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Fegatini Di Pollo Con Papardelle - More Italian food porn. Italian style chicken livers with pancetta and lean beef in a creamy white wine-tomato sauce.
#italiancooking #chickenliverswithpapardelle
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
On this dread even, Samhain, when all the creatures that ever lived, animal or human, roam the earth howling with grief over their demise and bent upon revenge on the living, I and the King in Yellow wish you a most glamour-filled Keltick New Year's Eve!

#samhain #thekinginyellow #halloween
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Inspired once again by an old nonna on Facebook, I made a cheese and onion pie. This is my first actual pie made with pizza dough. Admittedly not as good as nonna's, but still darn tasty. Italian dishes cooked from scratch are the best.

#italiancooking #cheeseandonionpie #puglia
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I review Pissed Jeans' scorching hot set last night at Comet Ping Pong:

mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/pissed-jea...

#pissedjeans #hardcore #cometpingpong #subpop
October 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Anthony Flacco and Jen Newens of Martin Literary Management have agreed to represent my Civil War crime novel, Scoundrel!To plug the novel, a cinematic character study has been developed of Vanesse St. Domingue, the main character's quadroon mistress in New Orleans.
September 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I just finished a first draft of my new novella, Wayne Barry, Drug Dealer To The Stars. As my old pal Truman Capote once remarked, "The best part of writing is having written." I'll probably have to park this one after I do a rewrite due to another, more pressing project.
#horrorfiction #noir
August 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Stasera, la cucina e siciliana! Sicilian style deep dish pizza with one half smothered in pepperoni.
#pizza #sicilian #italiancooking
August 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The trouble and strife asked for a Greek meal this week-end so I fixed a mixed grill, spuds, a pigeon, locanico sausage, and lamb and goat chops marinated for 24 hours in my secret recipe sauce.  All extremely tasty.

#food #greekmixedgrill
August 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I review Nicholas Pullen's novel, The Black Hunger:

mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/review-the...

#nicholaspullen #gothic #horror
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I review Gabino Iglesias's really creepy novel set in Puerto Rico, House Of Bone And Rain:

mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/doom-and-d...

#horrorfiction #gabinoiglesias #puertorico
July 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Assault Team Volume 2 will be available for purchase in two days on Amazon. The anthology features military SF, including my steampunk short story, Sea Battle, wherein one lone French steamship dares take on the Royal Navy's entire Channel Squadron.

#militarySF

www.amazon.com/Assault-Team....
July 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Here's a dish you probably won't see outside of many Italian-American homes or fancier restaurants, una coniglia lardato, a larded rabbit. Inspired by Stanley Tucci's latest cooking/travel show.
#stanleytucci #italiancooking #rabbit
July 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Here's a shot of myself along with my fellow members of the Virginia Chapter of the Horror Writers Association at the 2025 Stoker Con in Stamford, Connecticut. I sat in the chair to fit into the photo, not because I'm now too weak to stand for long periods.

#HWA #StokerCon25 #horrorfiction
July 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It's been a while so what better way to resume my Italian food porn than with two new dishes (for me anyway): polpette di melanzane e fettucine cacio e pepe, both inspired by the kindly, diminutive nonna I see on Facebook.

#italianfood #foodporn
June 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I had a lot of fun last weekend at the HWA Stoker Con in Stamford, CT. Among other dubious achievements, I drew one of the main characters in my new novel, Wayne Berry, Drug Dealer To The Stars, that is, The King Robed In Yellow.
#thekinginyellow #horror #crimefiction
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm making steady progress so far on my new novel about a drug dealer who runs his illegal business from a gas station on Hollywood & Vine in 1951.

Sounds like hot stuff, huh? To be continued...

#crimefiction #horror #oldhollywood #drugs
June 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Rene Magritte Doodle - Yes, It Is A Pipe
Various facial features randomly fitted together in an ascending staircase of meaningless aspirations. Sent forth to celebrate the return of functionality to my scanner. All the Surrealist best!
May 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I review Aussie pub rockers, Amyl And The Sniffers, one punk as f$%k band:

mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/amyl-and-t...

#amylandthesniffers #australia #punkrock
May 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I review the ultra-gory, super creepy Japanese film, Ninja Vs. Shark:

mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/ninja-vs-s...

#ninja #japanesefilm #swordandsorcery
May 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Take heart, true believers! Melkart the Mighty takes on none other than the God of Death himself, Old Pluto, in issue #23 of Cirsova Magazine.
Out on June 19. Order the issue using the Amazon link below! 'Nuff said.

www.amazon.com/Cirsova-Maga...

#swordandsorcery #cirsovamagazine #fantasy
May 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Among other activities during a brief visit to Colonial Beach (or as we insiders call it, Colonial Vegas), we visited Menokin. Those are all original stones reset in new mortar. Anyone in the Northern Neck area should seriously consider paying a visit to the site.

#Menokin #FrancisLightfootLee
May 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In a particularly Grouchoesque humor due to being about to smoke un puro cubano prohibido - another plus of visiting Belize.
#cubancigar #cohiba #belize
April 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Enjoying retirement perhaps a bit too much at the fabulous Ko-Ox Ha-Nah restaurant in San Ignacio, Belize with an extravagant iced daiquiri. Irene and I had an absolutely wonderful trip together.

#Belize #SanIgnacio #iceddaiquiri
April 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
La Cucina E Italiana Senza Fine! Questa volta, a particularly pretty pasta primavera to celebrate our return to the USA and home cooking. Once more another tip of the cappello to The Sopranos Cookbook. The more you make these dishes, the better they taste.

#italiancooking #pastaprimavera #veggie
April 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anatra Arrosto Ripiena - Roast Stuffed Duck. La cucina e italiana sette: roast duck stuffed with asiago cheese bread and herbs served with gnocchi in a white wine sauce.
#italianfood #roastduck #gnocchi
March 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM