Let's get out of here! That's a line that you will hear in movies. A lot. A man stealing a car might say it. Or someone trying to escape from a kaiju. Or a drug-addled lawyer wanting to leave a second...

David used to be a boy scout. Don't say it too loud. He is not ashamed of it, but you just don't need to be so loud about it, dig? In 1989, when he was 19, he participated in his last scouting event....

What can you learn from looking deeply into the work of another writer?We hope a lot.James Kochalka is a very prolific creator of comics and graphic novels. Many of them are  for children, some are decidedly...

A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you.   It is a dust devil of absurdist...

This is a breathless story told in 105 run-on sentences about a book scout named Benjamin who can hear the pleadings of used books and has been successful but then he gets involved in a cult looking for...

 Can you write an entire book as one text a day?  Sure. You are writing to one audience member at a time. You can create interesting thing. You can push yourself as a writer in this method.  David Macpherson...

Santa Claus comes in roaring drunk at the Jewish Nursing Home.Father Death and Father Life walk hand in hand down the streets of the city.A variety of performance artists practice their calling during...

A hodgepodgeA miscellany. A jumble.A mishmash.A patchwork.More stuff about things.This book is a collection of pieces I had hanging around the harddrive with no place to go. They are random flash fiction...

What makes you a real writer? When some hapless hack asks you to write a blurb for their book. Ha! Suckers! With that in mind, David Macpherson must be a real writer. He wrote a lot of blurbs. He promises...

Pat is the Eternal Bartender. He has worked at juke joints, mead halls, and floating barges filled with beer. As long as there have been public places to drink, Pat has been there with his white shirt...

Cyborg 2087 was a 1966 movie with Miichael Rennie. It is not the most well known of science fiction movies.  That does not mean it isn't good, just that it isn't recognized. One of the things it is known...

Do want a new bar?  Do you want a place where everyone knows your name? Whoah. That's kind of creepy. Why does everyone need to know your name? That is super intrusive. It's best to go to a bar where...

Just a Pose is a collection of short, unrelated writings that were all inspired by the images in the Summer 2024 issue of a particular art magazine.  This is a small zine of improvisational writing. Whatever...

What's the best part of a hardboiled detective yarm? Is it the drunk detective rooting around for the solution? Is it the relentless mood of impending doom? Or could it be the confession? The confession...

Bookcases lie in wait. They are teeming with books. Some of them you have read. Some of them you were given as gifts. Other books were bought with enthusiasm and then ignored. Forgotten. Bookcases tell...

How do you write every day? For David Macpherson, he has not missed a day of writing in five years. Every day in those years, he has written at least 200 words a day. It is not a lot of words, but when...

In two consecutive Issues of Archie Madhouse in 1967, there were criminals who had weaponized guitars. The one from issue 87 said it was a 50 Weapon Guitar.  A 50 Weapon Guitar? That is a very odd and...

Who do you call a criminal? It can't be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well? The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials...

Welcome to the world of crap you keep instead of throwing out.It's the stuff that you love to have around you but are not sure why.There are over fifty essays about the little things in life in this book....

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The...

This is a history of a journey. Or is it? Do we get anywhere? Do we see anything we could not see from just looking in the mirror?  Each step of the journey is a drought with image and uncertainty. This...

Is there fate or do you have control of your life? Mr. Lemon starts every day waiting for someone to come by and give him a list.  Mr. Lemon's life is to go down the list. The list tells him to do things...

Who is the killer? Who can it be? Can it be the friend? The lover? The butler? The drunken policeman? All of them are possibly the killer. We don't know. Really. But we have a list of possible suspects....

What's the one thing we know about Death?  He certainly gets around.  He has to travel all over the place. He is not on a pale horse. He is on ride-share. He takes trains and trucks. He rides up escalators...

What are the Pops you wish existed?  You collect, but you wish there were special ones.  This book tells you of the ones that should have been.  There is the Henry the VIII and his Wives Pops. We have...

Before David started working at schools as a behavior specialist, he was a student like everyone else. This collection of five short essays are a memoir of his time in high school in the suburbs of New...

Diver Doug is a zinester. He makes home-made magazines. He plays his mandolin. He creates clay figurines. He works in pet shops and sleeps on the couches of friends or acquaintances. He is a free spirit...

Sometimes a book about a film can be a comprehensive and diligent study of the movie. Other times, a book about film is no more than a dumb dare. This is one of those. David Macpherson, writer of obscure...

Finding a place to live is tough. There isn't a lot of places available, and when they are, they are crazy expensive. A group of punks and drop-outs have discovered the decent enough place to live: in...

What is the ultimate goal of giving money to artists? Is it more than just making sure the artist doesn't go hungry?  Is this the only way that art can be made, by throwing coins in a guitar case or pledging...