If you are reading this, then you made it through 2025.
Congratulations, you badass. Here’s to change and growth in 2026.

To anyone receiving this transmission: you have but hours to become the patron of the arts that kicks the Bonebat 2026 “Comedy of Horrors” Film Festival over the top into reality! Click on over and be part of a most excellent film festival!

In the latest (rf) Transmissions, I lay bare my love for mechanical tools, especially typewriters and pianos, and how they can connect us personally with the past. And I introduce a new unit to measure one’s typewriter collection: the Hanx (hx).
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Just got my tickets to BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest 2026. Did last year’s festival change my life? QUITE POSSIBLY. Now YOU TOO can feast on this exquisite array of horror/comedy awesomeness hosted by good folk in a beautiful theater. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

This is a post about a post about a post: Just dropped a new issue of the newsletter, discussing the wild ride it took to corral same. Comes with a weird Jurassic Park simile, and many, many colors of pen. Have a read here:
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When I was a kid, we had a werewolf problem in our backyard. Then it went away. Or did it? Just in time for Spooky Season, I ask the perennial question, “Where is my werewolf?"
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In other news, the next issue of the (required field) Transmissions newsletter will be a little late.

Hey, I did a short, fun interview for
@paddygilmore.bsky.social’s most excellent Brands and Humor newsletter. What do I feel is the secret ingredient to humor that connects with your audience? Click and read!
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The (required field) Transmissions newsletter is about “Creativity. Technology. Occasionally monsters. With jokes.” And it’s “occasionally" today — the new issue is out and it’s about the joy and solace of horror movies. Enjoy!
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The good folks at #HPLFF2025 have their Kickstarter going, so this is a great time to get your tickets and support the festival. Can't make it Portland? No worries, there’s a streaming festival, too! Go support some good people and join a warm and welcoming audience: kck.st/41nXysJ

Fresh newsletter out today: “What I Learned (again) at Jazz Camp.” It’s got jazz combos, scuba diving, screenplay writing and more, plus some of the weirder Fun Facts I’ve ever posted. Enjoy!
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f you’re going to be at #SeattleWorldcon2025 this weekend, you can see "Your Parasite and You" as part of the Best of Crypticon block, starting at 3p on Fri 15 Aug.
And if you’re not going to Worldcon, why not? Check out their glorious schedule for all the SF/F goodness you can delight in.

Pat Boone says “Hold my milk”

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I took a look at updating my newsletter’s “value statement,” and hoo boy did that turn into a rabbit hole. So I ask the musical question “Can your heart stand the shocking facts?” (about the (required field) Transmissions newsletter), out later this week: news.requiredfieldproductions.com

TRAILER OF THE DAY! Pleased to present this Official Selection from the PNW & (Required Field) Productions, directed by Jamie Gower, YOUR PARASITE AND YOU! See it 4/5 at @siffnews.bsky.social Downtown during the 2025 @bonebat.bsky.social Comedy of Horrors Film Fest! Get tickets via the link below!

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