LAKEHURST: The Facebook Page

LAKEHURST: The Facebook Page

Posted inUncategorized, Works by Eric
Hey, not fer nuthin', but my favorite little Pine Barrens town happens to have a Facebook page, and it happens to have been started by yours truly, and it happens to have all sorts of awesome pictures and facts from this great book about Lakehurst. In fact, the page has been going for some time now, and it's full of AWESOME memories and pictures and general stuff from in and around Lakehurst, like airships, the Hindenburg disaster, life in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, places to drink great New Jersey beer, and loads more. So hey, be cool and click…
Hitchcock's Villains

My new book comes out soon…

Posted inAlfred Hitchcock, Films, Works by Eric, Writing
... so that's kind of cool. The follow-up to A Year of Hitchcock is due out in, damn, just a few weeks! Called Hitchcock's Villains: Murders, Maniacs and Mother Issues, this collaboration with Jim McDevitt is a full exploration of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest villains, what makes them tick, the themes that drive the darkness in his movies, and of Hitchcock's own psyche. I think it's pretty great. This will be my fifth book, collaborative or otherwise, with a sixth hopefully coming out next year in ebook form via the Philadelphia Weekly. (That project is still up in the air.) The…
I think I’m a beer writer now…

I think I’m a beer writer now…

Posted inCraft Beer, Works by Eric, Writing
Way back when I first wrote Stuff Every Husband Should Know and contributed to Geek Wisdom, I pitched the idea of doing a beer book to my editor at Quirk Books. I can kinda write, and I like beer, so why not bring the two together for a beer book? I was given a dose of reality. You have no history of beer writing, he said, so pitching a beer book would be difficult. Made sense. I may write, but that doesn't mean I could suddenly do a great book on growing great tulips. (I could.) I needed experience. So…
Re-Watching the Sopranos – Season 5

Re-Watching the Sopranos – Season 5

Posted inTelevision
I put my Sopranos series on hold for a while simply because I got busy, but with the recent death of James Gandolfini, it seems appropriate to pick up where I left off. So here are my thoughts on revisiting The Sopranos season 5 many years later. As always, this is written assuming you have watched the season, so SPOILERS ALERTS apply. At the time I first watched this, I felt this was one of the stronger seasons. I still think so. In a way it's more fragmented than previous seasons, with many short arcs rather than several large arcs (though those…
Guess I’m supposed to be blogging about stuff

Guess I’m supposed to be blogging about stuff

Posted inRandom Musings, Rants, Writing
Blogs are like great weights affixed to your neck, or rather, like a 200-pound sets of car keys. You don't want to carry the damn things around, but the car won't start without them. It's been a while since I've blogged here. Probably should have stayed current. Should have been updating all along. Could have talked about this project or that, or merely talked about James Gandolfini passing away and why Bruce Springsteen is probably better than I give him credit for and why the Akira manga is crazy good. Yet the truth is, I'd rather be working on new…