(first chapters for download)
Young tennis vagabond Bacon O'Rourke travels the country with a racquet on his back and whiskey in his flask. As spring arrives, Bacon attracts about him an underground tennis caravan, barreling down the east coast from Montreal to Key West, serving and volleying, drinking and toking their way cross the land, cadging beds or camping out.
This comic epic is, in short, Jack Kerouac with a tennis racquet, and some serious bad guys. The story covers tennis and evil, sex and death, drugs and physics, and the dangers in commodifying that which we love. The bad guys in hot pursuit of Bacon and his tennis caravan include the mythical Tennis Illuminati (secret masters of the Game), and a down-and-out coach with a taste for detective novels, Zen quips, and funk music. God and the Devil make cameos as tournament umpires.
This is a book about youth and generations, and the power to create the world around us. It is a parable of consumerism and commodification, at a time when those things are being questioned
The adventures of Bacon O'Rourke are now an Internet radio serial! Check it out:
(Including the famous Tragically Hip stories. Well, they should be famous, anyway. Am I to blame for everything wrong with society?)
Euro League:
A hockey comedy for the strike+lock-out era.
(first act for download)
Bobby "Gloves Off" Leduc is an aging hockey star, with scoring titles and cover photos on Celebrity Newfoundland magazine, but no championship cups. On the day the season is cancelled for a lock-out, he learns of the astronomical alimony payments he'll owe his 3rd wife. Bobby travels to Europe to play for his goalie's home team in the OSDPHL- the Outer Slobovian People's Democratic Hockey League. The team's mafia owner and the, err, quirks of Slobovia conspire to keep his salary and sanity out of reach.
This is a hockey movie that can finally displace Slapshot quotes in locker rooms everywhere; Bobby Gloves Off is a hero to stand in the men's pantheon somewhere between Gordie Howe and Bob and Doug McKenzie.
A hockey comedy for the strike+lock-out era.
(first act for download)
Bobby "Gloves Off" Leduc is an aging hockey star, with scoring titles and cover photos on Celebrity Newfoundland magazine, but no championship cups. On the day the season is cancelled for a lock-out, he learns of the astronomical alimony payments he'll owe his 3rd wife. Bobby travels to Europe to play for his goalie's home team in the OSDPHL- the Outer Slobovian People's Democratic Hockey League. The team's mafia owner and the, err, quirks of Slobovia conspire to keep his salary and sanity out of reach.
This is a hockey movie that can finally displace Slapshot quotes in locker rooms everywhere; Bobby Gloves Off is a hero to stand in the men's pantheon somewhere between Gordie Howe and Bob and Doug McKenzie.
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Tricked you, there's no link there, is there? This is a work in progress, but there is a producer attached. Things should move fast in the next year, so check back for news.