Here's the first chapter to my new novel The Leading Lady, which is about an actress trying to find her missing co-star in Southern California in the late 1990s.
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RIP Randolph Mantooth
A few hours ago The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that actor Randolph Mantooth had died of a long illness at the age of 80. Here's a fan letter I wrote to him in 2025, explaining why he was so important to me and many other kids in the 1970s.
Talking misogyny with Marie
Marie (not her real name) has worked in corporate offices, international non-profits and strip clubs. In 2018, I talked with her about misogyny and how men can be better.
Remembering Lahaina, again
The day after a wildfire destroyed the town of Lahaina on Maui in 2023, I wrote about what the town meant to me, and what its loss would mean for Maui and Hawaii.
My surprise new novel Maui Daze is now available
Because self-publishing is so straightforward on Amazon, I decided to get my old/new novel Maui Daze in front of audiences. But the novel requires some background.
Why I wrote my new ‘memoir’ Remembering Lahaina
After watching Hawai‘i’s governor shame West Maui residents into going back to work in luxury resorts just a few months after the 2003 Lahaina fire robbed many of them of their homes, pets, jobs, and even family members, I realized I needed to write this book.
My new novel The B Girls is now available
My new novel The B Girls, which is about women who work at an unusually chaotic bikini bar in Orange County, California, is now available.
With the new movie ‘Oppenheimer’ out, I think about military opposition to the nuclear strikes against Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The other day I got into a discussion (debate is too strong a word) with a guy I know. Highly intelligent and very experienced in politics and public administration, he was telling me about how he had just seen the new Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer. We talked about the movie, the acting and so forth, … Continue reading With the new movie ‘Oppenheimer’ out, I think about military opposition to the nuclear strikes against Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘Strange New Worlds’ is fun! The Original Series? Not so much
I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was a boy in the 1980s, but I learned more about Jim Kirk in the July 20 episode of Strange New Worlds (“Lost in Translation") than I did in all three seasons of the original series. I shouldn't be surprised about this. Like most hack television series … Continue reading ‘Strange New Worlds’ is fun! The Original Series? Not so much
A Close Reading of Star Trek’s ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’
When I was kid, watching syndicated reruns of original series Star Trek episodes on Saturday afternoon with my dad, I thought the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” which first aired on Sept. 22, 1966, was the best episode of the series. But as an adult, I see the episode very differently now. In … Continue reading A Close Reading of Star Trek’s ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’
