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A few years ago I relocated from Philadelphia where I was once involved with the late Theater Center Philadelphia, in ways both artistic and businesslike. Currently I hang out in Brattleboro, Vermont.
I've worked for several northern New Jersey newspapers as a columnist, reporter and photographer; have written on film for publications like Cinefantastique and on collectibles for Scott's Monthly, among others; had my fiction appear in national magazines. You can also find a sage quote of mine, re marriage, in Jaime Allen's book How to Survive Your Marriage: by Hundreds of Happy Couples Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Ex-Spouses who Didn't (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides). Take a guess which category in the title I fit into.
Online my work -- usually humorous -- has appeared in McSweeney's, Lee Klein's Eyeshot, Hobart, etc. I am currently a founding member in good standing of The Guild of Outsider Writers (outsiderwriters.org). Let's see how long it takes me to screw something up there.
My most unusual work involved paying down legal fees (don't ask) by writing jokes for a lawyer to tell at a local-celebrity roast. I was also tenuously connected to the then "greatest living American author," Neal Pollack, as President of the Neal Pollack Fan Club. (For my trouble, Pollack made me, J. Douglas Finch, a character in his rock 'n roll novel, Never Mind The Pollacks. I'm on page 138. Or is it 139? Anyway, I make my appearance right after Iggy Pop. Nice company, don't you think?)
In the real world I write a regular column on collectibles and also publish new and established genre writers in The Whirligigzine, one of the few publications of its kind that pays its writers. Contact me if you want a copy. Let's make a deal...
You can also check out The Whirligigzine litsite for unexpected fiction and poetry continuing the tradition of
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Funny about books -- the one I'm reading as background to a SF story I'm writing that includes Wittgenstein, Turing, etc. was purchased at that huge South Of The Border place down south that everyone ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:13:00 GMT

The Birdcage - Here I Am!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HWLJZiat5I Hilarious Andy Rooney-like rambling and musing starts at 4:32. "Virginia has amazing foliage. Though I do think the foliage in Ohio is under...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:37:00 GMT

Check out this video: Is Gerald Kolpan The Fifth Beatle?

Check out this video: Is Gerald Kolpan The Fifth Beatle? I survived a rnr trivia match with this reporter dude, who's a walking encyclopedia of rock.
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:48:00 GMT

I Meet An Alt.Zines Star And SF Geek Out To Kick Singularity's Butt

Writer Jeff Somers, who has recently surfaced from the depths of alt.zines as a successful Science Fiction author (The Electric Church, The Digital Plague) falls prey to my fiendish plan to "meet him...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:27:00 GMT

Aside 1

I sat there in Cambridge, watching the planes fly over Boston, arcing up above the gold-roofed symbols of my freedom from a marriage that had crashed unceremoniously (15 year after the original ceremo...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:41:00 GMT

Summing Up, Part Two

So, yes, in the past year I have gone more to established lit -- Malcolm Gladwell, a renewed (though significantly slighter than in my teens) interest in Updike... John Cheever (short stories, The Let...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:48:00 GMT

My Sedaris Musings And I Have Landed on Rumpus.net -- Its a Christmas miracle!

J.D. Finch Spends Christmas with David Sedaris December 25th, 2008 Well, through a series of events (unfortunate or not, depending upon your point of view) I am spending Christmas with David Sed...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Summing Up, Part One

Well I can be either one of those people who do a year end ten best list, or one who complains about all the year end ten best lists. Or I can be neither, and just dump info about what went on in a ba...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:25:00 GMT

Wanted, Dead And Alive

It would be nice to know what really went on between writers in an earlier day -- you know, the way we know that Jon Franzen was buddies with David Foster Wallace or that actor Rip Torn once took a ha...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:33:00 GMT

Freshly archived robandjackamerica show at Blogtalk Radio

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/robjack-america/blog/... Jack Henry talks about a recent post about Print On Demand at Outsider Writers; has amazing poet George Wallace as a guest; gets call-ins fr...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:50:00 GMT