Finally, a chance to shoot women in the head for free!
The product description for the anthology Women of the Living Dead:Many have called women the fairer sex. To those I say, come home late from a night out with the guys when the wife expects you home...
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Ah, Berkeley!
Spotted outside a bookstore:Sadly, said bookstore doesn't seem like it wants to carry the van-owner's twenty-four page booklet explaining that Stephen King shot John Lennon.
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This is me...
On Tuesday afternoon, I started feeling a little ill. Something going around at work. So I just had white rice for dinner and went to be before 11pm. (Fasting rules and extra sleep take care of 95% of...
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I took a nap during Pulp Fiction and woke up to Waterworld. And yet I managed not to stick my head in the oven.Also, from The Atlantic, a scientist believes that not only is parasitic manipulation far...
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The NGOization of the left
Left unstated in the article I linked to yesterday was a general critique of the current notion of "non-violence." David Graeber rightly pointed out that all protests will be reported as violent, even...
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Do you like Zombies vs Robots, the strange comic from IDW? Well, there's a series of short fiction releases in the same setting for e-readers and mine, "Throckmorton's Bad Day" is available now.Well,...
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A story with a real-world setting that has one science fictional or fantastical element in it, presented without the semiotic decoration of genre fiction (e.g., not in the SF/F section of the...
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Short Animated Academy Award Nominees
When la_nausicaa and I first starting going together, one of the first things we did was see the short animated films nominated for Academy Awards. So now we do it every year. This was the weakest one...
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Thanks to the 24-hour news cycle and the end of morning and evening editions...
we have no idea what the hell is going on sometimes. To wit:Top of page: Whitney Houston deadMiddle of page: Whitney Houston not deadHey man, just open the box and take a peek already.
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Well, that novel—which I've been working on, in spurts, since 2004, is done and handed in. Should be out this autumn. Here's its late-in-coming theme song:
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With the novel done I decided to take a night off, but then I got bored so started doing the taxes. It went smoothly enough for once that I ended up completing them, and I was surprised to see that for...
View ArticleAnother doppleganger, another nickname
As regular readers know, I have many lookalikes, because I have a familiar face. I also tend to collect nicknames at stores where I am a regular. Well, today, at Hot Spud when I was being rung up, the...
View ArticleZOMBIES VS ROBOTS VS KINDLE
Okay, now my short story "Throckmorton's Bad Day" from the Zombies vs Robots comic is live on Kindle. It's part of a series of eight that includes work by Steve Rasnic Tem, Don Webb, Nancy Collins,...
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Should I Kickstart this?
It's now the done thing for any blogger who wants to engage in an economic activity more intense than buying lunch to ask if they should somehow turn it into a project and Kickstart it. Anyway, here...
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Stoker finalists, with notes
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA Matrix Of Angels by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)Cosmic Forces by Greg Lamberson (Medallion Press)Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi (Medallion Press /...
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Questions
la_fields has seven questions for me. The idea is that someone answering questions would then generate questions just like the good ol' days of LJ, but I'm tired and will only consume, not propagate....
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I am old.On the plus side, my former Writing Salons student Matt Lavin just wrote to say that he'll be making his fiction debut later this year in Bruce Bethke's Stupefying Stories. Like the crazy lady...
View ArticleEvery Tuesday is Fat Tuesday
Toda is both pancake day* and the 164th anniversary of publication of The Communist Manifesto. If you can't afford a pancake today, you know what to do...*Western devils only.
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