Justin Sirois's Blog, page 43

Operation Blitzkrieg

[Vice] "The hacking/general mischief collective Anonymous is pretty ahead of the curve when it comes to scary fashions. Completely unfazed by the hotness of fascist women, a few months ago the group declared war against the many Nazi-loving websites that have begun to flood the internet, with something they called Operation Blitzkrieg and later with a website dedicated to leaking fascists' personal data called Nazileaks."
http://www.vice.com/read/alec-empire-interviews-anonymous-op-blitzkrieg-...

Thank God for IEDs?

Unbelievable. 

Iraq war reconstruction - $8 billion wasted

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/17/12795510-iraq-war-reconstruction-6-billion-to-8-billion-wasted-us-official-says?lite

Iraq photo of the day

outstanding review of Falcons on the Floor on "...and a little wine"

"This novel is Chekov's gun on steroids. What Sirois pulls off in Falcons on the Floor's third act is an ending unlike any war novel I've read since The Things They Carried. I don't offer that praise lightly."
http://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-falcons-on-floor-by-justin.html

Adam Novy reviews Falcons on the Floor for The Rumpus

"Sirois makes no political speeches and his characters are totally overwhelmed and lack the language to describe what they have lost, the novel may seem grim, but its single-minded focus on the damage done to civil life by war, the negation of the social, gives the novel both a critical position and a ruthless emotional power."
http://therumpus.net/2012/07/falcons-on-the-floor-by-justin-sirois/

Iraq photo of the day

Iraq photo of the day

The Last Book of Baghdad update - "It's when desperation is mistaken for evil that evil becomes most desperate"

After 17 months of work, I'm about 10-15 pages from finishing the first draft. One thing I've learned from this story is pacing. Falcons on the Floor moves pretty slow in comparison to its spin-off; there's way more action and the tension is non-stop from basically page one. I also pulled away from the violence in Falcons. The new novel doesn't. The violence is a key driver for the two intermingling plots. 
What surprises me the most is how a minor...

jailhouse

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0955862078/?tag=svpply01-20