When Dracula Gets Drunk

It wouldn't be Halloween without at least one vampire joke. This Halloween, I give you one about Dracula and what late-night drinking looks like when you're a vampire: https://tapas.io/episode/1143149

Life of Crime

Sometimes a concept is silly enough you decide to refine it and write about it again later. I decided to take one of the comic strips I'd written back in high school and redraw it for my current webcomic series: https://tapas.io/episode/1143129  

Lovecraft and Tolkien Presentation

Today, I had the pleasure of giving a compare and contrast presentation on H.P. Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkien at Taylor University: Lovecraft & Tolkien: Dread, Horror, and Human Flourishing You can read the text of the presentation at the link above, or see a video of the presentation if you prefer. Here are some photos of …

Problems in the Surgery Room?

Doctor jokes have so much potential for dark comedy, which explains why I seem to keep coming back to them, either in comic strips or humor articles. Here's a fresh doctor's joke you may or may not have heard, brought to you by the web-comic Whales Speaking Yiddish: https://tapas.io/episode/1143113

Answering the Puritans Part 6

In this series (click here for Part 1), I’m looking at 5 questions about arts based on something a Puritan wrote and giving some answers. If you want, you can also read my thoughts on the previous question, Part 5. Question (5 out of 5): Do we sin by approving of stories where sinful things happen? …

“Mr. Ekwood’s Unfortunate Summoning”

Some months ago, I talked about a short story I'd gotten published as an audiobook. I'm pleased to announce that another one of my short stories has gotten published by the same group. You can check it out below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5MPwXppd4

4 Things Artists Can Learn from Terence Fisher

If you do any kind of research into the best horror films ever made, you'll eventually hear about the works of Terence Fisher. Fisher directed a number of excellent horror films for a company called Hammer Studios in the 1950's and 1960's. Many of these films starred Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, usually as two …

Found Footage Sci-Fi movie

When you start making short films, you're almost obligated to eventually make a found footage film. It's a fun way to cover a big, usually expensive concept in a simple way. You can watch the film on YouTube, and find out more about on its IMDb page.

Further Adventures of the Batmobile

Batman's car is a huge, highly complex vehicle with dozens of pieces of complicated tech in it. Most of us have discovered that "complicated tech" usually means "likely to shut down, break or do the wrong thing at the worst moment." So, in this installment of Whales Speaking Yiddish, I look at what might happen …

Answering the Puritans Part 5

In this series (click here for Part 1), I’m looking at 5 questions about arts based on something a Puritan wrote and giving some answers. To read my thoughts on the previous question, click here. Question (4 out of 5): Is spending money on entertainment wasteful? Answer: There are certainly occasions where spending money on entertainment is …