Great production of Richard III at A Noise Within in Pasadena, directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos, a favorite. Ann Noble is fantastic in the title role. youtu.be/ZuK6BX8o154?si

Progress? www.screendaily.com/news/concour...

You know what would make a great Valentines gift for someone special (or yourself)? One of my photo zines! Or, better yet, a boxed set of all five. Etsy link in comments.

After a productive week working on the new novel, we gorged on dim sum this morning.

A great double bill, two pre-Code gems from Mervyn LeRoy and Criterion: Three on a Match and Big City Blues. Zippy, sassy, and full of Old Weird America charm. Some of the same actors appear in both, including Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart. youtu.be/mxIqPCGZrLs?si

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover for the Italian translation of The Smack, coming from Minimum Fax.

I’ll be reading at this Palm Springs shindig on Feb. 28. Stop by and say hi.

Here’s a little thing I did for Barbara DeMarco-Barrett’s Pen on Fire Substack. penonfire.substack.com/p/richard-la...

I recently babbled for a bit on the Writers on Writing podcast. Listen to me talk about how applying Dogme 95-type restrictions to your fiction can force you out of writing ruts. www.writers-on-writing.com/writersonwri...

Copies of my newest photo zine, Bring Cigarettes, available on Etsy. Also new: Boxed sets of my first five zines. Treat yourself or your coolest friend. Link in comments.

Watched the Iranian film The Mirror last, a Safdie Bros. recommendation on Criterion. Great, gentle little movie about a girl lost in Tehran that takes a surprising meta turn about halfway through. The trailer below is in French. All I could find. youtu.be/EY1bRY60oLY?si

Here we go again! This was announced a few years ago but never happened. Fingers crossed now. deadline.com/2026/01/case...

Sending out boxed sets of my photo zines and individual copies of the newest, Bring Cigarettes. Get you some. Etsy link in comments.

If you need a palate cleanser after all the shit we’re being forced to eat this weekend, watch Il Posto. A sweet, humane film about a group of office workers in ‘60s Italy. Fantastic in every way. It’s on Criterion. youtu.be/KcXdC8RB3uc?si

We knew it was coming, but….nooooo!

Treat yourself to a copy of my new photo zine, Bring Cigarettes. Half the tar and nicotine of the leading brands but twice the flavor! Etsy link in comments.

Now available, a boxed set of my first five photo zines. One Less Thief in Trona, All That Glitter Ain’t Gold, Not This Pig, Sugarlight, and the newest, Bring Cigarettes. Such a deal! Etsy link in comments.

In addition to writing books, I also take photos and make zines. My latest, Bring Cigarettes, is now available. I’ll also be offering a boxed set of my first five zines (Bring Cigarettes, Sugarlight, Not This Pig, All That Glitter Ain’t Gold, and One Less Thief in Trona). Link to buy in comments.

Can’t wait!

Christmas Eve at Pacific Shores in Ocean Beach. Juke just played Rise Above. Santa is drunk. Hope there’s not a breathalyzer on the sleigh.

Sweet holiday dreams! youtu.be/-ZGjVIlPICI?si

Sugarlight, a photo zine perfect for the film fan on your holiday gift list. Etsy store link in comments.

You know what would make a great holiday gift? A copy of this photo zine, Not This Pig. Etsy link in comments.

For all the weirdos on your holiday gift list. Store link in comments.

Getting down to it. New photo zine soon.

Buddy Steve P. turned me onto this James McMurtry song. It’s a great one. youtu.be/hiKwH_hLZgk?si

Deadline at Dawn (1946) was a lot of fun. Part of the Criterion “Blackout Noir” collection. Screenplay by Clifford Odets from a Cornell Woolrich novel, directed by Harold Clurman, one of the founders of The Group Theater.

Thanks to Allan Greenier at The Useful Knowledge Press for this cool little zine!

Better than any movie I saw this year. youtu.be/epgXuMB1sF8?...

Something new in the works.

Received this in the mail yesterday, a copy of buddy Ed Komenda’s sweet little chapbook, Six Stories. Get yours from Sand and Gravel Press (link in comments).

I love all of the stuff Sam and All Night Menu put out. Looking forward to this on Wednesday night. www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-heroe...

Here’s Jackson Browne doing “Desperados Under the Eaves” at the Wild Honey Foundation’s Warren Zevon tribute show on Friday (h/t to Chris Morris, the show’s fantastic emcee). So much goodness that night! youtu.be/PwgpzBvJ7ZI

Tonight’s entertainment. Still tix available.

Thanks for all of the birthday love! Here is my gift to you: some nightmare fodder. Human Mask, a short film by the artist Pierre Huyghe, filmed in Fukushima, Japan, where the meltdown occurred. Watch it on the biggest screen you can. youtu.be/QJR7HUhrL2s?si

Watched League of Gentlemen (1960) last night. A fun British heist film. Check it out. youtu.be/7uvHIlQ_XCg?si

My novel Rovers makes this list of books blessed by Stephen King. screenrant.com/horror-books...

Great backyard show by Eric Bachmann last night. I gave him a copy of Joe Hustle, which has a lyric from his song “Dreaming”as an epigraph.

Thanks to Keith Rosson for the Rovers shoutout in this roundup of nontraditional vampire tales! Check out his new novel, Coffin Moon. www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/top-5-f...

Kim was researching a campground and came upon this. (Zoom in on the yellow bar.) Fuck these MAGA morons.

Here is The Fall doing “I Come and Stand at Your Door,” a cover of a song written by Pete Seeger and later done by The Byrds. The lyrics are from a poem by Nazim Hikmet Ran. music.youtube.com/watch?v

Happy Friday! music.youtube.com/watch?v

Big Saccharine Trust fan. This is great! First posted it 11 years ago! youtu.be/RFvOEM76s90

My nephew won tonight. First round TKO. www.instagram.com/reel/DPFo6Jc...

Even in Tokyo?! Fuck MAGA in all its permutations and manifestations.

Here’s a crazy shootout I happened upon the other night. It’s from San Antonio (1945), starring Errol Flynn. I’m guessing this is the highlight of the movie. youtu.be/bk_KmWUkZ3k?si

He Walked by Night is a great, LAPD procedural (a template for the TV series Dragnet — Jack Webb even has a role). A creepy villain, fantastic John Alton cinematography, and a script free of hokey psychoanalysis of the bad guy’s motivation. youtu.be/FMkGu8AQScA?si

A couple of funny pages from Shirley Hazzard’s novel The Transit of Venus.

I love this! youtu.be/jvN0ou-RIhc?...

Blast from the past: Me in a RIP Magazine promo from '90 or '91 (the gum chewer). I was managing editor of the mag for seven years. That's Stella Stray Pop from KXLU next to me. youtu.be/KC5eYao9mB4?si