I write things and talk about stuff. Sometimes I swim.
The Barkeep stories take place in a tavern that simultaneously occupies space in our world and well, every other possible world; kind of a combination between MacAnally’s in the Harry Dresden books and Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. The mysterious owner insists he’s just a humble barkeep but somehow knows what each of his customers really need. […]
An Occasional Series January 2025
Many decades ago, six-year-old Dennis Green was channel-surfing (three channels, didn’t take very long). He landed on KMTV, the Omaha NBC affiliate, just in time to see this creature fill the TV screen, all twelve inches of it. Scared the shit out of me. Years later, like all young geeks of the era, I started […]
Kampus Radio for the University of Iowa 1979 audio documentary Written and produced by Dennis Green My radio career began at the University of Iowa in 1978 when I attended a meeting about “bringing back” KRUI, the campus radio station which had been off the air for two years after a funding spat. A year […]
What is it about the Kennedy assassination that continues to fascinate us decades later? No one who was alive at the time, even if you were a toddler, as I was, can keep from thinking that things would have been different if John Kennedy hadn’t died that day. Usually, we imagine things would have turned […]
My friends know that I have a long history as a fan of Mannheim Steamroller. (See “Hey, Chip! You’re Welcome” ) So, as the band comes to Hancher for two shows on Nov. 19, it was a huge honor to talk to Roxanne Layton, a member and friend of founder Chip Davis since the 90s. If I would have had […]
In 2016, I got a pic and autograph from Kevin Conroy at Wizard World. A few years later, the KCCK-FM staff, (instigated by Ron Adkins) went together and got me a Cameo for Christmas. It’s one of my favorite things. So sad that this unforgettable voice has been stilled.
