What Is Emusements?

I am a writer, producer, and former software engineer. Emusements is my blog and creative portfolio.

You’ll find an eclectic mix of content here — everything from my projects to musings on my various interests.

My blog posts explore technology, entertainment, personal finance, and cats (plus occasional mashups of those topics).

Visit Reviews for my TV and movie reviews, plus audio drama podcast picks.

My creative portfolio includes audio theater, screenwriting, entertainment journalism, website development, and video production.

If anything here sparks a question or a comment, contact me. I’d love to hear from you.

Featured Posts

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  How to Save Money on Streaming Services (Easy Tips & Tricks)

  Want to pay less for streaming? Learn easy ways to save money on streaming services with regularly updated tips & tricks.

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  A Most Dangerous Star Wars Fan Production

  Find out how a lifelong Star Wars fan mashed up a public domain movie from 1932 with Star Wars canon to create a fan production.

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  10 Important Myths To Know About Cats

  Milo the cat runs down his list of 10 important cat myths in the hope that humans will learn a few things about serving cats.

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  Remembering Mornings with Alex Bennett, the King of Comedy

  Personal memories of The Alex Bennett Radio Show, which ran in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1980 to 1997.

Dedication

This site is dedicated to my cat Milo (2016-2024), who, in addition to being one cool cat, occasionally posted on Emusements. Read his posts.

15 Random Facts About Me

1. I am oddly cross-dominant (a.k.a. “mixed-handed”). I write, eat, and play racket sports with my left hand. I do everything else (e.g., throw a ball, hold a bat, bowl) with my right hand. I am also right-footed.
2. Despite being over six feet tall and coveted by the football coach in ninth grade, I played four years of varsity BADMINTON in high school.
3. My late cat, Milo, was a blogger, and he was a better writer than I am.
4. After about a 30-year break from racket sports, I took Pickleball lessons in 2023 and now play and coach newbies twice a week.
5. My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz — and I played the Tin Man in a sixth-grade class production of the musical, The Wiz.
6. I am a founding member of SPOT (The Society of People Who Over-Think). I’m fully recovered now. Or am I?
7. I once backpacked for three months through Europe and visited eight countries.
8. I’m a huge Star Trek fan — I’ve made two fan productions so far and interviewed Leonard Nimoy in college.
9. I love the outdoors and hiking, but I hate camping.
10. My friends and I once invented a fantasy TV rotisserie league where the scoring was based on Nielsen ratings. For a few years, we offered it for others to play online.
11. I experienced a movie studio regime change first-hand while I was a temporary worker at TriStar Pictures (on the Sony Pictures lot).
12. Maybe the most fun thing I ever created was “Little Red Purple” — an elaborately staged musical puppet show that I produced and performed with my brother, on a stage we built around an air hockey table. Sadly, the show is lost to history as it predated home video camcorders (let alone YouTube).
13. I was an expert downhill skier by the time I was in middle school, but I have skied only once or twice since college.
14. Watching The Walking Dead opened the door for me to become a big fan of post-apocalyptic drama in all forms (TV, movies, audio drama, and novels).
15. I am quite fond of a candy called “Crunchy Frog” — which is made of “the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.”

(Note: I got the idea for creating this list after seeing a similar one by Nick Loper at Side Hustle Nation.)