TWW: Riverwest Ghosts, Typewriters, Political Monsters, etc.
September was busy!
September was a busy one! Here's a roundup of some writings and media I did.
Chicago typewriter scene: I wrote my first piece for Chicago Reader, "Gen Z is into typewriters," which appeared in their print edition and online. It's a look at a fairly new typewriter service shop, Typewriter Chicago and the Chicago typing scene in general.
Riverwest Radio Ghost Walk: This is a unique, fun project created by Jill Capicchioni. Writers and artists provided fiction and nonfiction ghost stories and business and homeowners decorated their buildings to correspond to them. The stories and a map of the participants are collected in a booklet you can buy at several Riverwest businesses (see flyer below) for $10 and the proceeds benefit Riverwest Radio. You pick up a copy, then check out the spots at your own leisure, whenever you want between October 4-31. I contributed two short write ups based on people's stories of supernatural experiences at Cafe Corazon and Nessun Dorma and a short fiction about an ill-fated punk band called The Humpbacks. I haven't done a lot of fiction writing, so that was fun. More info on the project: https://www.riverwestradio.com/riverwest-radio-ghost-walk/
Political Monsters: My zine detailing the correlation between the political party in power and vampire, zombie, and evil clown movies debuted this month. I'm doing a little party for it Sunday Oct. 20 at Lion's Tooth. I'll talk briefly on how I discovered the theory and we'll have a quick round of horror trivia. Anyone dressed as a vampire, zombie, or evil clown gets a free copy of the zine!
More stuff: I wrote about Dungeons & Dragons again for Milwaukee Magazine and talked about it briefly on Lake Effect. Speaking of MilMag, check out the October issue, it's like the Krulos Olympics in that issue-- I wrote about dive bars, the hodag, and puppets! Also, I was a guest on the Indecent with Kiki Anderson podcast to discuss my 2019 book Apocalypse Any Day Now:
Please Clap Dept.: I'm a producer of the horror host documentary I'm Your Host, directed by Alicia Krupsky, which I'm glad to say won both "Best Wisconsin Feature" at Port of Fear Film Festival in Kenosha and "Best Documentary Feature" at the New York Tri-State International Film Festival this month. Nice!
October forecast: Leading up to my party at Lion's Tooth Oct. 20, I'll be featuring a "Political Monsters Week" of related material here on my site every day from October 14-18.