Three Things I Like

I read "Bunraku" by David X. Wiggins in ms form a few years ago, and was surprised that he was having trouble having it published. Indeed, I nearly bought it for The Future is Japanese, but it was ultimately too far off-theme and too traditional besides. When he published it in a small PDF magazine, he was happy and I was disappointed. But I was pretty happy to see that the story lives again, in podcast form, over on the popular and well-paying horror story podcast site Pseudopod. I hope some you click through. John Chu reads.


I also received this very fun comic...



The Freedom Collective is a one-shot parody of Lee and Kirby's Avengers, with the conceit being that Lee and Kirby were born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain but ended up drawing comics anyway. I'm a sucker for parody comic book ads, and there are funny ones in here, and the letter column is heavily redacted, but the comic book story itself is played utterly straight. Definitely very cute—wish the interiors weren't b&w though.

And the best news of the week, Stelios Vlamakis, Golden Dawn candidate, was thrown in the sea at the Venetian port of Chania [Crete] by local residents reacting to the attacks against immigrants and other residents by Golden Dawn supporters at the centre of Chania. Wish you were here, Nazis! *glub glub*