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Going Back to Malibu Jack's

  One of Malibu Jack's matchbooks. Source:  Reddit .  The reader's willing suspension of disbelief depends on believable detail, driven by plot and characterization. I have the perfect locus of nostalgia and a watershed moment when a happy time and place crashed, burned and ended. First, the location. I and my dear friend, artist, Chris Dorosz , keep talking about Malibu Jack's, a California-style restaurant which opened in 1985 in the ByWard Market in Ottawa, Canada . Picture this:  Lost Boys  and  Less than Zero  were in cinemas;  Miami Vice  was on the television. Everything was covered with neon and palm trees. Malibu Jack's tapped into the fad and Ottawa's teenagers converged there for crab croissant sandwiches, cheeseburgers, homemade potato chips and tacos. People remember the restaurant on  Reddit ; and some of its recipes are still circulating online . One of the busboys, Stephen Beckta, was so impressed by his experience there ...
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Podcast #2: Dark Matter Literature

 


Check out the second episode in my AI-generated podcast on the New Mythology for the New Millennium. The playlist is here. The podcast is based on an essay I wrote about my work, which I then submitted to Google's AI. The AI then reconfigured the essay into a podcast format. The essay concerns the dark matter goddess character, aka Isis, and dark matter concept which sit at the heart of my novels-in-progress, Isis Chrysalis and Ink of the Palimpsest.

Isis Chrysalis concerns the actual history of the dark matter goddess, with stories set in the past, present and future. Ink of the Palimpsest is about a group of connected contemporary characters who are living in a reality affected by the dark matter goddess storyline.

My Pinterest boards were set up to collect images which resonated with my vision for each of these books, as well as my poetry.

See my Pinterest board for Isis.

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