Ahh.

The city has gone quiet, after 30 days of merchandising and madness - and now there is only the sound of soft rain and the counting down of cash drawers.

I'm home again ( Read more... )

On the 4th of September, I was told by my boss that he wanted me to attend a trade show in Chicago at the end of the month. I was to go to Graph Expo on the 29th, take a turn around the floor and see what the competition was up to, collect some collateral we could study, that sort of thing. They were going to put me up at the Palmer House Hilton ( Read more... )

I'm very pleased with myself. For years now, I've been looking for a particular movie soundtrack - that of the 1995 movie "Strange Days", starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis... And for years, I've not been able to locate one. It was almost as if the studio had disavowed any knowledge of this film, much less the soundtrack ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Remembrance Day, and as I do every year, I pulled a dead man's coat out of the back of my closet and thought about a man who forever changed the course of my life. Nick Tomasin's been dead for 23 years now, but his death was one of the formative events of my personal history; hence, the inclusion in the calendar ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Evens, sole reader. ...Perhaps I should take a moment to explain that ( Read more... )

We don't have any groundhogs in the area, so this February 2nd we kept our eyes peeled for another rodent - there's a rat living under the neighbor's shed, making quick, skulking shuttle runs out to our bird feeder and back. (He's been emboldened, I think, by the squirrels.) This morning we saw him, scuttling through the fence, so you know what ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to consolidate a few professional samples of my work in Marketing, and post them where other people can easily find them. This, I find, is an excellent idea - though I'm finding that a great deal of my material is either hard to attribute to me, missing a byline, or in some format that can't easily be uploaded ( Read more... )

For the past year, I've been reviewing the journal I scribbled my way through in 1993, taking a day-by-day look back at my life 20 years previous. It was a pretty eventful year: I had a number of relationships, shared an apartment with a friend, leapt the country to live and work in the UK, and returned in triumph to start my life anew, with ( Read more... )

I've been away from this for a while, but felt I should mention it:
One of the things I've been doing is working with my friend, Robb Pratt, on a rewrite of the first book in our Cidae's Rise series. The book, Dead Weather, had originally been written as a kind of experiment, to see if we could do it; it went so well, we decided to embark on a ( Read more... )