by jeff | Feb 3, 2022 | Citizen Entertainment
The world is stealing my ideas. Okay, technically I didn’t invent the Professional Pillow Fight League, but it does sound exactly like the sort of nonsense I would put in one of my stories, right? In previous novels, I came up with the Future Carnies of America,...
by jeff | Dec 31, 2021 | Citizen Entertainment
A while back, I proposed that we needed to rename COVID. I felt “Mandalorian Death Cooties” was a much better title. It sounds exotic and menacing. COVID sounds like either the rec center at a small private college or the answer to some calculus question I...
by jeff | Dec 22, 2021 | Citizen Entertainment, Citizen Thoughts
I think my brain has a gremlin. And that might not be a bad thing. It’s helped me come up with some good story ideas. One of those is available for the first time today! More on that in a moment. First, did you see the movie Gremlins? Every time one of the nice...
by jeff | Dec 8, 2021 | Citizen Entertainment
Are there any holiday traditions that you think are dumb? (I know I’m entering dangerous territory here, so if I offend you pretend this message came from John Grisham.) For me, it’s outdoor live nativity scenes. I was invited to be part of one once, and I can’t think...
by jeff | Dec 1, 2021 | Citizen Entertainment
Recently, in a moment of madness, I clicked on a headline for some political squabble. One side was accusing the other of fear-mongering. That got me thinking, is there a good kind of mongering? Let’s face it, mongering gets associated with all the...
by jeff | Aug 18, 2021 | Citizen Entertainment
A while back, I told you about the bag of poo someone left in front of my house. Based on the timing, I suspected it had something to do with my Tales From a Roundabout stories, which poke fun at my hometown. My theory was that I had offended someone. My wife’s...