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No Artist Is Pleased

My early failed attempts to work in animation and comics. If I only knew THEN what I know NOW.

”Strangers in Paradise,” or Collecting on a Budget

My Adventures in Underscore, part 4 - Trials and tribulations of a nacent LP collector. Check out a playlist for this story on Apple...

Here Today, Dad Tomorrow

Entering a strange new world for the first time... at the age of 20. It’s 2:55pm and it feels like midnight. It’s been a long day. I look...

Switching On Soundtracks

A magical new sound tickles my fancy—My Adventures in Underscore, part 3 You wouldn’t expect a couple of eighth graders to come to blows...

A Tribe Called Drama

How a shy, awkward kid learned to act normal. I started public high school at a distinct disadvantage. Catholic school might have been...

Listen to What You Watch

My Adventures in Underscore, part 2 - Peering thru the cathode-ray tube. There was a time when you couldn’t pull a device out of your...

First Time the Waters Came

Remembering the sad legacy of my old neighborhood. “Your house isn’t there anymore.” I had to read the message a couple of times—it...

The Music That Made Me

My Adventures in Underscore, part 1- Looking for music is all the wrong places. Music isn’t just one of the great joys in life. As far as...

The Longing

In a house full of toys and games, what more could three boys want? Longing for something out of reach was a familiar feeling in our...

“The awful thing about life is this…”

Film school and California culture were a shock to my system. My first semester in the SF State Cinema Department was thrilling. Moving...