Jack | February 2, 2019
Today is my birthday. Birthdays have a unique power- like Christmas and New Year celebrations- to force us to look back through our lives and consider some goals, high points, low points, lessons learned, lessons still to be learned and, if we turn around, the horizons yet ahead of us. Seventeen years ago, my friend […]
Jack | October 23, 2017
Virginia’s, New Vienna Community Center will help light up their 2017-2018 season with an evening of live radio dramas “In Living Sound – Back Home” for the end of October. Check out the Connection article on the upcoming performance: In its first show of the 2017-2018 season in the newly renovated Vienna Community Center, the […]
Jack | March 19, 2017
This week on the Twilight Zone Podcast, host Tom Elliot begins his review of season three of the Twilight Zone with the episode Two starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery. Our Jack chimes in with his favourite memories of Rod Serling and the zone in a little audio feedback. Fascinating when you consider how similar […]
Jack | February 26, 2017
Long time listeners of the Sonic Society (and a fair number of new listeners) will recognize that if there’s one spiritual mentor that guides my writing, it’s Rod Serling. Thanks to a society fan I’ve discovered and have been catching up on Tom Elliot’s excellent Twilight Zone Podcast. Tom’s dedication to the show and Mr. Serling’s […]
Jack | November 7, 2016
Long time listeners of the Sonic Society will know that I’m a fan of many writers, but specific writers have always driven me to be a better writer- Rod Serling, Robert E. Howard, J. Michael Straczynski, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, David Milch, Chuck Dixon, Steven Moffat, Alan Dean Foster, Dash Hammett as just some that […]
Jack | February 22, 2016
The BBC has made arrangements to carry the famous Twilight Zone Radio Dramas from producer Carl Amari. For those of us familiar, Stacy Keach’s rich voice fills the role of narrator once held by the iconic Rod Serling for the original television series. In an io9 article, we discover that ten episodes will be released featuring the […]
Jack | January 17, 2010
I challenge anyone to come up with an anthology series on television that was more influential, creative, and important than Rod Serling‘s Twilight Zone. Personally, no writer has ever influenced my scripts than Mr. Serling’s clever tales of suspense and social commentary. So it was with an absolute thrill when I was able to speak […]
Jack | October 2, 2009
50 years ago this week, Rod Serling a former paratrooper, boxer, and three time Emmy Award winning writer from the experimental live drama series Playhouse 90 had attempted to escape controversy as a social/political critic in creating a “fantasy” series. His now famous interview with Mike Wallace in which he claims he’s no longer interested […]
