Rook - Graphic Novel (Episode 1)
Alyson Taylor, a 20-something waitress in San Francisco, has always known she was different. Since she was a kid, the images she sketches in her spare time have had this disconcerting habit of coming true. She has odd bouts of superhuman strength, and picks up stalkers no matter how hard she tries to remain inconspicuous. Yet even one hundred years after the discovery of a second, human-like race on Earth, she's not ready to admit she might not be human. When she picks up yet another half-baked "admirer" it seems like business as usual...until her stalker informs her that she's a seer, like him. This episode introduces readers to the alternate Earth history of Rook, and the seer who comes to find her, Revik, an ex-Nazi who tells her she's about to end the world...
"Mumbletoes" - a story of friendship
In the anthology Ogner Stump's 1,000 Sorrows, by Andrew Goldfarb. The story of an angry young...err, boy...who befriends a fish that grows in his ear.
Reviews of the anthology
"Kar
ma" - a short story by JC Andrijeski. What if Hitler and Churchill were actually playing out an age-old
battle between two rivals that had been incarnating together over and
over across time? Exploring roles from evil to good to lazy and
decadent in an attempt to understand the human experience, one of these
beings seems destined to destroy the other, no matter what the
circumstances, no matter how much the world changes over time.
"The Program" - a short story by JC Andrijeski. A successful, beige-wearing business woman is minding her own business,
blending in, not making waves. But after hundreds of identical business
motivation conventions, each with their own system for getting ahead,
maximizing your potential, executing success, demonstrating
excellence…she meets someone who offers to show her the evil pattern
behind it all. Sort of.
"Journey Into Jung's Red Book: Liber Primus" - A personal and theoretical look at “Liber Primus,” the first of the
collection of books written by psychologist Carl Jung that were
collectively entitled “The Red Book.” Unpublished until October of
2009, “The Red Book” is considered by many, including Jung himself, to
be the foundation of all of Jung’s groundbreaking theories and writings
to follow.
"A Letter to the Establishment: The Cautionary Tale of Hunter S. Thompson" - Drug-crazed, iconic, outrageous--Hunter S. Thompson’s own reputation as
the rock star writer of the 1970s obscured the meaning behind much of
his work, even for many of his fans. An essay on Hunter S. Thompson as
a journalist, and the implications and intention behind his style of
“gonzo journalism” on current day media…as well as what set him apart
Miscellany re: Writings
"Interview with Chris Hill" - Interview of promoter of "Pushforward" arts & culture iPhone app on Escape Into Life, April 15th, 2010
"Zeitgeist: Addendum" - description on Showcase segment of Escape into Life, April 14th, 2010
"Journey Into the Red Book - Liber Primus" - essay on Carl Jung's The Red Book. Featured in Escape Into Life, January 31st, 2010 (written by J. Andrijeski)
"The Program" Dog vs. Sandwich, August 11, 2008 (written by J. Andrijeski)
"Bomb the City" Mayor Bloomberg vs. NYC Graffiti Artists", New York Press, May 10, 2006 (written by J. Andrijeski, click here for byline)
Film clip of The Treehouse, by Margorie Sturm (J. Andrijeski, creative consulting work
