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Milt Gross, Comic Strip Maestro

Criterion & Chill 6: Detour, The Naked City, Panic In The Streets

Will Eisner’s “A Contract With God”

Horror Comics Of The Eisenhower Era Were Even More Bananas Than Joe McCarthy

Criterion & Chill 5: Bell, Book, & Candle, Unfaithfully Yours, The Last Detail

Swell Maps— A Band So Obscure They Haven’t Even Heard Of Themselves

Criterion & Chill 4: Underrated Hitchcock Pictures

Apparently, Ladies Can Write

Criterion & Chill 3: Sans Soleil, La Jetee, Nuts In May

My Short Story Writing Process, Blow By Riveting Blow

Copying Your Aged Ancestors

Criterion & Chill 2– The Big Con, The Big Romantic Comedy Debate, & The Big Bernard Herrmann Serial Killer Soundtrack That Isn’t “Psycho”

Moral Calculus ADHD

Frasier Has Returned To The Building

Some Brutally Hilarious Writing From Ambrose Bierce

Criterion & Chill 1– Jackie Chan, Epic Eyebrows, Epaulettes, And Disturbed Himalayan Nuns

Some Possible Changes To My Substack, Possibly On The Way (Maybe— Let’s Not Rush Into This)

My Sandbar Moment

“Criminal” On Netflix

A Profitable Visit To The Gym

America Is Supposed To Be What, Exactly? Do We Even Know Any More?

If Six Purple Hazes Turned Out To Be Nine

Inside The Pulse-Pounding High-Wire Act Of Professional Standing-Clapping

Style Is Everything

Today’s Psychedelic Dog Owner

Merrill Markoe: An Appreciation

Invite your friends to read HOT PLATE! Print Edition. (Please— I’m begging you!)

Chris Christie, Gruffly And Peevishly Explained

Crazy Talk

Short Stories Are Music: Joseph Payne Brennan, Richard Matheson, Naguib Mahfouz

Kurt Vonnegut’s Ashtray Lyricism

Three Stories: Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Bowen, & Diane Williams

Big Ears Music Festival Report, Part Three

Liars, Lying, and Laws

Big Ears part two

Join me on Notes.

Big Ears Music Festival 2023 (part one)

Nothing Good Ever Comes From Wedging

Howard Hawks: The People’s Auteur Director

Red Meat For Elitists

GOP Coke Zero

When The Clown Car Catches The Dog

More Flexible In 2023!