Gonna Make You Burn, Gonna Make You Sting Death isn’t something you expect to confront on vacation. But on my family’s recent trip to the Philippines, we did. We wanted the kids (ages 7 and 10) to experience the country and culture of the...
My original rock band, 7k, has been officially over since early 2011, but our music lives on! I just got word that the song “Take It Off” from our final, eponymous album will be used in an upcoming episode of the Hulu series...
The pressure to write something “publishable” can stifle creativity to an alarming degree. Perhaps that’s why my second book took so long to find. I say “find” because it didn’t take that long to write —...
Ric Ocasek died yesterday, and it hurt. Many of my musical heroes have died recently, and each death affected me –Chris Cornell’s and David Bowie’s especially. But Ric Ocasek’s death feels personal, like a hammer knocking a chip out of my...
(Or, My Geek Renaissance) Nearly six years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Re-Geeking,” in which I shared the joy of my re-assimilation into geek culture via the video game Portal. It was a most welcome homecoming. I grew up playing D&D,...
Since becoming a semi-adult, I’ve had three creative careers. I started as an actor (mostly 90s sitcoms and early 2000s indie films), transitioned into touring rock musician (as the lead singer and bassist of 7k), then became a writer. It...