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Dispatches Of Note

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E33: Advice To My High School Self

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If you could travel through the mists of time to offer advice to a younger version of you, what would you say? It’s sci-fi meets Ann Landers (which would have been a totally valid reference in the mid-80’s, which is where I’d have to travel to…I am getting old).

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E32: H.P. Lovecraft - Television Writer

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If H.P. Lovecraft were alive today, we’d like to think he’d have a more modern view on certain issues. But we do know one thing, regardless of whether or not he evolved as a person, he’d almost certainly be in the writers’ room of some television show.

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E13: Random Lines From That Noir Novel I Am Writing

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There's a certain romance to the idea of hammering away at a detective story on a manual typewriter, with a glass of whiskey to the side as an overhead fan pushes motes of dust in the shafts of light poring through the slats of wooden window blinds. Sometimes you just want to be Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. Sometimes you just want to create a wisecracking private eye in the grand noir tradition. But, sometimes you are too lazy to actually write a whole book, so here are some random lines from my upcoming someday tale, A Game Of Lies.

 
 
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E12: Pitches For The New Twilight Zone

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Jordan Peele, director of Get Out and Us, is the latest person to try and recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Rod Serling's groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone. We feel that we can offer a hand by providing ideas for taking the classic episodes and updating them for Peele's new effort. So, submitted for your approval.....

 
 
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