
The Waif from Space: an interview with Carole Ann Ford
Vworp Vworp! Magazine, 2023
Sixty years after she began her role as the Doctor’s first travelling companion, Carole Ann Ford’s eyes still gleam with vivacity, though the depth of her experience also shines through.
The original cast and crew of Doctor Who all had their own versions of the early days, and with a cheerful smile Carole chuckles that those stories “change every time.” (read more)

On a String and a Prayer: the sound design of Doctor Who
Vworp Vworp! Magazine, 2023
“Where does a time machine go?” Brian Hodgson asked himself. “Does it shoot up in the air? Does it go sideways?”
The end result for that very first episode of Doctor Who in 1963 – the quintessential wheezing, groaning sound of a dematerialising TARDIS – is still in use 60 years later.
Hodgson was one of the original sound designers at the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop… (read more)

“Planet of the Ood” Target novel review
Doctor Who Magazine, August 2023
Come take a deep dive from an industrial gantry into the inner workings of the Ood revolution. In the Target novelization of The Planet of the Ood, starring the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, author Keith Temple expands on the concepts from his original screenplay fifteen years after its initial air date, burrowing further into the political and social significance to good effect. (read more)

Keeping the Eighth: a history of the Doctor Who EDA novels
Whotopia Magazine, December 2022
The Eighth Doctor Adventure novels put the “wild” in the Wilderness Years.
The 1996 Doctor Who TV movie may have failed to revive the show, but it spawned an abundance of media featuring Paul McGann’s Doctor, from comic strips in Radio Times and Doctor Who Magazine to an ongoing series of Big Finish audios.
The Eighth Doctor’s stories were often risque and experimental compared to the original TV series, and the 73 Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDA) novels were no exception. (read more)

In Zimbabwe, It’s Crisis as Usual
Reason Magazine, June 2020
“Zimbabweans are heartbreakers, trust you me,” drawls Prince Matsika as he reworks a hand-strung necklace in front of his stall at an outdoor city market. People bustle by, but few even glance at the beaded trinkets and wooden crafts crowded onto tables and baskets. With rapidly rising inflation and food shortages across the country, now only the wealthy and foreign tourists can afford his wares.” (read more)

Adventures of a Professional Vagabond
The Nugget Newspaper, 6 October 2020
Right now I should be playing Annie Oakley in the Rocky Mountains, or a bawdy wench in a Renaissance village — but instead of planning a future of the past, the pandemic has presently plunked me down in Sisters. I’m a professional vagabond who migrates between Jeep tours in Colorado and working on the Renaissance faire circuit in the eternal project that is my vintage Airstream. COVID has clipped my wings. (read more)

The Berlin Brawl: a fight for Berlin’s alternative scene
The Philadelphia Secret Admirer, February, 2018
My first experience of Berlin was a whirlwind: my tutu flapping in the summer breeze as I peddled past gaggles of street musicians on my way to avant-garde gallery openings; swilling beer with punk rockers on picnic tables in front of late-night convenience stores as we ogled ostentatious nightclubbers and peculiar partygoers parading down the street; the glory of art scrawled on every wall and street corner. (read more)

Folk Artists vs. the State
Reason Magazine, February 2016
(reprinted in the Utne Reader, summer 2016)
Hanging a painting in your living room isn’t likely to inspire a visit from the county zoning board. You may get away with a collection of garden gnomes in your front yard, especially if you live in the countryside. But start artistically upending antique trucks in your lawn or constructing a 16-story stone castle and you’re almost certain to find yourself mummified in red tape. (read more)

The Pie in the Face: Whipping America Into a Frenzy
The Philadelphia Secret Admirer, September 2018
No matter how you throw it, an explosion of custard and whipped cream stimulates something deeply embedded in the American psyche. From Charlie Chaplin to political activism, the impact of the pie in the face on our culture is undeniable.
This gag likely made its first splash on the vaudeville stage around the turn of the last century, though it’s hard to pin down its exact time and date of birth. From vaudeville the pie probably flew into silent films and then the circus; performers often moved seamlessly between the three. (read more)

Smoke creates dire air quality
The Nugget Newspaper, 17 September 2020
The hazardous air quality in Sisters — and much of the western U.S. — over the past week has been apparent from the permanent haze across town.
When the Air Quality Index (AQI) is rated as hazardous or unhealthy, “everybody should be staying indoors as much as possible” said Laura Gleim, spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (read more)

The good Doctor is ready for you
Philipsburg Mail, 27 June 2013
“I practice at the post office,” said “Doc” Stu Pritchard, MD. (read more)