Spare time can be dangerous

So my friend / bass player / producer (he produced "Long Way Home") Fab and I decided to make a couple of entries for a new reality show about jingle writers (we really have no clue what the show is beyond that). To submit, we had to write two jingles of thirty seconds about fake products or companies (we had a list of choices) and do some kind video to accompany them. Regardless of the outcome, we had a total blast brainstorming and creating the stuff. Fab turned out to be an excellent jingle writer. So if you want to see what spare time becomes in our hands, take a look:


Or, watch it here: Friendship Air



Or, watch it here: Fruit It Up!

Second story chosen for publication

Got a call tonight letting me know I had misunderstood an email I recieved last week, but it's the kind of misunderstanding I like. The Northridge Review will not only publish "Text Messages That Came With the Cellphone" (see last post) in the fall but will also publish "return of the orchards." Rock! "return of the orchards" is an experimental fiction story I wrote for a fiction class and a story I grew to like as I wrote and rewrote. My instructor thought it shared some elements of Stein's "Tender Buttons", though certainly not the mastery of that work. "Tender Buttons" is an amazingly fresh read, considering it was written almost a century ago! At any rate, "return of the orchards" is irreverent and scatalogical...and what more can you ask?

Story chosen for publication

My experimental short story, "Text Messages That Came With the Cellphone" will be published in the Northridge Review literary magazine this fall. The story originated in the Advanced Narrative class I just finished, where we explored all kinds of experimental fiction from Gogol to Borges to Saunders. You can have a look at the authors we studied here.