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Film 401 – Robotic Pitfalls in Contemporary Cinema

Got a new thing I wrote called Film 401 – Robotic Pitfalls in Contemporary Cinema up on the comedy site Defenestration.

This piece goes out to my main lady, Liz, who can't stand Will Smith.

Here's a little taster:

Because a three-hour class can be grueling, I allow the EATRs to feed during the break between movie and discussion. I find it disconcerting, though, to watch the robots empty bottles of live moths and grasshoppers into their awaiting mouths, to say nothing of the disposal-like...

Short Now up at A cappella Zoo – Hard Year for Everybody

A cappella Zoo has graciously posted my Fun Camp short, Hard Year for Everybody, along with about half of the rest of the print issue. Get some.

notnostrums Issue #4 is Live + Remix Camp

The issue has four of my Fun Camp shorts in it along with new stuff by:

Jensen Beach, Brian Mihok, James Haug, Jessica Fjeld, Matthew Rohrer, Dorothea Lasky, Marc Rahe, Boomer Pinches, Daniel Khalastchi, Emily Kendal Frey, Brian Foley, Alex Phillips, Rosanne Wasserman, Mike Young, Jen Tynes, Carson Cistulli, Matt Hart, Blueberry Morningsnow, Michael Comstock

I'm glad the issue is out because now I can do a post that's been in my "draft" folder for months. I remixed all my notnostrums shorts...

AWP

One for the baby book–my first AWP. Very excited to meet many online people I'm told exist in the world and to hang out on location with friends I see in person on a regular basis.

At the book fair, Jack Christian and I will man the UMass Press table. Come on by! I won't be able to tell you much about our titles but I will sell them to you for 30% off. (Or, on Saturday, more than 30% off.)

I'm also doing an elevator reading that Bradley Sands put together. From Bradley's post:

And introducing...

Two New FC Shorts in A cappella Zoo and decomP

Got my contributor copy of A cappella Zoo in the mail, featuring a Fun Camp short called "Hard Year for Everybody." It's got new stuff by Ben Loory, J.A. Tyler, Amber Sparks, and many others, and it looks great. There are also a couple of stories in both their original language and translation. There's something nicely disarming about opening up a new journal and seeing pages of Hebrew.

In more immediately gratifying news, another Fun Camp short called Remember to Breathe just went up in the n...