Six easy tips — Lucid dreaming does not come natural for me, so I have to do a lot of prep work, work on my technique, as per the work of lucid dreaming pioneer Stephen LaBerge, if I want to trigger lucidity. Here’s a few techniques that have worked for me in the past: Relax …

George Carlin and My American Dream — The one time I saw George Carlin in concert was on a warm midsummer’s eve, forty-two years ago today. He was playing the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre, a newly-built outdoor stage in Sterling Heights, Michigan, right around the corner from the hamlet of Fraser, my hometown. Perhaps the word amphitheatre is…

Journal entry — It was, as always, a beautiful day for the respiratory apparati in Los Angeles. Iridescent orange-green air domed the basin from north to south like a gigantic overhead fake boob. Soft jasmine breezes wafted in the middle air, infusing a delicate bouquet into the shimmering sheen of carbon dioxide spewing…

Old-Timey Thought Bubble Snaps — Since the advent of the online Comments section, we all seem to feel that we have some kind of freedom, even some kind of civic duty, to say the most nasty thing we can think of about other people, all in the name of the First Amendment, defending our horrific…

Spirit In The Night — FULL MOON FROG POND is my first non-canine album release, produced under the nom de musique Gregory Rosa. It’s an EP — two songs, twelve minutes total, plus the bonus track — and is reflective of the New Music composition creative tributary that I opened up and embarked upon in…

Nature’s serotonin hit — I saw the world’s happiest baby the other day. He was in one of those front-loading baby carriers, heading out of the grocery store with his mom. The mom was holding him just so, and when she saw that the baby and I had locked eyes and that his full-blown…

1953 to 1957 — My love of photography and filmmaking was instilled in me at an early age by my late father, John. The basement of our suburban home was a mini photography and motion picture studio, complete with cameras, editing gear, projectors, and everything else one needed to create photographs and 8mm movies…

Meister Eckhart Burlesque — I applied for a spot at the Vancouver Fringe Festival shortly before I moved to Vancouver from the Bay Area (arriving seventeen years ago today), when my one act play “The Girls In The Van” was not yet even half-finished. …