HAIR today, gone tomorrow

But first -- my comic novel, MUST KILL TV, is now on sale for only $0.99 (Kindle version).  This is for a couple of days only.  Here's where you go to order yours.  I want to be part of your summer reading... even if I have to take a...

My book for only $0.99

Starting tomorrow I'm running a promotion on the Kindle version of my comic novel, MUST KILL TV.  For a very limited time, only $0.99!  It starts tonight at midnight PDT.   Here's where you go.  89 reviews 4.6 stars out of 5. ...

One of my favorite forgotten films

Watched one of my favorite movies that will never make the AFI list.   It’s THE STUNT MAN from 1980 – one of the few movies that was nominated for a bunch of Oscars and yet very few people have heard of it. Directed by Richard Rush from...

A truly BIZARRE unsold pilot

This is a show called CHOPSTICKS.  And before you call the PC Police, it's actually a children's game show that did not get on the schedule in 1958.  Considering what did back then, you've got to be pretty awful to not make the grade. ...

Another "How I almost got fired" radio story

Here’s another censorship story – and also one of my early days in radio stories. Except this time I was the censor.In late ‘72/early ’73 I was a board op (glorified name for engineer) at KLOS, Los Angeles. You know today’s “Classic Rock” stations...

Friday Questions

Let’s kick off August with some Friday Questions, shall we?Howard Hoffman follows up on my post about our first script: My very first Friday question: Did you repurpose any of the material from that first script into any of your aired shows? If so,...