Fear Is Not an Option

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The Biggest Trojan Horse Ever

A Portrait of the Author as an Old Man

Free Secrets About Life

The Real Michael Casher: Suitable for Framing

"All you need is a wise mind, a strong will, and a kind heart."

Author's Note: It's not about me, it's about the message.

The Fine Lines Between Two Worlds

Yes, my mother, Velma Casher, is still living. She's 82 and we still share the same home. This is an art video, one of several that I've made about my artwork and photo art, and I simply dedicated this surreal, artistic, upbeat video to my mother, to honor her while she's alive. Nothing more and nothing less. Yes, she likes this video. Thank you.

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Michael Casher Presents "Places"

Performance Art

Here's Looking At You

My Great Big Secret Message From Earth

How's that for persistence? That's right, four years ago today I stopped drinking alcoholic beverages. Do I feel any better? Not really. I'm 61, look 71 and feel 81 and that has nothing to do with alcohol. Is that personal enough for you? Am I sharing or what?

As a matter of fact, not drinking alcohol for four years showed me just how unimportant alcohol is. What alcohol does best is give you a false sense of whatever it is you thought you weren't getting. Happiness, euphoria, importance, love, affection, glory, warmth, success. Who needs a false sense of something when you can have the real thing by working for it or towards it? 

They say alcohol makes you lose your inhibitions. Well, a lot of inhibitions are kept at bay for very good reasons and if alcohol brings them out then my advice to you is to leave alcohol alone altogether. My experience has shown that when you imbibe alcohol you become somebody you're not and that's almost opposite from what the drinking world tells you. Why wouldn't they tell you a lie? They sell you your alcohol.

The real you is who you are when you are alone with just your thoughts. And you certainly don't need alcohol, or any other drug, to take you there. If being yourself is who you really are, without having your thoughts altered by substances or adjusted by others, then you've already arrived at your destination. Nurture that personality and watch it grow.

Eye Candy

I did 30 "digital paintings" in the past 26 days. Maybe I'd better quit while I'm ahead. On the other hand, when life hands you lemons and you turn them into lemonade — or a great big lemon drop — it sure beats the pants off writing books that just sit in boxes on the floor.

Aurora Solaris

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Sad News About Ninth Book

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Just as Jonco Bugos (Michael Casher's literary pen name) was very optimistic about completing his second literary novella (and Michael Casher's 9th book), a tragic event occurred. Michael writes all his fiction on a Canon StarWrtiter JET 4000 word processor, not on a computer. "The Truth Is a Lone Assassin" is no exception. When  each book is completed, the chapters get "exported" to another floppy disk that is formatted for his PC. Michael "builds" the book on his PC and uploads the paperback files to his printed book publisher (Lulu.com) and the ebook files to Amazon.com for the Amazon Kindle Store.

Well, we're sorry to break this sad, disturbing news to you but earlier this evening Michael (Jonco) discovered that two of the eight chapters that he'd written so far have been permanently deleted from the word processor's floppy disk. No backup disk was made because Michael ran out of floppys years ago and they're almost impossible to find anymore. That's right. Chapters 1 and 6 mysteriously disappeared from the floppy disk files and no other copies exist.

That's 30 pages of writing down the drain. Not 30 regular pages of science fiction but 30 pages of literary fiction that is not easily written. Those two chapters contained fifteen pages each and cannot be rewritten from memory. As this time, Michael Casher is at a loss as to what to do or say. What's worse is that this isn't the first time this has happened. Fifteen pages of Blind Fool Running vanished from the word processor screen one day in 2007 as Michael (Jonco) was just finishing up a very productive writing session. Three years ago he felt good enough, physically, to rewrite those pages from memory. But not anymore. The first chapter of The Truth is a Lone Assassin took Michael six months to write. And now two crucial chapters are lost forever.

Michael's pretty upset and pretty down, right now. That's all we can say for now. Sorry about that. "The Truth Is a Lone Assassin" was slated for publication in December 2012. Now, we're just not sure about that or if and when that novella will be completed.

January 6, 2013 happy Update to this sad story...

Real McCoy Paperback Page-Turner

The Bobby Moon Show

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Kindle-ing

Science Fiction for Thinkers Kindle Editions

All Blogged Out

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Opening New Windows

Lip Impressionist

"Frankie Fugazi" is not a "lip sinc" impressionist. That's Frankie's real voice. As if we had to tell you that. Frankie says it's more fun than playing checkers.

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