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What Happened Was... (in memoriam, Tom Noonan)
Actor, director, and playwright Ton Noonan has died. He was 74. He had a long and productive career, appearing in many films and teevee shows and producing his own work along the way. But I would never have watched the remarkable 1994 film he wrote, directed, and starred in had
The Albums of My Life: 5150 by Van Halen
Here's a new series I'm going to be pursuing here on the Dispatches! The idea is pretty simple: these are just essays about albums that have been particularly meaningful throughout my life, for one reason or another. We'll be covering music of all genres.
A bio, because...bio!
It's time for a new bio! If your response to that is "I didn't know you had an old bio," well, that's one good reason for a new bio. My old bio, which has been on my main website for eleven years
[thinking while dipping the pen in the inkwell]
Dearest Readers, It is my hope that this missive finds you all, and finds you well. I'm hoping those things because in the case of the latter, well, I genuinely wish you all well! In the case of the former, though, it is because I have, after much