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Moron of the Week!
It's been a very tight race given the usual mess as losers and pretend victims hitting the Internet over the past few days, but this is the Moron of the Week!Shorter Moron of the Week—no more free...
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I ain't telling stories out of school, but if you get a chance to take a class with Nick, do so. He's a Rinzai type -- if you're not a Zen buff, Rinzai was the Zen master who founded the hard school of...
View ArticleSunday Quick Notes
Dark Faith is on sale tomorrow October 25th for 40 percent off at the publisher's website. I presume that the price is reduced at checkout. Check it out—it contains my story "The Last Words of Dutch...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
The train that took us to the World's Fair was dark green and military-looking in its public harrowed use. It was like a broken-down Nazi. New York didn't have to go around pleasing people.—from...
View ArticleThe Narrator by Michael Cisco
A few years ago I talked about The Traitor by Michael Cisco and some of you even ran out to buy that wonderful short novel. Well, I'm back to tell you about Cisco's follow-up The Narrator, in the hope...
View ArticleOff to World Fantasy
See some of you in Columbus, the bedbug capital of America, I hope.In the interim, enjoy this reprint of my essay of Poe houses: Tell-Tale Homes. Click an ad or two while you're there and help the...
View ArticleAt World Fantasy STOP
Pleased panel on Asian horror did not deteriorate to "And here's another crazy Asian monster you can use in your own stories" STOPToo many meals with French fries on the side STOPOnly one alcoholic...
View ArticleBack.
Home.WFC certainly was an event that occurred. I bet that someday I can get the twenty people I like in the same place without the other 1000.
View ArticleFor example, in Beowulf, one of th—OHMIGOD SPOILERS
I attended one panel as a participant at WFC and one as a spectator."Asian Horror" was the first, though it should have been called "Japanese folklore and Hong Kong cinema", as that is what we actually...
View ArticleMonday quick spam
If you'd like to win a free Haikasoru title, I'm holding a little contest! I hope some of you decide to play.Despite failing utterly to mention my story, I still got a big kick from The New Yorker...
View ArticleOh this election day
Though I don't partakeThough I worry that retail service in Berkeley will degenerate even moreI still have one thing to say.LEGALIZE IT.As far as the candidates, pfft. And by pfft I mean I'm voting for...
View ArticleFinally, Bay Area residents find a reason to riot!
Nothing's worse than black people rioting just because the cop who shot someone in the back on video got a light jail sentence.And nothing's BETTER than people of all races uniting and rioting because...
View ArticleQuote of the Day--Election Special
Jerry Frink is a gay rights advocate and a peacemaker, but the Secretary of State refused to let him define himself as a Gay Peacemaker, so he has no occupation listed on the ballot.
View ArticleMaybe you can take the boy out of Long Island...
...but not Long Island out of the boy. Tonight's otherwise tedious walk down through the Financial District from work to more work was rendered suddenly thrilling by a woman so tan as to be nearly...
View Articleoooh
The application for the second season of Work of Art insists that would-be contestants have a valid passport. Where will they go! I hope the tease is Paris but then they end up in Uzbekistan or something!
View ArticleCopyright follies
A friend of mine has a story to tell—her article on early modern apple pies of interest to medieval recreationists was copied wholesale and published in the ad-driven, newsstand-distributed, for-profit...
View ArticleNarcissistic Copyright Follies Follow-Up
Good work everyone on the Facebook pages http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/196994196748?v=wallYou know, last night when I wished that this would hit a blog that everyone in the...
View ArticleMercenary Thought
I wish 1/100th of the people having fun with Cooks Source would check out a copy of Haunted Legends.The other 99/100 can send Monica pie-money!
View Article2nd Street Baking Company
Are you in or around Turner Falls, MA? Please patronize 2nd Street Baking Company, a firm that probably got a fair number of phone calls and a lot of email today due to a magazine they used to...
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