Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
12 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
We have a few more relatively quiet days. Dad M and Cheryl sent $200 for Emma to spend this summer, which was really cool of them, so Erin takes her shopping - 2 brand new shirts, a couple of pencils she loves, a spiffy water bottle are the procee...
6 Jun 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
McKayla and Emma, sitting on an interstate divider near Livingston, Kentucky These summers have become so epic in my mind, and I try to never take them for granted. My daughter Emma is 16 and currently lives with her mom and sister in Kentucky...
22 May 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Glass House, as it came to be known over time, was a memorable and dare I say even legendary residence located at the corner of Mulford Avenue and McClain Road. Well, the house is still there, of course – it’s just that the people and circumstances...
15 May 2025 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Victorian’s Midnight Cafe was a former…well, I’m not even sure what you’d call it, but it sure was something. A cafe, yes, I suppose, and definitely located in Victorian’s Village, in Columbus Ohio. And though I was certainly there past midnig...
9 May 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This day begins as a virtual, bizarre repeat of the one before it, except downsized to Bucyrus scale. Or maybe a parallel universe where you find yourself in Bucyrus instead of a fairly nice casino in another state. Once again I dip out...
2 May 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
My first Kevin and Lynn encounter of this trip is something of a Shanghai attack, unexpectedly encountering them down in the continental breakfast area of our West Virginia hotel. I’ve met them before, of course, and they are roughly th...
25 Apr 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Day One curious logo for place allegedly promoting happiness A strange though perhaps apt logo choice, for a place allegedly promoting happiness About a month before the unplanned Florida trip, I found myself taking a much happier, antici...
17 Apr 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As someone who was at their first and last shows, not to mention countless in between, I had a bird’s eye view of their all too brief flight path. During that time, Early Empire went from being a good group to one I was going around proclaiming as t...
10 Apr 2025 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This scene from my brand new novel, Well-Behaved Monsters, finds our main characters Dylan, Joe, and Sid gathered at their favorite watering hole, Triads Lounge, for a state of the union type chat. Dylan and Joe both have serious girlfriends a...
3 Apr 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about my forthcoming book, Well-Behaved Monsters, so this seems like a good time to do so. To clue in newsletter newcomers, but also to remind you existing loyal readers that it’s set for official re...
