David MacPherson

One cocktail. One Man. Every damned bar in town. There are a lot of bars in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. David Macpherson took it upon himself to go to every watering hole and have a drink. Which drink? Why a gin and tonic, of course. He wrote about each of the 144 bars he went to from 2014 to 2015. There were good gin and tonics and then there was the time he got a gin and Coca-Cola. He found lovely people all around the city. He was also...

What do you collect? What is hanging around the house with you like an old friend? This is a book about all the things in our lives that we keep even though we know better. What are the things we should throw away, but we hold on to? Can we see the collection of playbills from local community theater productions art? If it isn't art, what is it? In this book, there are chapters that look at coloring books, t-shirts, collectible Star Wars glasses,...

What you have here is a collection of fifty brief, silly-ass stories. None of them are long, so you don't have to suffer through one for pages and pages if you don't dig it. For this blurb, we include a bonus story. You can read it and see if you want to pick up this book and read the others. It's up to you. It's always up to you. Here is the free story we have given to you just because we like your face. "Surfing "One of the difficult parts of surfing...

How do we climb to the top of a comic? It's an absurd question, but there are a few comics where this makes sense. In 1967, Wham-O put out a comic book that was 52 pages and two feet high. It was called, naturally, “Wham-O Giant Comics”. It was not a success. Only one issue came out. Most of the copies never made it to stores, they languished in warehouses. Now, E. H. Riot, Royal Comic Explorer for the Queen, has taken the task of climbing all...

David Macpherson explores an hour long episode of Scooby Doo. This tale deals with Cass Elliot owning a haunted candy factory. Only Scooby and friends can save the day. This book examines aspects of the show, the need for guest stars in a Saturday morning cartoon and the joy and pain of limited animation. Mama Cass's Golden Caramel Bar is a funny, thorough exploration of something that was never meant to be closely examined.

Can action figures give you happiness? There are many toy manufacturers who certainly hope they do. They made commercials to explain how you can play with them and what joy you should find in these Barbies and G.I Joe. This brief book primarily looks at the commercials for the toy playsets and the extra characters. This is a joyful look at the way the commercials tried to inform our desire and the way we play.

How entertaining is it to open a box of random comics? We are not sure, but we are willing to let David find out. He has purchased a Halloween themed mystery box of 11 comics. Will he get the grand prize? Will he find comics he wants? Why does anyone want to share unboxing comics? All questions that could be hidden in the box with the comics. Come along as David discovers what books he received and what thoughts and associations they bring to mind....

Tim is a ratwarmer. He has the power to bring people back from the dead. During the FlipSwitch, some people got some powers. Tim got the power of reanimation. It's not as great as it seems. He works for the police. He brings recently dead victims back so they can be a witness to their own death. That's what a ratwarmer does. It doesn't work well, but it's worth a try. Now, there is a murder in town. The wife a wealthy man. Tim knew this woman. And...

"Writing is easy. You just open up a vein and bleed on the page.""I hate writing. I love having written." These are just two quotes that most writers know. There are a bunch of them. They seem to grow up around us like mushrooms. Every writer has a witty comment about writing. It must be a requirement for writing. You must write a book and you have to put out clever bon mots. If you can't be funny about writing, can you even be considered a writer....

The world of comics is filled with wonders. But in the outskirts resides the odd and forgotten. The comic that never played well with others. The story that was converted into another medium. The character that probably should never have had its own comic. Welcome to the distant lands of comic books. “Welcome to the Comic Book Hinterlands”. In our first issue, we present the first time “Spider-Man” was a live action TV Show. He was a character...