New Book Alert – THE BUTCHER & THE BUTTERFLY – coming soon
COMING IN NOVEMBER! THE BUTCHER AND THE BUTTERFLY BACKGROUND: I met the brilliant and eccentric painter Noel Rockmore in early 1990 at Johnny White’s, a since-closed, infamous French Quarter dive bar, on my first visit to New Orleans. We watched a boxing match together there one evening. We had a great time. He was quite […]
THE HOT DOG DIARIES – coming soon
“You know what you ought to do, Al?” If Al Bonner, 40-year owner of Gene’s Beer Garden in Morgantown, WV, had a dollar for every time someone said that to him about Gene’s, he’d be a millionaire. He’s generally ignored or never got around to addressing all the suggestions over the years. But there have […]
I’M NOT JIM ANTONINI…
After reading a couple of my books, an old friend from my WVU pharmacy school days reached out to me. He said my books opened a ‘floodgate of memories’. We messaged back and forth on Facebook a few times and caught up on each other’s lives. Then not having heard from him for a couple […]