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The Latest From Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Yesterday, the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes winners were announced. For those who don't know, the Pulitzers recognize excellence in various categories of American writing and journalism, extending as far as Music, Drama, Photography, Cartooning and Public Service. There's als...
No matter how hard I've tried recently, I've been unable to make time for this blog. The Army Field Band Brass Quintet has been carpet-bombing the region with recitals, and I've had to fit every other task around that schedule. Plus, I try not to bore my readers with ...
I hope my returning readers haven't been too frustrated with my recent lapses between blog entries. I've been unusually busy this tour, and most of my writing time has gone towards Army Field Band tasks and a graphic novel I'm trying to get out the door (more to follo...
Another tour.
Professionally, tour is all I know. As soon as I finished college, I packed my horns and stepped onto a bus. Ten years later, I'm still on that bus. It's not as smelly now. It's a different band. I'm playing different ...
George Romero has become a household name. The Walking Dead is a phenomenal hit, both in comic stores and on television. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies began a new sub-genre of historical fiction, now containing such installments as Sense a...
The Road has a smell.
By "The Road," I don't mean a specific road. I mean all roads. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that there is only one great Road, and that all the world's streets, highways, sidewalks and trails feed into it, the way a st...
My long, frustrating search for an artist ended this week, as Scott Hampton and I began our collaboration on The Lazarus Slaves. To celebrate, some friends bought me my first bottle of mead, which we promptly emptied.
Mead...
