I am so excited I can’t stand it! The Safari Chronicles Volume 1: The Safari Adventure Company is finally available again. After a 5 year “out of print” exile you can now get it on Amazon.com – and for the totally insane price of just 99 cents! (The hardcover was priced at $24.95.) This is [...]
Okay, it’s driving me crazy that I get totally fishmeckled about what in the world to publish on my own website. One day it’s politics, one day it’s social stuff, one day it’s a funny spoof video about the annoyingly omnipresent Ali Brown, and then it’s why and how to use a Gravatar to let [...]
I’m walking into the 3 Kings Tavern with my friend Sean to hear The Hollyfelds, a very talented local country act, that is playing what is usually a hard rock/punk venue in Denver Colorado, and I’m bitching, ranting really, about my latest annoyance – that no original or interesting music has come out in the [...]
[hana-flv-player video="http://machine-members.s3.amazonaws.com/Paperback-Writer.flv" width="400" height="330" description="Beatles Paperback Writer Music Video set to Buzzy Book" player="4" autoload="true" autoplay="false" loop="false" autorewind="true" clickurl="http://speakermachine.com" clicktarget="_blank" /]“It’s a dirty story of a dirty man, and his clinging wife doesn’t understand. His son is working for the daily mail. It’s a steady job, but, he wants to be a paperback writer…” The [...]
I’ve been saying for the last 2 years that for speakers, coaches, consultants and others who write non-fiction that the “book deal” is a dead dog. With some of the most creative minds in the world publishing online (much of it free) you have to start seeing that if you are going to print a [...]
Except for 3 years in seminary, my formal education was limited to the lofty pinnacle of a high school degree from the prestigious School of the Osage in Lake Ozark Missouri. After 10 years as a professional musician, rolling around North America in a van playing popular music (read cover band), I got a job [...]
(scroll down and start the Elvis Costello music video – it makes a good audio backdrop to this story) It’s a quarter til midnight. It’s 18 degrees f and the inch-er-so of snow that fell last night in Denver squeaks and gives just a little under your tennis shoes. Mom and Dad and the SUV [...]
