The most common response I get to that title is: "You think that's funny?" The answer I'd really like to give you is the Joe Pesci answer: "Funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you?" But the answer I will give you (and Joe) is: Yes, I do, or I wouldn't have made it the title of this collection of short humorous essays, ludicrous lists, satirical stories and even (shudder) a couple parodic poems. Yes, the answer is Yes. There is only one other word I'd like to say about this c...

"A very impressive must-read for serious PKD readers...I literally could not put this book down. Reading the interview, you get the uncanny sensation that you're sitting in the room rapping with PKD himself." --Science Fiction Chronicle. This exceptional anthology includes over eight hours of interviews with noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick, including the most complete and personal account of his March, 1974, "mystical experiences," plus numerous supplementary essays, including ...

Alec Smart Mystery #3. "Fans of Donald E. Westlake will love this wild comic caper!" –ComiCaper. When a 13-year-old comic book magnate hires detective Alec Smart to find a rare Batman book stolen from his collection, the curious request sends the dysfunctional duo on an odd odyssey navigating the dangerous straits of chaotic comic book conventions, crooked dealers and crazed parents...one of whom is determined to bed him, and the other, to run him down with his car. And when Smart isn't be...

The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the best unknown movies (and a few TV shows) available on demand and on DVD.We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu Plus... Thousands and thousands of movies are available at your fingertips. But with so many titles, the big question remains: How do you find a GOOD movie?The answer: KILLER B's: THE HIVE which combines the contents of KILLER B'...

A Comedy Tonight! Treat yourself to a quartet of comic plays you'll never see on stage (unless you attended an early performance). "Fourplay" collects scripts for two three-act comedies and two one-act farces ("A Pair of Shorts") first staged by San Jose's famous Stage One performance company in the early '90s. Bonus material includes the script for a never-performed fifth play—a one-act farce to be staged in the theater of your mind. If you're a fan of The Marx Brothers, you'll love "A Ni...

The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the 123 best unknown action, thriller, suspense and mystery movies available on demand and on DVD, excerpted from KILLER B's Volumes 1 & 2.We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu Plus... Thousands and thousands of movies are available at your fingertips. But with so many titles, the big question remains: How do you find a GOOD movie?The answer...

AN URGENT LETTER FROM SANTA CLAUS: Dear Aging Children: You and I both know that in your heart of hearts you still believe in me...or how could I continue to exist? That's precisely the existential threat I face when a Reality Plague begins infecting the entire Land of Imagination, threatening to overwhelm us with rotten reality and extinguish fantasy altogether, turning Earth into a dull, gray place. Like Kansas! This fantaphage might even be the villainous nemesis behind OzCo's attempted...

The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the best unknown amusing movies available on demand, excerpted from KILLER B's Vols. 1 & 2. Discover 101 of the wittiest, quirkiest, most low-key, charming and understated comedies you've (probably) never seen. We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu Plus... Thousands and thousands of movies are available at your fingertips. But with so many titles, the big q...

The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the best unknown, most insanely crazy comedies available on demand and on DVD, excerpted from KILLER B's Vols. 1 & 2. Discover 101 of the wildest, loudest, darkest, edgiest, most madcap, anarchic, rowdy, raucous, exaggerated, over the top, boisterous, twisted, outrageous, uproarious, and just plain crazy comedy movies you've (probably) never seen. We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix...

Borges. Nabokov. Vonnegut. Joyce. They all want the author of this book dead. (As do Pynchon, Barthelme, Auster, Wallace, Heller, Barth, Beckett, Calvino, Lem and DeLillo. Among others.) Why? Because "Exemplary Lives of Impossible Men" is the apex of the postmodern novel—the apogee and apotheosis, the capstone and culmination of the literary style they pioneered…written by a hack who appropriated and executed all their favorite literary tricks. (Could the word "executed" have more than one...

Summer 1980: CADDYSHACK is poised to become the highest-grossing comedy film of all time. Co-writer Doug Kenney is counting on it, so he'll have enough Tinseltown clout to launch his crowning achievement: a screwball space comedy he wants to film on location—and a movie with a budget ten times the size of most movies of the era. (Renting an entire mission of the new Space Shuttle ain't cheap!) To get all his ducks in a row in the showbiz shooting gallery, he enlists the aid of the screenwr...

We swim in a sea of celebrity—a sea that's both shallow and surprisingly wide. There are few people who don't have a "brush with fame" story in their repertoire of personal anecdotes. I've got 100...and then some. This book of short, amusing anecdotes details my "close encounters" with the famous folk I've run across, interviewed, or even occasionally befriended, including Actors (Robin Williams, Meg Ryan), Directors (Robert Wise), Star Trek cast (and creator Gene Roddenberry), Cultural Ic...