It's an experiment in fun, music and science when Mixtape Trivia hosts the annual SLSO Trivia Night fundraiser. John Henningsen and I will emcee and ask the important questions as contestants vie for prizes and the coveted title of Trivia Masters.

The Mixtape Trivia Band will perform songs as part of the question rounds, including our infamous Complete-the-Lyrics round. Larry (vocals, guitar) and John (vocals) are joined by Chris Livesay (vocals, keyboards), Chris Brown (vocals, drums), Vic Hoffmeister (vocals, bass) and Karl Dodson (electric guitar).  

After more than a year and a half in production, I've released my latest record. "My Friend Thinks You're Cute" contains 15 songs imbued with the absurdity and folk-rock fun that defines much of my music.  

To bring these songs to life, some terrific friends and musicians lent their sizeable talents: Chris Brown (drums, producing), Vic Hoffmeister (bass), Karl Dodson (guitars) and Chris Livesay (keyboards, viola, upright bass). Jill Holtzmann provided vocals on the duet "Sitting Room."

Check out this new release on Amazon, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora and wherever music is streamed.

Hotel Faux Pas' 2024 reunion show at St. Louis' Focal Point club on September 7th had audience members staring at their phones. That's because we provided a link to a website that featured the lyrics to the songs in the set list so the crowd could sing and follow along with the band. With humorous, quirky lyrics a hallmark of Hotel Faux Pas, many fans had sought out lyrics online during shows. So, we provided a QR code link to make it convenient.  

Swamp Ape Review, the national literary journal founded and produced by the MFA in creative writing students at Florida Atlantic University, recently announced the winner of the inaugural Justin Waldron Memorial Prize for Innovative Prose. My hybrid piece “A Halifax History of Curse Words” was chosen as the 2024 recipient of this esteemed prize.

Read the piece here: https://www.swampapereview.com/a-halifax-history-of-curse-words

The legendary St. Louis nightclub Off-Broadway played host to the city's wacky band of quirky funsters Hotel Faux Pas on December 16, 2023. As usual. I was joined onstage with my musical comrades Brian McClelland, Karl Dodson and Chris Brown for an evening of classic HFP hits, returning to the venue for the first time since 2001. 

May, 2023: Gifts of the Divine, is now available from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and hundreds of other streaming platforms. The new record features 16 side-splitting, knee-slapping, hum along ditties guaranteed to befuddle church elders and conservative PTO members.

Songs include "I Taught the Cat to Do My Taxes," "All the Boys Want to Read Her Sonnets," "Are We in Love Or Is This Pittsburgh?," "Bring Me the Corpse of Pope Formosus" and many more.

Bringing the songs to life, these talented musicians added their inimitable contributions: Chris Brown on drums; Vic Hoffmeister on bass; Karl Dodson on electric and acoustic guitars; and Chris Livesay on keyboards and viola.

I graduated from Lindenwood University on May 6, 2023, with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. The maturation in the two-year program is evident in these before-and-after photos.

The program allowed me to workshop and hone my novel, write several new short stories and flash fiction pieces and share feedback and ideas with likeminded creative individuals all over the country.  

Folk-pop-quirk-rock quartet Hotel Faux Pas played an auspicious public show on November 5, 2022, at the historic Gaslight Theatre in St. Louis. Joining me (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele), Brian McClelland (vocals, bass) and Karl Dodson (vocals, electric guitars) was newest member Chris Brown (drums). We plan to make this an annual event, so watch out for a fall '23 date announcement. 

The literary journal Book of Matches chose my flash fiction story "Blaze Johnny Two-Elk" for inclusion in its Issue #6, published September, 2022.

This experimental piece is comprised of four two-hundred word sentences.

Read it for yourself: https://www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/post/issue-6-of-book-of-matches-is-live