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A Song for Phineas Pimiscule

Continuing in the vein of filk-blogging books I have read and characters I like, here’s “Bully That”.  It’s about Phineas, the mentor character in E.J. Patten’s about-to-be-published epic horror middle...

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Bully That

Here’s the audio / sham video for “Bully That” (lyrics posted earlier this week). Sorry, I meant to capo it up into G minor, but I forgot until I already had most of the tracks down in the E minor...

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Outsider Genius: Blaze Foley

I spent several evenings at World Con in Reno the other week filking.  Filk is (and probably always will be) something of an outsider art.  I’m going to honor the filkers I met and heard this weekend...

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Snow Faeries Don’t Wear Pants

Storymonkey Platte Clark’s debut, Max Spencer and the Codex of Infinite Knowability, is still over a year from hitting your local Barnes & Noble.  When it does hit, you should buy it, because it’s...

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Filk in Orem

So my filk take on John Cleaver got noticed by one of the organizers of Life, the Universe and Everything (Utah Valley’s sci-fi and fantasy convention, formerly held at BYU but this year at UVU in...

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Large of Stature

Here’s a little something for you, heading into the weekend.  This is how I closed my set at Life, the Universe & Everything 30. Click here to view the video on YouTube. Follow

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Bedlam’s Song

Here’s my most recent song.  I recorded it through the mic and camera of my laptop, so the sound is overloaded — keep the volume down. Click here to view the video on YouTube. Follow

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Fandemonium

This year was my first time attending my local fandom convention, Fandemonium (in Nampa). I had a great time cross-pitching books with Carter Reid, Michaelbrent Collings, and Holand Peterson.  I sold a...

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Westercon and Fantasycon ~ Thursday

Team Look for me today at 1:00 in Deer Valley I and II at Westercon, talking with Deren Hansen about Orrin Porter Rockwell, Steampunk, and the making of audiobooks. Then I shuffle across the street to...

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Westercon 67 (FantasyCon I)

Every con starts like this. Every con ends like this, too.  In between, the rooms fill up with people, stories, and performances. My performances started on Thursday with a brilliant and ambitious but...

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