LOL America
Years ago, when slogans like "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" might have made sense, "third-camp" leftists had to deal with issues of vulgar equalization. Aren't racist drug laws just like the Gulag?...
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Melancholia
You know what you shouldn't say to a person with depression? "Cheer up, it isn't the end of the world!" probably tops the list. It just doesn't work. See, young Justine—copywriter and new bride—remains...
View ArticleWhat year is it?
Good news, everyone! The year 2012 will be the year everything gets better. Your health, better. Your relationships, better. The world, better. Your money situation, better. The corrupt will cower and...
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"My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."
Or in my case, it's sadder than an empty 2011 day-by-day New Yorker cartoon calendar left face down in a nearly empty recycling bin.Back to work!
View ArticleOne Million Little Spams
The Kindle version of Move Under Ground is just 99 cents till Sunday. So if you got a Kindle last week, or some device for which there is a Kindle app, this will something to buy.Another cycle of my...
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Coming in March 2012.The Big ClickAn Online Magazine of Crime Fiction
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Wooo, it's Christmas! I see that the several isitchristmasyet.com-type websites are woefully sectarian.
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Far from home
I've taken to spelling my name to strangers as follows: "M-a-m-a as in mama, t as in Thomas, a-s, all the vowels are a's." Usually this works, though today, for my bus ticket to Wilkes-Barre PA, it did...
View ArticleA little reading tonight
I'm reading tonight here in Wilkes-Barre, along with Kaylie Jones and several faculty of the Wilkes U. MFA program. My favorite story these days is still North Shore Friday (opens PDF), but it's...
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Good Kazzie news
Radiology report came back fine. As fightingwords guessed, she has a strained muscle in her back, which did happen once before in 2007, but then I wasn't around to hear her initial squeals of agony. So...
View ArticleStill in Wilkes-Barre
As it turns out, depending on the United or Continental websites to get info about travel delays is utterly useless. My plane was delayed due to inclement weather in Chicago, and I was going to miss my...
View Articleit's nice actually...
To spend time in a hotel with public spaces not dominated by people who wander around aimlessly, bellow at one another, stare off into space and occasionally snort derisively at nothing, bleat unfunny...
View ArticleOkay Saturday!
No go again. Now, somewhat more intelligently, they're flying me to Newark tomorrow, and from there to SF. And if I get stuck in Newark, at least I can just go to Long Island.
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And then we made our escape...
I am finally back home. Yesterday, Brian Keene and Rob Swartwood came up to rescue me! And we ended up being the first real customers—barring the family members and friends who attended the "soft...
View ArticleWilkes University MFA program notes
I was very impressed with the Wilkes University MFA program. I was a visitor to their residency this past week, and my expectations were low. However, the place is amazing. Some impressions:All I knew...
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That unreadable story again
I mentioned the other day when I was reading in Wilkes-Barres that it would be very difficult to read "North Shore Friday", and linked to it to demonstrate. But the Asimov's link was dead and a couple...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Hitler continued to speak “Goku, can’t you see? I’ve reached a power level 10 TIMES anything you’ve ever achieved! Your fate is sealed, weakling.”You know, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, it's...
View ArticleTuesday quick notes
Oh man, between vacation days and holidays and inclement weather, I've been in the office all of two days this year. Until today!Speaking of, MM9 by Hiroshi Yamamoto is out today. Can giant monsters be...
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