too much, which made keeping pounds off difficult. I also [...]
Yes, I know I write about [title of show] a lot lately. But it’s a favorite thing and when I found this awesome clip of Heidi Blickenstaff singing my favorite song from the show it had to become a Geek Out. This song is the crux of the show for me as it distills the [...]
“Mindgames” the story that narrowly missed getting into Superqueeroes got accepted this week into Project for a New Mythology, a quarterly literary journal with a stance on artistic social mindfulness. The issue with “Mindgames” gets printed later this month, so I’m very excited to have my first non-The First Line credit. Thanks to Brian for [...]
I’ve just completed my first short story in about four years! It’s a superhero story for an anthology with the tentative title of Superqueeroes. Will found the call for submissions a couple weeks ago and I wrote most of the story last Thursday and Friday. I just put the finishing touches on it this morning. [...]




