Black Watch
Today, for Olivia's birthday*, we went to see A. C. T. production of Black Watch, about the famous Scottish military regiment and its final days before being amalgamated into the Royal Regiment of...
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Love is the Law
Love is the Law started as a joke, really. My then-agent had me on the phone about another novel which she was, predictably, having trouble selling. Her bright idea—the one after "be Don DeLillo" lead...
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The subhead says it all: Lupe Fiasco's management takes control of his Twitter feed following Marxist theory debate. And it really was a theoretical debate—term-paper stuff even. Did Lupe forget to...
View ArticleThe Fulfillment of the Pre-Retirement Solicitation
My story "Exit Through the Gift Shop" will appear in the new anthology SEARCHERS AFTER HORROR*, S.T. Joshi, ed. Fedogan & Bremer, pub, along with work by by Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín Rebekah...
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Also, please read Ebert's review of the 1994 film North.
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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...
View ArticleSF Greek Film Festival
Tonight I took in some movies at the San Francisco Greek Film Festival. There are many films I'd like to see, but this was the only night I had available. Three shorts and a feature:First up was...
View ArticleMy Two Minutes Of International Fame and Shame
So because I wrote Insults Every Man Should Know I was asked to speak on BBC5 about the weekend's row over swivel-eyed loons. I was told not to say the "f-word", the "c-word" or to "take the Lord's...
View ArticleInterview
Nine years ago this week, the hardcover edition of Move Under Ground (now also on Kindle for $2.99, cheap!) was released. To celebrate, kind of, here's an extensive interview with me over at the Weird...
View ArticleA reason to buy from amazon
Amazon is currently selling Love is the Law on pre-order for 35 percent off. This is a guaranteed price. If you have Amazon Prime and get free shipping, amazon will depending on where you live, either...
View ArticleWrite your own jokes
We are also just now entering the long-awaited second phase of the Founders Club at Galt's Gulch! The Founders Club includes first choice of a prime estate-sized lot ranging from approximately 15 to 25...
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Bullettime is now out as an audiobook via Audible.com (and via Audible UK as well—though it's not like they have a different reader with a British accent of some sort). Anyway, if you buy it from...
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Go Turks! The rough equivalent of shutting down Central Park in Manhattan or Hyde Park in London is not going well for Turkish capital. Oh, and here's why the working class remains important:Can you...
View ArticleBBC's Horrible Histories
Hmm, think someone at the United Kingdom's state-run media is a fan of The Smiths? Check out this song by, uh, Charles Dickens:
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STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS
When last we left the gang from Star Trek, the wacky kids had King Ralphed themselves into the command chairs of Enterprise and everybody loved them despite all the junk with timelines and Vulcan...
View ArticleAnother LOVE IS THE LAW blurb
Warren Ellis (GUN MACHINE, CROOKED LITTLE VEIN) writes: ""Absolutely, perversely brilliant...a fucked-up piece of work."Why not pre-order a copy? Things From Another World is the publisher-preferred...
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Retirement—A FAQ
It's been just about six months since I announced my retirement at New York's KGB Bar, and tonight I found that the story I read that night, "Slice of Life", will appear in the literary journal...
View ArticleWhere are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Even Urban Dictionary asked the famous question from Catch-22.Yossarian was a collector of good questions and had used them to disrupt the educational sessions Clevinger had once conducted two nights a...
View ArticleNell Robinson and the Rose of No Man's Land
Last night Olivia's friend took us to a show, supposedly to see Ramblin' Jack Elliot. He was there, but what we saw was something else altogether: a terrible war-song revue called Nell Robinson and the...
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Monday Quick Notes
The Bram Stoker Awards were handed out this weekend. The field was so weak that not even the the StrokerAwards parody twitter account bothered to play along. I was happy to see Mort Castle finally...
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