Hal Duncan's Blog, page 15

Jesus Christ Superstar

The correct order of songs (regardless of what Messrs. Webber and Rice might say):

Act One

1. Overture
2. Pilate's Dream
3. I Don't Know How to Love Him
4. What's the Buzz
5. Strange Thing Mystifying
6. Everything's Alright
7. Heaven On Their Minds
8. Then We Are Decided
9. Simon Zealotes
10. Poor Jerusalem
11. Hosanna
12. The Temple
13. This Jesus Must Die
14. Damned for All Time

Act Two

1.

Happy New Year! Yer Happy News!

Aye, Happy New Year indeed, and man is it starting off as one with a bunch of irons in the fire. First off, I note that Queers Dig Time Lords is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, containing my essay, "The Doctor: A Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the Who," which should amuse some at the GSFWC no end with its grudging reconciliation with aforesaid Time Lord. It

A Christmas Message

Being an excerpt from TESTAMENT, for the benefit of Pope Benedict, Cardinal O'Brien, Bishop Davies and every other motherfucker:

Then one of the lawyers answered.
    Rabbi, he said, saying thus you reproach us also.
    Woe to you also, he said, you lawyers! For you laden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
    [And on Fox

Icarus & Wilde Stories

Other fictional shenanigans. I'm not in the latest Icarus, but you should still buy it:



Peter Dube, Rick Bowes and Chris Barzak... damn straight you should buy it.

And while Icarus doesn't feature yours truly, this on the other hand, Wilde Stories 2013, which I just got a wee PDF ARC of, does:



And the table of contents looks tasty...
"Breakwater in the Summer Dark" by L Lark"The Keats

Revelator

So Matt Cheney & Eric Schaller have released a special Lovecraft issue of The Revelator...



And featured in it is Laird Barron's "More Dark" a short story including reference to a suspiciously Scottish and suspiciously drunken "Hal" (amid a slew of other similarly suspicious references.) If this is indeed a Tuckerisation, however, I must protest most strongly at the apparent heterosexuality of

For Mike Huckabee

Should we be shocked, you ask of us,when children spilled from yellow busclamour at bell with books to classwhere teacher drones no baptist mass --Should we be stunned, you ask, if wehave schemed our schools religion free,no prayer, no perdition taught,no torture threat for kids who're caught --Without the dread that we must standone day before a throne, be damned,should we, without God's

For Bryan Fischer

God is a gentleman, you say,who will not walk the lockered hallsunless the teachers start each daywith pleas of children for their lives.We told him to get lost, you say,from graduations, football games,and God now hangs his ounce of careon our restoring all he claims.Unless the children beg and prayhe will not stride where not desired,he will not raise a hand to staythe executions with a

An Open Letter to Supreme Court Justice Scalia

Dear Antonin,

Let me start by offering an answer to your question. "If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality," you asked us, "can we have it [sic] against murder? Can we have it [sic] against other things?" I know, I know, you meant the question rhetorically, but no matter. As official spokesqueer for the Elders of Sodom, I am happy to clear this up for you, clarify our position

Scruffian Rhymes

Ratatat Dan, the butcher's brat,Give him a drum and a soldier's hat,A Stamp and a shilling and half a cup.We all fall down, but Dan gets up!***The cowboy was an Indian.The princess was a knight.The pirate and the ninjaSailed a ship upon a kite.The ship it had a tree as mast,The tree it had a house.The pilot was an astronautWho used to be a mouse.One with his peepers open,Four on the skive.One

Rule 7 for New Writers

Image and Import


If I can say anything important to writers who are still learning the craft of fiction, it's this: imagery does not occur on the writer's page; it occurs in the reader's mind.

-- Steven King




So the other day I came across a Steven King article on description, with the above quote, which rather echoes my own contention that narrative is not a static object but a dynamic