a literary confidence
Picture This 119: All's Fair in Love and War, which explored film and tv music related to both themes, was broadcast Sunday, February 15th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org). Join host Wayne Cresser on 2/22, when he takes a deep dive into Fabulous Fakes.
The Other Hitchcock was broadcast on Picture This: Film Music on the Radio on Sunday, (This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org). Join host Wayne Cresser on Sunday, February 15th, for Oh! What a Ghastly War, music from mostly anti-war films.
Click the link to the Mischief Time Blog, where you can listen to Picture This 115: Best Scores of 2025/Gus Khan, which was broadcast last Sunday, December 21, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser when he kicks off 2026 with more of the best Film and TV music of 2025, and other, stranger things. Same time, same place: Sundays, 6-8 PM on WRIU 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org.
"In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes serve up pop songs from Eydie Gorme’ to Frank Sinatra, jazz from Cannonball Adderley to Ramsey Lewis, garage rock from ? Mark and the Mysterians to the Standells, soul from Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding, psychedelic rock, blues rock, folk rock and novelty hits from alpha to omega, the occasional tribute song offered a wonderful little diversion." Read more of Wayne Cresser's Meta-hits of 1967: Spotlight on the Year Pop Music Celebrated Itself in Song, here on the Mischief Time Blog ...
Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles, for which your intrepid scribe was invited by hosts James Allan and Ashland Comorack to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their podcast. I am very thankful for the chance since it was a joy to talk about writing with people who appreciate it and do a fair amount of it themselves.
Happy to let all readers of the Mischief Time Blog know about the activities of Jamestown literary group, The Rhodeo Poets, whose active citizens have pulled together a monthly open mic at the popular Narragansett Cafe. If you're around. you don't want to miss it. And if you've got the work, they would love to hear it.
Hello Mischief Time Blog readers...Yours truly has been gone for a while, traveling the beautiful Canadian Maritimes, covering many miles on the Lobster Trail. More about that shortly; I’ve got some goodies on my plate that need to be shared. Much thanks and announcement about an upcoming live event!
News from the Bubble World of Pop Euphoria: The French Connection Comes to WRIU Radio! and we here at the Mischief Time Blog just want to let you know. Bonne journée!
Meet the author: Wayne Cresser will be signing copies of The Book of Norman at Wakefield Books, Wakefield Mall, 160 Old Tower Hill Road in lovely (it is!), Wakefield, RI from 10 am to noon on Saturday, May 3. If you're in the area, please drop by.
Henry slipped the clipping between the last page and the back cover. He’d get back to it later. Right now he felt like he needed to start at the front of the book. He turned to the first page. At the top, in tidy cursive lines, he read, January 1, 1978, These are the ramblings, musings and meanderings of Henry Louis Bell. May they someday find their way to the ones I love.
Just Between You and Me 