Woodward Strip Women

Woodward Strip WomenA memoir by Colin Campbell      After I quit the copywriter job at the Sears advertising department, my girlfriend Rhonda and I lived in a nudist commune on an island in Lake Orion. She’d been a copywriter at Sears, too, a beautiful recent college graduate with an IQ of 162.      She and […]

My First Writing Job

My First Writing Joba memoir by Colin Campbell      In late August 1967, I was reduced to living in my broken-down Buick Special at the site of a farmhouse in rural Michigan that had burned down and was now a secluded Lover’s Lane. I was 20 years old.      It was the summer of the […]

The Technology of Text

The Technology of Text      Back when history began, writing was a secret for a small inner circle of kings and priests and tax collectors. Then a sudden technological advance let ordinary people convert text into audible speech.      It was 2,700 years ago, and Greece was just another grubby little kingdom until King Cadmus […]

The Technology of Text

The Technology of Textan essay by Colin Campbell      Back when history began, writing was a secret for a small inner circle of kings and priests and tax collectors. Then a sudden technological advance let ordinary people convert text into audible speech.       It was 2,700 years ago, and Greece was just another grubby little […]

Free-Range Ferals

Free-Range Ferals by Colin Campbell ​It didn’t occur to me that my childhood life was unusual, not until later in life when I discovered that hardly anybody else’s mother was a motorcycle club mama.​When she married one of the young gang members, she didn’t tell him the marriage would trigger the sale of the house […]

Biker Mama

Biker Mama a memoir by Colin Campbell      Three weeks after I turned 14, my mother married a guy who was 21. Pete. She told me all about it. His parents were against it. She tried to dissuade him. “I could never marry a Catholic,” she told Pete when he proposed. They were parked at […]

Copywritering 9-16-24

I was a copywriter for a long time and then the Macintosh computer came along and changed the entire graphic arts industry. Typesetters were among the first to vanish. A prominent Santa Barbara typesetter suicided. I myself profited by draining the life out of typesetters using my laser printer. When I bought my first laser […]

Copywritering 8-7-24

Copywritering: August 7, 2024   “Copywritering” is the process of attempting to earn a living by being a  copywriter.       I’ve been doing it a long time. I never expected to retire: I thought I would work until my final breath. I’m not in retirement, I’m still trying to adapt my skills toward being a […]

Copywritering 8-6-24

Copywritering 8-6-24    I saw an article today, “Big Tech’s AI shock troops came for us — are you next?” by Josh Slocum. He was laid off as a content creation writer when the company he worked for went out of business last week and all thirty writers are now in the unemployment line. “It’s not […]

Moire

Moire A short story (5,675 words) by Colin  Campbell      Jacob Voz met Moire when he delivered another iteration of a superconductive boat motor to the Marine Science Institute. He opened the door into the lab and saw a woman in a fluorescent orange bikini sitting at a workbench full of electronics equipment. She looked […]