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Vice and the Will to Offend
I always laugh when I think of Vice Magazine, which despite actually being the arm of an obnoxious international lifestyle marketer* has some fairly interesting content—both political and cultural. Its...
View ArticleLies
The only question is who Orson Scott Card is lying to—himself, or the people who'd watch this video. A story in Writers of the Future is better than launching with a novel? It's the best way to launch...
View ArticleSalinger
Have you seen the trailer for Salinger?Pretty intense music, eh? One expects a spaceship to crash into the Empire State Building or something. What secrets shall be revealed? Probably the existence of...
View ArticleNew LOVE IS THE LAW blurb
Man, when was the last time I updated this blog twice in one day? Back before Twitter, which consumes a lot of this "Hey, lookit this news article" energy, I'd occasionally have as many as five or six...
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"Eureka!" in WHERE THY DARK EYE GLANCES
I got my contributor copy of Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, coming soon from Lethe Press. See?It includes my story "Eureka!", which continues my obsession with the Poe Cottage in The Bronx. It's also one...
View ArticleWhat do you get the man who has everything?
Well, according to HootSuite, you get him a personal tweeter! Seem in email today:Hey,How much time do you spend on your social media content? An hour at the beginning of every day? A few days every...
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Diary of a Revolutionist: Day One
Dear Diary,The unthinkable has occurred. Democracy in my sacred homeland is dead. The will of the people, as expressed both through their representatives and via plebiscite, has been overturned by an...
View ArticleThursday Quick Notes and Links
Today I got my money from audible.com, so am reminded to alert you, once again, that Bullettime has an audio book. It also does that thing where you can go back and forth between the audio and the...
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Locus Awards
The Future is Japanese did not win a Locus Award, nor did Ken Liu's story from it, "Mono No Aware." Nevertheless, a good time was had by all. Congratulations to all the winners.It was very hot in...
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This is the End
When watching This is the End the other day, I just kept thinking. o O (I wonder what http://www.capalert.com thinks of this movie.) Sadly, ol' CAPpy's ministry is inactive at the moment, but surely...
View ArticleMatt Borne
I missed the news while I was away—Matt Borne has died. Borne was a minor wrestler who managed to turn one of the dumber gimmicks into an icon of an era. You see, Matt Borne was the original Doink the...
View ArticleLocals: BART strike
Demand that the BART board of directors go back to the negotiating table: (510) 464-6095.I will not be hosting a discussion of strikes or unions on this blog. If you want to whine that you don't have a...
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Gaiman excerpt, a four-word review
Neil Gaiman is now big enough to make the cover of Poets and Writers, see?(Blew up a thumbnail.)This is important because P&W rarely deals with genre fiction. I squeezed in a profile of Kelly Link...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Links
Over at SFSignal, I discuss the "successors to Orwell" along with several other writers, editors, and tummlers. A topic which keeps getting more timely given that the US just stopped and frisked the...
View ArticleFriday Quick Notes
I am reading at Beastcrawl tomorrow, at the Hella Sexy event, at 1703 Telegraph, 8PM. Come on down. I'll be reading from Love is the Law.The BART strike has ended though there is no contract in place...
View ArticleHandsome Devil Table of Contents
Here is the table of contents for the forthcoming anthology Handsome Devil: Tales of Sin and Seduction (Steve Berman, ed.), the theme of which is stories about incubi. Not succubi. Incubi. "Lilac...
View ArticleDEEPEST, DARKEST EDEN
Been busy doing not so much lately. Took a bagua class at an anarchist infoshop today—it was interesting. Walked around. Ate at Rudy's Can't Fail for lunch. That sort of thing. Anyway, yet another...
View ArticleBoycotting artists and political consciousness
It is not unusual to find artists on theleft (at least the self-identified left) who are very wary of the idea of ideological boycotts of artists. That is, boycotts—or really, often just failures to...
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Friday Quick Notes
Here's an Indiegogo worth supporting, at least by me, as "Kathy Goes to Haiti" is one of my favorite stories:KATHY GOES TO HAITI is a feature film, which started as a narrative short set in Haiti, then...
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...when LJ would go down and when it came back we'd all rush over and start posting about how upset we were?
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