a literary confidence
"A comedic universe awaits in the stories of Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman, a landscape that revolves around his Everyman protagonist, Norman Winters, suffering the relatable slings and arrows prevalent in a world of prevaricators, weirdos, and bullies so you don’t have to." Now available at Amazon, Barnes. Lulu amd Kobo.
by Dai Bando Beginning in the 1950s and peaking in the 1960s, there sprang forth from the hills of Hollywood, a loose collective of session musicians whom industry insiders nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew." In the post-Brit Invasion recording frenzy, L.A.’s star-making machinery wanted their young performers to quickly grow their hair into a pudding bowl... Continue Reading →
I’ll go inside and seek out the laminated card that tells me I was watering a Double Pink Fuchsia, known for its beautiful, multi-colored, pendant blooms which can grow up to three inches long.
-by Dai Bando (originally published in The Hobbledehoy): https://thehobbledehoy.com/) - The Voice Squad "The Parting Glass" (from Waking Ned Devine 1999) The Hothouse Flowers front man Liam Ó Maonlaí (surname pronounced O’-man-lee) performs this in 1999’s Waking Ned Devine but I prefer the recording sung acapella by The Voice Squad. Said music critic Rick Anderson, "The Voice Squad represent the melding of two related but... Continue Reading →
by Wayne Cresser (Author's note: In the realm of publishing, I am happy to report that a new story called, "The Last Time Norm Took Acid," was included in an anthology called 20, published by Carlow University Press in recognition of the 20th anniversary of their MFA Program. Lots of fine writers in these pages,... Continue Reading →
(This show was broadcast on Sunday, January 7 from 7 to 8 PM, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. It will be re-broadcast on Sunday, January 14, same time same place) Listen here: Theme from The Wild One, composed by Leith Stevens, featuring Shorty Rogers Rock Around the Clock from Blackboard Jungle composed by Max C. Freedman and... Continue Reading →
Wind and rain came up after that and I pulled Rhonda under the boat cover. When we crawled out again, we were adrift at sea and there was nothing in sight.
by Dai Bando There are five new additions to my annual “Greatest Christmas Songs” list, now thirty songs in total! This is disconcerting, since my original raison d'être was the claim that there are only about ten good Christmas songs. Then ten became fifteen, then twenty-five, and now thirty. So, I appear to be wro…wr… challenged, in my... Continue Reading →
The well-dressed man in the film says, “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” Maybe then, it’s a good life if you don’t weaken much and an okay life if you don’t weaken a lot, and a shitty life if all you do is weaken. That’s the thing about film heroes, though, they get... Continue Reading →
by Wayne Cresser (Originally published in the Ocean State Review Volume 8: No. 1, 2018) If you hang around Art's parties long enough, you're bound to run into the guy who resembles Crispin Glover, in anything, a gawky watch-capped scarecrow whose clothes add up to thrift store poetry and ragamuffin rhymes. He's the guy who... Continue Reading →
Just Between You and Me 