THE COLUMN:

OFFBEAT OREGON HISTORY: A weekly newspaper column that has evolved into a suite of public-history resources, including:

... a daily podcast
... a weekly RSS feed
... a Facebook page
... a Tumblr feed
... a calendar of live history shows in pubs
... a browsable Web archive (352 columns, at last count)

It's accessed through an anchor page, linked here.

THE BOOK:

WICKED PORTLAND: A book about the late-1800s underworld of Portland, Oregon, including ...

... Rascally politicians
... Saloons and gambling dens
... Naughty ladies of every description
... Shanghai artists and their victims (and would-be victims)
... Corrupt cops and mayors
... The world's dumbest-ever drug smugglers

Published by The History Press in June 2012. Here's a link to the "lost chapter" (cut from the book for lack of space); the main web site for the book is here.

AUDIOBOOKS:

PULP-LIT PRODUCTIONS is a publishing house in which I am principal partner. It specializes in annotated editions of pulp-fiction classics. Titles published to date include The John Carter of Mars Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard. Upcoming projects include The Tarzan of the Apes Duology (October 2015) and The Lost Continent (December 2015), both by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and The Novels and Novellas of H.P. Lovecraft (March 2016).

The details are here.

OTHER WRITINGS:

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS: Some published, some not, accessed through a table of contents, here.

The airplane pictured above, by the way, is the one featured in this story, which is one of the best things I've ever written. Do check it out.

ME:

ABOUT ME: Everything you need to know, and a bunch of extra stuff you don't, about Yours Truly.

SHORT NONFICTION

Tables of Content:

**Ruminations, personal essays**
Wd. count	Headline	Date(s)
500	An AR-15 shooter argues for gun control	August 2015
1,200	When did the gun fetishists take over the NRA?	June 2014
1,000	A new way to curate and tell stories in a trans-media storyworld ... and get paid?	May 2014
1,700	Japan's curse: Saving the world every few dozen years	March 2011
5,500	Who killed The Springfield News? An autopsy report	January 2011
2,000	How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cruise Ships	March 2009
1,700	See Orcas Island and Die	Nov. 2008
1,800	Centennial Farewell: Oregon's post-1959 loss of innocence	Feb. 2010

**Narrative journalism**
Wd. count	Headline	Date(s)
1,400	The Willamette Valley's cackling-goose wars	Jan. 2010
4,000	Taking flight:Two men, two planes, one dream	April 2009

**Miscellaneous**
Wd. count	Headline	Date(s)
150	O Natty Light, My Natty Light (a sonnet)	Sept. 2010
1,800	A Day at the (Livestock) Auction	Jan. 2009
2,000	Faking It: The Author as Poseur	Jan. 2010
8,600	Finn's Grumpy List: A rogue's gallery (or rather, a copy editor's gallery) of cliches, malaprops and blunders, oh my! (sic)	2002-2008