Showing posts with label Ashland Beacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashland Beacon. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Black and White and Read Online


It’s been a while since I posted about my newspaper column. I’ve written a weekly humor column for a local paper, The Greater Ashland Beacon, for the last four or five years (I lose track, but my wife has saved all the columns, so one day I’ll add it up).

Anyway, this week’s column is an adventure of the Argillite Secret Service. You can go here to read it for free. It’s on page two every week.

The Beacon has the last several years of the column archived on their site.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Thursday Update




Over at I Was A Bronze Age Boy, I review the new LADY ACTION book by Ron Fortier. 

If you scroll down, you can find a brief writing update.

Also, this week in the Ashland Beacon, I present a primer for cities in naming festivals. It's on page 2.

While you're browsing the Beacon site you can find video of me acting rather undignified for a man of my advanced years.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Painted and Inked

This week's column in the freakin' Ashland Beacon explains what happened when I fell under the evil influence of Philip Stewart at Russell Railroad Days. It's on page 2.







Friday, January 16, 2015

Double-Naught Seven is Back

Discover an untold take of the Argillite Secret Service in my column this week in the freakin' Ashland Beacon. It's on page 2


Tuesday, January 06, 2015

With One Magic Word...

...And that word is Kapooyah!  It can turn your life around, transform bad times into good and make hair grow where it should. 

Find out more about these sorcerous syllables in my column this week in the freakin' Ashland Beacon. It's on page 2.

 

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Markstradomus Predicts!



My predictions for 2015 are in this week's Ashland Beacon, on page 2. As a bonus, I recap my predictions for 2014. What's that? You don't remember my 2014 predictions? As if I just made them up days ago? 

Ha ha. Really, get that memory checked,

Be amazed by reading it online now. 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Of Possible Interest

Last weekend I participated in a local Halloween Storytelling Festival. I wrote a children's ghost story for the event and read it live, along with Tammie Womack and Geoff Moore providing award-worthy performances in bringing two of the characters alive.



It seemed to go over well. I've enjoyed every children's or YA piece I've written, and I find myself wondering why I don't produce more of it.

I have two YA book series I would like to write. It's a matter of getting proposals and actual first volumes written. Which will come after I finish up a number of other projects.

Meanwhile, the story I wrote, "The Ghost and the Constable" is my column in this week's Ashland Beacon. You can read it here on page 2.

Also, Dave Wilbanks and I recently chatted about the beginning of our writing relationship. He's put the conversation up on his blog. If you like this sort of thing, please let one of us know and we'll share more if it.


Thursday, September 18, 2014

A.S.S. Update


 In this week's column for the Freakin' Ashland Beacon, I share a new escapade of the Argillite Secret Service. As always, it's on page 2. You can read it here.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

News From The Future

The secrets are revealed this week in my newspaper column in the Ashland Beacon. It's on page 2! Read it here.


Thursday, August 21, 2014

Reader Mail


I answer it in this week's column in the freakin' Ashland Beacon. You can read it online. It's on page 2.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Incredible Bulk VS Agents of S.H.E.M.P.




The carnage takes place in this week's Ashland Beacon. It's on page 2. You can read it here.


Sunday, March 30, 2014

Thank Ya, Thank Ya Very Much



A call from Elvis is the topic of this week's column in the Ashland Beacon.

It's on page 2 and you can read it here.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Still Alive

I'm just very busy. I'll try to do a catch-up post this weekend. Meanwhile, my latest column in the Ashland Beacon is a case from my days as a private dick (as opposed to, I suppose, a public dick). It's right here on page 2.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Mark In Mayberry



Even though I haven't posted in a while, my Department of Justice column continues to appear each week in the Ashland Beacon.

In this week's edition, I recall a recent trip to Mayberry, where things have definitely not remained the same. You an read it here on page 2.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

In Case You're Interested

My column in this week's Ashland Beacon is a script for a new TV show about the inner workings of my favorite little newspaper. You can check it out on page 2.

On Tuesday, that edition moves to the archives and in the new issue, I'll have a special column about my 31st wedding anniversary.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Links







My latest column for Horror Word is mostly about the writing of Dead Earth: Sanctuary. You can read it here.

In this week's column for the Ashland Beacon, I try to answer reader mail. It's on page 2.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Nothing Butt The Truth


My column in this week's Freakin' Ashland Beacon is all about the true, totally non-embellished story of my butt surgery from some years ago. Yes, I once again unselfishly make an ass of myself for you, my readers. Read all about it on page 2 by clicking here.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

A New Beginning


 My first column of the year for The Freakin' Ashland Beacon, and my first under my exciting new week-to-week contract, is up now. You can read it here. It's on page 2.

Friday, December 28, 2012

New Contract


Read about it in this week's column in the Ashland Beacon, along with my message to the Mayans. It's all on page 2.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

If I Ran the Holidays, and Other Festive Thoughts


Hey, bros and bro-ettes!

It's time for my weekly column in the Ashland Beacon, festooned with squishy holiday goodness.

You can check it out in its usual spot on page two of the paper. But take care--whatever is read cannot be unread. At least not without a sizable amount of alcohol