Horrid Pause for Morbid Humor

8 12 2014

Have you seen “Black Mirror”? It’s now streaming on NetFlix.

YOU MUST SEE THIS!

It’s a series by Charlie Brooker originally aired on BBC4. The anthology episodes are heavy satire, using the theme of near-future technology stepping out-of-bounds. It is great SF, funny, and moving. My favorite is “The Waldo Moment” where the producer of a political program premiers an animated bear character who out-Blacks Lewis Black. The bear goes from “speaking truth to power” to becoming actual power. But all the eps are great!

I WISH I COULD WRITE FOR BLACK MIRROR! There’s a special Christmas episode coming on on Beeb4 this month. Can you send me a copy, anyone?

 





Another Great Review for “The Flesh Sutra” PLUS “ERIC BLOODAXE” by DQD Comedy Theatre, 1994

28 06 2014

Another reader is absorbed by “The Flesh Sutra”. See what the editor of Pseudopod called “a beautiful, precision timepiece of unease.”

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and here is another comedy sketch from My Long Ago,

 

written by Steve Mamlin, I co-star with James Dempsey, who went on to become James and The Breakpoints.





Sunday Video Flashback: “The Drawing Room” with DQD Comedy Theatre

15 06 2014

with Steve Mamlin and Candace Karch





Sunday Video Flashback: “Brain-Damaged Frank’s Used Cars” by DQD Comedy Theatre

8 06 2014

with Ron Foligno in 1993, I think.





Book Launch for “The Flesh Sutra” at BaltiCon, May 24

30 05 2014

The end of Chapter Two, “The Mother and The Worm”, helped me realize that the best themes and symbols are totally accidental. Right now, I believe the best thing artists can do is present their own secret, lonely religions.

 





BaltiCon Book Launch Videos

30 05 2014

I toast. I read. By all accounts, I kicked ass. Here’s the opening toast with Tom Doyle, who launched “American Craftsmen”.

 

 





Sunday Video Flashback “I Won The Chicken”

25 05 2014

From 1991 to 1994, I was in “DQD Comedy Theater”, a sketch and improv group based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This sketch was written by a wry British friend named Mitchell Pearson.








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