The Mystics Guide to Pointlessness

“She’s perfect, and you’re perfect, the whole thing is perfect even though you know there is no such thing as perfect and that’s perfect… It’s Fukushima with a happy ending.” I use the Eastern psychological model when planning a novel. It is simple. Characters can be described as acting in a wholesome and skillful way, […]

The Idiots Guide to Discovering Surefire Laughs

Those tough nuts can be tough to crack.

The Luddite’s Guide to Grand Theft Auto

Raise a family and juggle like this… that’s a hell of a bunch of stuff to keep in the air… Want to try my game? I’m playing the comically summarizing getting married game. The couple survives the decade’s long ordeal of raising kids. Then, they devote what is left to their lives beguiled by some […]

The Non-Fat Caffè Latte Love Show

It’s Good for Your Heart Kate Hart and The Detroit Women If one starts a career touring with the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus why in the world wouldn’t you find yourself in the midst of producing, The Good to the Last Love-Non-Fat Caffè Latte Love Show… A soul nutting, spoonful of romance, low calorie, […]

Bat Show Audio…

Bats in the House Welcome to the world of entertainment in the Riviera Maya. What we have here is a short clip from my show at Puerto Aventuras just south of Playa del Carmen. I’d just come on stage. I was perhaps 5 minutes into my opening monologue when a sizable bat with wingspan of […]

The Well Paid Truth Tellers…

They are paid to this work and now the peasants are in revolt.

He Got Me and I Got Him… The Storymaker

Alan Plotkin 2014’s recipient of the Golden Finkel We are never alone. Sometimes it seems so. Some days on the road rolling from date to date- show to show, especially back in the day prior to cell phones, I could almost pretend to be in total isolation, an immaculate detached state of being in a […]

Your One Night Stand on the Front Page

Imagining Hot Spring Honeymoon Where Love Has Come to Play “Emptiness does not differ from form. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness,” This ambiguous quote comes from Buddhism’s great teachings contained in The Heart Sutra. Caught in this paradoxical world of here and now, the fiction writer slashes through all the chaos that […]

What not to do in Ketchum

Sweetest Little Piece of Nowhere You Have Ever Seen is Right Here Ketchum until tomorrow and then more south into the Great Basin. Yesterday drove through a mere hint of a couple of towns. Most of them hardly are still there. I noticed in one store I could get a rifle scope from […]

Summer Alongside the Salmon River

Welcome to a slice of heaven on earth You might miss the time of your life. Sometimes I get that feeling. Not today. Life in Idaho along the Salmon River is fat. Bald eagles on wing remind me to notch another best day off my bucket list. My list includes learning how to recognize […]