To every North American horror fan’s excitement, book editor, actor, and HorrorHound columnist Aaron Christensen (also known as “Dr.

Omnibucket co-producer Benjamin Wachs' first collection of short stories has just been released:  "A Guide to Bars and Nightlife in the Sacred City"!

It's available here, and the video is pretty damn good, if we do say so ourselves. 

Check it out!

We started "Action Fiction!", in conjunction with The San Francisco Writers Community and Fiction365, a year-and-a-half ago, and candidly no one is more surprised than us that it's turned out to be this good.  

We know it would be good - don't get us wrong - but this good?  Magic good?  Inspiring performers and writers alike to new heights, good?  

No, honestly, that was a surprise to us too.  But the shows have been consistently that great.  

Desperate Dolls is a feature-length, female-driven horror movie written and directed by Darren Callahan (BBC, SyFy, Under the Table, Children of the Invisible Man).  Set in Hollywood in 1968, it is the story of three young actresses with hand-picked nicknames who become entangled in a web of murder, hypnosis, and ghosts.  Considered a smart take on retro exploitation films, the film will have flashes of sex and violence, but keeps focus on a strong, classic style with chilling scares.

Back in the days of independent cinema – you know, before 1980 – there were dozens of film production houses that worked region-by-region all across America.  Small shops, small pictures, small money – mini-studios that might give you some financing if you had a track record, or were an exciting talent, or just had a cool idea.  If you traced the lineage of one of these houses, it sometimes ended in the Mob.  But not all were crooks – some were legitimate forces, such as Roger Corman or CinePix.  Still others were fly-by-night operations with $100,000 and dream, sprung out of cash made on p

Omnibucket co-founder Scott Lambridis was interviewed about our series of staged readings, Action Fiction!, for Fourteen Hills, the literary magazine of San Francisco State University.  

Take a look!

Learn more about Action Fiction! here - including our next show - and see clips.

Abstract Art tends to get bad press, routinely calling it “inaccessible” when it can be beautiful. 

Omnibucket co-founder Dave Senecal has taken a step to correct the record, opening an exhibit at the City Art Center in Delaware, Ohio, that serves as a 101 class in abstract art. 

Aimed at people who don’t know what to look for when approaching pictures that don’t look like something, the exhibit “Color, Line, and Shape” also features the work of Jay Moffett, Peggy Mintun, Michael Bush, and Tom Dewey.

Last week I met the President, and discovered I’m not cynical after all.  I’m as surprised as you are.

The cliché “with eyes wide open” presents an interesting irony when instantiated physically and in a conversation about whether or not the Indians ever hung out with Jesus.  I’ll explain.