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Chet

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About Me

I'm primarily a writer, with about two dozen books and over a hundred short stories published since 1986, when my first novel appeared. I write primarily fiction, though I've had non-fiction, children's books, and graphic novels appear under my name. I seem to have difficulty staying away from the darker side of human nature in my writing. and am probably best known (when known at all) for my horror and suspense fiction.I started out as an actor in both musical theatre and plays, and drifted into writing as a roundabout result of it. In the past year or so I've gotten involved in acting again, and have been enjoying the collaborative aspects of theatre, after having been in such an isolated career as writing for so many years. I've also been writing plays, but don't write nearly enough. Call me lazy. Call me distracted. Call me a taxi.

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My Blog

Bob Dylan box set -- what it SHOULD have been...

DYLAN (Box Set: The Chet Selection)   When the recent 3-disc set of Bob Dylan's career retrospective (to date) came out a couple months ago, I was disappointed, not so much that there were no new...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:24:00 GMT

Generation Q

A member of "Generation Q" cued me in to Thomas Friedman's piece of the same name in the NY Times, in which he looks at the twenty-somethings who he finds "much more optimistic and idealisti...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:02:00 GMT

"Oh No, Not Me" -- David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World"

I'd never paid much attention to David Bowie. When he was becoming famous in the early 70's, I had lost interest in rock and was delving into classical music, still playing my Doors and Janis and Beat...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:36:00 GMT

Best Picture?

I've only seen four of the five nominated films for Best Picture this year (haven't seen Eastwood's yet), so here's my take, as though Hollywood is waiting for it... LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a cute fil...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:38:00 GMT

Speak up! I can't hear you over this damned orchestra!

I went to a wonderful concert last night at Elizabethtown College. The college choir sang a few numbers, the string section of the Lancaster Symphony played Bartok's Divertimento for Strings, which I ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:41:00 GMT

Cervical Cancer Vaccine & "Parental Rights"

Here's the good news: there's a vaccine which, when given to girls before puberty begins, protects against cervical cancer.Here's the bad news: many right-wing socially conservative groups&n...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:06:00 GMT

Can Evangelicals Evolve?

It seems that Evangelical Christians in Kenya want to keep "Turkana Boy," which is considered "the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found," locked away in Kenya's national museum rat...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:16:00 GMT

"No problem..." Damn straight!

There's been a pernicious little inroad in a number of the restaurants that my wife and I frequent. It's that simple (and mindless) phrase, "No problem." It seems that if we ask for anything, be it a ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:56:00 GMT

Grammy Oddities

The Grammys are coming up, and I really don't care all that much. The Oscars are the only award show I consistently watch. But I was intrigued by a recent list in Rolling Stone of the all-ti...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:43:00 GMT

Why Dylan Is God -- the Bobster and I

The only time I've ever blogged before is when I was part of a writers' blog that required me to write an essay a month about writing. I lasted about four months until the day came when I realized I h...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:26:00 GMT