Blog

May 1, 2004

The Book

The Book cover image

Here's my creepiest story. This is sometimes played by random public radio stations around Halloween. Years ago, it was featured on Love & Radio as well. I often work late and get up early, and...

Read

May 1, 2004

Truck Stop

I got this idea from a similar story in Reader’s Digest. I loved reading all the anecdotes and jokes and the little filler items they had at the end of a story that ran a bit short. One of the...

Read

April 1, 2004

God is Talking to Me

This story idea came to me a long time before I did it. I was downtown walking around and almost stepped in front of a bus. It was pretty near miss, probably one of my top ten “near death”...

Read

December 3, 2003

Shark!

I was several miles off-shore, windsurfing, when I broke down, and was attacked by a shark. Shark is from my Mockumentary days. I think it’s a pretty good piece. It’s complete fiction, or it...

Read

September 1, 2003

Seafood Joint

I went out to eat with some friends and there was a lot of overt racism. I thought about it for a couple of weeks because I was really frustrated by the assholes in that restaurant (a well-known...

Read

August 1, 2003

Stress Test

This is one of the pieces where I feel like I really found my sound. I had made a few pieces in the regular way, telling a story, adding a little music. In this one, I had this really weird...

Read

July 1, 2003

Garbage

Going through other people’s trash. This is one of my Mom’s favorite pieces that I’ve done. It was originally part of a Mockumentary CD I put out in the early part of the millennium. It’s...

Read

April 1, 2003

Mud

I was looking for one of the scariest/stressful things I could think of for a young man, and being naked and 3-5 minutes from my clothes would have done it for me. Several people have mentioned the...

Read

January 14, 2000

Switched Bags

This is one of the first stories I produced. I basically just did some weird abstract stuff. The reference to Pat Buchanan is a reference to the 2000 Presidential Primaries, so this was probably...

Read

October 1, 1999

Dog Pile

This is one of the first irreverent stories I created. From 1995 to 2005 I had a web site called goofiness.com (I sold it in 2005) where I did all kinds of stupid stuff. I had mp3s you could listen...

Read