scop (noun): Old English – bard, minstrel, storyteller
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The Pub Shall Rise Again
I read the news today, oh boy. Last Thursday, the texts started arriving. My daughter got the first one. It was from Liam Macik, a playwright, director, and podcaster who was a frequent special guest at Riley’s Storytelling Nights a few years back. The second text came to me. It was from Christopher Laughrey, my long-time musical…
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They Live … again.
Movies don’t change. We do. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus proclaimed long ago, “You cannot step into the same river twice.” The reason is simple. Both you and the river change with time. But experiencing art is different. Take movies. The original Star Wars trilogy notwithstanding, the films you see in your teens are the…
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More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.
In an age when professional magazines are inundated with computer-generated submissions and screen actors can be replaced by CG doppelgangers, there are still activities that remain exclusively in the human domain. I’m referring to in-person events. You can try and simulate them with Zoom and Facetime, but there’s nothing like the real thing, and I…
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Milford: Authors, The Anchorage, and Arrowhead
Around the world, the town of Milford in eastern Pennsylvania is famous for its role in the development of science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Kurt Vonnegut, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, James Blish, Virginia Kidd, and Anne McCaffrey are just a few of the luminaries who have traveled to Milford to be part of the…
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Forward into the Past: Milford Writers Festival
Eliot … crashed a convention of science-fiction writers in a motel in Milford, Pennsylvania …. “I love you sons of bitches,” Eliot said …. “You’re all I read any more. You’re the only ones who’ll talk about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space…
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Ten Years After: The Veins Cycle
Out of the Past Today’s throwback post revisits a blog tour from September 2014. Promoting the upcoming release of Vortex, the third book in the Veins Cycle, the tour featured posts written for other websites. The first installment was a Proustian interview with the Veins Cycle’s central protagonist–a troubled young man with strange dreams and…