Monthly Archives: March 2011

Right and Wrong

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I am not going to claim that I am a great writer, but I think I’m pretty good. I’m not going to pretend that I’m a genius at marketing, otherwise I’d be quite rich. But one thing I am going to do is throw a bit of my self-respect out the window and pimp my short story “Right and Wrong”, now available for Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Amazon’s Kindle!

As usual, I can’t and won’t claim to be unbiased, and no self-respecting journalist would do a review or critique of his or her own work. So I won’t claim those things, nor will I do those things. What I will do is tell you a small bit about the story so you can make up your mind if you might be interested in purchasing it through either of the above sources.

The story centers around a private detective named Reginald Washington in 1946, a little more than a year after World War II officially ended. A former fighter pilot that lead bomber escort missions into Germany, and a cop before that, Washington is tasked to find a missing young woman in southern Illinois. The catch? He’s black, she’s not, and the town of Green Prairie is deep in Klan country.

If that piques your interest, and you have a Nook, Kindle, or their apps on an Android, iPhone, computer, or other device, why don’t you pop on over to the appropriate store and purchase a copy now!

Freelance Screenwriter

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As of this moment, I’m making myself available as a freelance screenwriter. I’m not limiting myself, at this time, to any genre, medium, or topic. You want a script, drop me an email and we’ll talk terms.

X-Filing Supernatural

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As I told some of my fellow Cinema Studies students last week, I don’t normally recommend watching Supernatural. The reasons are many and varied, but usually boil down to my viewpoint that the show’s themes aren’t terribly original. That’s changed, over the years, but I’m usually quite bored when I watch it, and the usual reason I do watch it is because it comes on right after Smallville.

Every now and then, however, they have a really well written episode, a seriously funny episode, or one that’s fortunate enough to be both. Such an episode was “Clap Your Hands If You Believe” which carried hilarious subtitle of “Fight The Fairies!” (or at least should have), and then there was last week’s episode, “The French Mistake”, the main characters were transported to an alternate reality where they were actors playing their characters. In the soon to be immortalized words of Castle from an episode a few weeks back, “it was too meta…” Jensen Ackles playing Dean Winchester discovering that Dean Winchester was a character being played by the actor Jensen Ackles… The only way to unfuck that is to realize that Ackles was ultimately playing a unsteady version of himself. Nonetheless, it was a funny and well written episode that undoubtedly made a lot of other cinephiles like myself laugh whole heartedly… Assuming I wasn’t the only one that watched it…

So, being in my usual state, I decided to watch tonight to see if they might do anything interesting. Ultimately, it wasn’t the plot that caught my attention, though it was very X-Files-ish, but it was the fact that it actually had two X-Files alumni appearing. “And Then There Were None” starred Mitch Pileggi, known to X-Files fans as Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and Steven Williams, the legendary Mr. X himself! While I always recognize Pileggi, and knew that he’d been playing the role of Samuel Winchester, the primary character’s previously deceased grandfather, Steven Williams has only appeared in 4 episodes according to IMDB, and I didn’t recognize him right off the bat. As the episode went on, his face and voice began to ring some bells, and I looked him up discovering that it was indeed Mr. X.

It took me a full hour after the show went off to make the connection and realize that everything about tonight’s episode was in essence an X-Files tribute. Mr. Kripke, you’re slowly turning me into a fan!