07/12/25 11:24
In which I voice a videogame trailer (and the same content within the game) for a spoooky student game project: Circus Macabre
Voiceover Work...
06/30/25 17:12
More life updates since last I graced this journal. Most critically, my day job of 14 years, Reviewed, laid off the entire staff and "closed", only to miraculously be revived a month later, freshly shorn of all us pesky unionized employees, whilst rehiring back all the management as regular (non-union) writers for the content mill it has become.
Whilst I search for reliable employment, I have been venturing into voiceover work with more serious focus. A few of the projects I've been involved in that have gone live:
Wild Coin Hunting: A nice little not-quite-self-help audiobook, and a gentle start to the business of audiobook narration (with more to come!)
The Crawling World: A narrative podcast written by Thomas Barker. On hiatus now, hopefully to be restarted soon.
You MUST listen to RFC 2119: An acquaintance of an old work friend asked me to narrate a thing. Just about the driest piece of technical writing I’ve ever encountered, read, at his request, in the most irritating, “God I just want to punch this guy” voice I could muster. Enjoy, if you so choose.
Whilst I search for reliable employment, I have been venturing into voiceover work with more serious focus. A few of the projects I've been involved in that have gone live:
Wild Coin Hunting: A nice little not-quite-self-help audiobook, and a gentle start to the business of audiobook narration (with more to come!)
The Crawling World: A narrative podcast written by Thomas Barker. On hiatus now, hopefully to be restarted soon.
You MUST listen to RFC 2119: An acquaintance of an old work friend asked me to narrate a thing. Just about the driest piece of technical writing I’ve ever encountered, read, at his request, in the most irritating, “God I just want to punch this guy” voice I could muster. Enjoy, if you so choose.
Also! PMRP the Podcast!
01/18/24 12:28
You can occasionally hear my voice among the crowd at the Post-Meridian Radio Players.
And now you don't have to schlep to some random place in Somerville, MA to hear all the things they've done over the years!
Behold, PMRP: The Podcast! Published bi-weekly, and (very) occasionally featuring yours truly.
And now you don't have to schlep to some random place in Somerville, MA to hear all the things they've done over the years!
Behold, PMRP: The Podcast! Published bi-weekly, and (very) occasionally featuring yours truly.
Not much scribbling these days...
01/18/24 12:08
…Not that I feel ready to share with anyone. But an entry nonetheless, of a sort.
I've mentioned elsewhere that occasionally I get invited to write something for Reviewed. Well, perhaps to their regret, they asked me once again.
My review, published today, of Good Counsel
Thank you to Anthony Papillarambil for all his work wrangling my words into a readable format, and to Tim Renzi for TRYING to make me look good on camera. (A Herculean feat, but he made the best of what *gestures to body* THIS offered him to work with.)
I've mentioned elsewhere that occasionally I get invited to write something for Reviewed. Well, perhaps to their regret, they asked me once again.
My review, published today, of Good Counsel
Thank you to Anthony Papillarambil for all his work wrangling my words into a readable format, and to Tim Renzi for TRYING to make me look good on camera. (A Herculean feat, but he made the best of what *gestures to body* THIS offered him to work with.)
Four years gone…
02/27/23 12:00
…And I am back again. Well, was.
A whole lot has changed since I was last "properly" onstage. I had a stroke (yay!) which put me mostly out of commission for a year. Then, just as I was about to get back in the saddle, in March off 2020, SOMETHING happened that put the kibosh on that. The last three years have seen, if not the destruction of Boston-area theater, at the very least a HUGE struggle for it to stay viably afloat, to the point where even some institutions I thought would never go away in my lifetime, are in the process of dissolving…
All that is not to say I've done NOTHING creative in the past four years. Performances with the Post-Meridian Radio Players, unusual gigs for History Alive!, a last-minute call-up for a filmed staging of Phoebe Roberts's Gentlemen Never Tell, as well as other projects in the works, and occasional pecking at my own middling efforts (though nothing to show for it at present).
But this was the first time, in over four years, that I felt fully back onstage. It felt good. Not floods of tears, oh-my-God-I-missed-you-so-muhuhuuuuuch good, but it did feel...right. Here's hoping it's not another four years before I make it back in front of people again.
A whole lot has changed since I was last "properly" onstage. I had a stroke (yay!) which put me mostly out of commission for a year. Then, just as I was about to get back in the saddle, in March off 2020, SOMETHING happened that put the kibosh on that. The last three years have seen, if not the destruction of Boston-area theater, at the very least a HUGE struggle for it to stay viably afloat, to the point where even some institutions I thought would never go away in my lifetime, are in the process of dissolving…
All that is not to say I've done NOTHING creative in the past four years. Performances with the Post-Meridian Radio Players, unusual gigs for History Alive!, a last-minute call-up for a filmed staging of Phoebe Roberts's Gentlemen Never Tell, as well as other projects in the works, and occasional pecking at my own middling efforts (though nothing to show for it at present).
But this was the first time, in over four years, that I felt fully back onstage. It felt good. Not floods of tears, oh-my-God-I-missed-you-so-muhuhuuuuuch good, but it did feel...right. Here's hoping it's not another four years before I make it back in front of people again.
"The most awkward thing..."
04/23/21 22:48
The most awkward thing
Was the fact that I
Kept looking at you
That’s how I knew
That you
Never really looked at me
Except once
When I kindly caught you
In the fact that you
Had stopped talking to me
And were just talking
And all it took was my wry
“Fair enough”
For you to notice
Look
Lock eyes for the first time
Blush as I teased you with a glance
And laugh, awkwardly
At which point we
Kindly excused ourselves
From one another
To go forth and try again
With someone else
Was the fact that I
Kept looking at you
That’s how I knew
That you
Never really looked at me
Except once
When I kindly caught you
In the fact that you
Had stopped talking to me
And were just talking
And all it took was my wry
“Fair enough”
For you to notice
Look
Lock eyes for the first time
Blush as I teased you with a glance
And laugh, awkwardly
At which point we
Kindly excused ourselves
From one another
To go forth and try again
With someone else
"You have an apple face..."
12/01/20 22:21
You have an apple face
I don't know how better to describe it
I like your apple features, the crispness of them
I like your short, sharp apple laugh
Please understand me, this is not a come-on
I'm not saying I want to eat your face
Not comparing you to forbidden fruit
Non, Magritte, ceci n'est pas une pomme, vraiment
And yet I take joy in regarding you
Your brown apple hair pulled tight against your scalp
Your dark apple eyes set deep
Behind brown apple cheeks
And I will never tell you this
Not any part of it, I think
I will simply revel in the fact
That you exist, oblivious to what you are
Apple-faced woman
Unique in my perception
I don't know how better to describe it
I like your apple features, the crispness of them
I like your short, sharp apple laugh
Please understand me, this is not a come-on
I'm not saying I want to eat your face
Not comparing you to forbidden fruit
Non, Magritte, ceci n'est pas une pomme, vraiment
And yet I take joy in regarding you
Your brown apple hair pulled tight against your scalp
Your dark apple eyes set deep
Behind brown apple cheeks
And I will never tell you this
Not any part of it, I think
I will simply revel in the fact
That you exist, oblivious to what you are
Apple-faced woman
Unique in my perception
"And you said..."
10/30/20 22:01
And you said
"Let me know
If you need anything"
And I, with longing
Long suppressed
Replied "I will"
But you and I know
What I meant was
"I won't, not ever again"
We've both been wounded
Too many times for that
And I lived
And you lived
And you likely didn't think of me
Once in those two weeks
And that's okay
But sometimes
In the dark
Against my will
I'm there again
Laughing with you
In the corner
Thinking that
Maybe
Just maybe
You're the one
And that…
That will always hurt
"Let me know
If you need anything"
And I, with longing
Long suppressed
Replied "I will"
But you and I know
What I meant was
"I won't, not ever again"
We've both been wounded
Too many times for that
And I lived
And you lived
And you likely didn't think of me
Once in those two weeks
And that's okay
But sometimes
In the dark
Against my will
I'm there again
Laughing with you
In the corner
Thinking that
Maybe
Just maybe
You're the one
And that…
That will always hurt
A note regarding older entries
01/02/20 12:00
The dates of everything past this point are often questionable, and sometimes flat out wrong. I've owned a number of computers across the time period covered, and some of the creation dates changed as I re-saved a piece of writing in a new / more stable format. The dates reflect the last known creation date I had available. Everything with a title in quotes never had a title to begin with, and many of those lack definite writing dates as well. The previous four, for instance, were all almost certainly written before New Years Day, possibly years before. I didn't keep track… So take them with a grain of salt!
"It will be better..."
01/01/20 19:41
It will be better
Science has proven it
If you sit down, pen in hand
And tell yourself, "Self,
It will be better,"
Then as sure as oxygen loves hydrogen
As sure as the stars burning in space
It must, mathematically, improve
You will not believe this, naturally
The unreconstructed lizard
At the base of your skull
Can no more comprehend the cosmos
Than a toad can tell you the time
And only through force and practice
Can the thinky bits behind your brow
Maintain your grip on reality and tell you
It will be better
It will be better
Believe you, me, It will be better
Science has proven it
If you sit down, pen in hand
And tell yourself, "Self,
It will be better,"
Then as sure as oxygen loves hydrogen
As sure as the stars burning in space
It must, mathematically, improve
You will not believe this, naturally
The unreconstructed lizard
At the base of your skull
Can no more comprehend the cosmos
Than a toad can tell you the time
And only through force and practice
Can the thinky bits behind your brow
Maintain your grip on reality and tell you
It will be better
It will be better
Believe you, me, It will be better