One of my favourite authors is Cormac McCarthy. I’m a writer but he is an artist. I am both awed and humbled when I read his novels. Cormac McCarthy circles so far above me that he makes me wonder why I even attempt to write. …

May 1989, The Cure release their eighth studio album, “Disintegration”, to a lukewarm reception from critics. ‘Back to their early days of doom and gloom’ was the general consensus. It was perceived by many as a middling effort, but over the years ‘Disintegration’ has gained the reputation of an iconic…

Of course, ‘that other guy’ is George A. Romero, the Godfather of Zombie Movies. Romero designed the modern zombie template back in 1968 with his film “Night of the Living Dead”. George Romero created a new form of monster just like Bram Stoker created Dracula and Mary Shelly gave birth…

Sometimes there’s a specific moment when an artist finds their voice, when all that came before is a coda to all that will be. The Beatles found their voice with “Revolver” and Kate Bush found it with her 4th album, “The Dreaming”. “The Kick Inside”, “Lionheart”, and “Never Forever” created…

My teenage son loves chess, gaming, dungeons and dragons, weight-lifting, and spending a lot of time in his room or in the garage away from the inquisitive eyes of his loving parents. He’s a good kid but he’s still a teenager. We count on seeing him every night for dinner…

A loving tribute to “Reservation Dogs, Season 2”. I just finished watching Season Two of Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s excellent series, “Reservation Dogs”, and like many Native Americans, I laughed and cried and felt so good about seeing Natives portrayed as we see ourselves and not through the lens of the dominant white culture. [The irony is…

SONOFABITCH! Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan had a five-season arc mapped out for “Westworld” and after four of the five seasons, HBO pulls the plug. Grrrr… I guess I’ll throw “Westworld” onto the pyre of my burning resentment along with “Carnivale” and “Deadwood”. Yes, the first two seasons of “Westworld”…

I never thought I’d be a father and I never wanted it. My relationship with my Dad was terrible, mainly because he wasn’t much of a father. He was consumed with being an alcoholic and that’s a full-time job. I married Judith when I was 40 and she was 39…

I stayed up late to binge-watch Danny Boyle’s “Pistol” mini-series. My wife made it through a couple of episodes before bowing out. She was never an angry young man like I was. There was a time in my young life when the Sex Pistols meant a lot to me. Out…