{"id":8,"date":"2013-05-01T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:55:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About \/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Black Magic Tingles. That is how you know.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Writer of Fantastic tales<\/strong><\/span>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

short<\/strong>,<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

medium,<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

& large<\/strong>.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Lecturer of the Obscured.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Raffin is nicer than anybody. Ask anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait. Don’t. They might be biased.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a contributor to Funny Times<\/em>, Rosebud<\/em> magazine, and various other publications, paper and pixel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<Buy my books<\/a>.<\/a>>\n

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David Raffin: More Than True<\/b>, a podcast<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podcast<\/strong>: “The stories I tell which are not true are<\/em> MORE THAN TRUE<\/strong><\/span>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He published a satirical journal, Vision? Nary!<\/em>, which was reviewed positively by MaximumRock’n’Roll<\/em> and the Joe Bob Report<\/em>, newsletter of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The amalgam of fantasy and realism, of fantastic plot turns… Certainly, David is a virtuoso at not delivering what an audience might expect. As such, he shows his remarkable skills as a satirist.”<\/em>
– Evergreen State College<\/p>

“He’s not your average comedian.”<\/em>
– The Daily Olympian<\/p>

“A cross between Garrison Keillor and Salvador Dali.” \u2013The Northwest Examiner<\/em><\/p>

“Attic Dog by David Raffin [is] Wonderfully sad and very strange. Creates a beautifully desolate atmosphere of dust-strewn, forgotten spaces and the creeping, lonely decay of a long abandoned toy.”
– <\/em>Haunted Eyeball<\/p>

“Intelligent, humorous, and highly imaginative always a pleasure to read.”
– <\/em> Peter Bacho, Author “Cebu” “Dark Blue Suit”\n

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Media & Booking<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For your eyes a Press Kit <PDF<\/a>> <\/em>in the universal format of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Business contact here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

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Writer of Fantastic tales: short, medium, & large. Lecturer of the Obscured. David Raffin is nicer than anybody. Ask anyone. Wait. Don’t. They might be biased. He is a contributor to Funny Times, Rosebud magazine, and various other publications, paper and pixel. <Buy my books.> Podcast: “The stories I tell which are not true are MORE THAN TRUE.” He published a satirical journal, Vision? Nary!, which was reviewed positively by MaximumRock’n’Roll and the Joe Bob Report, newsletter of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs. “The amalgam of fantasy and realism, of fantastic plot turns… Certainly, David is a virtuoso at not delivering what an...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3u13S-8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/buy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":0},"title":"Books on Sale, HOT!","author":"David Raffin","date":"May 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Available from Amazon, KOBO, Barnes & Noble, Overdrive Story Problems (are telling) A book of lines. 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