Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 33
February 15, 2011
February 14, 2011
Little Miss Zombie
Here's the interview with me on the Little Miss Zombie website, one of a series of interviews running all month in honor of Women in Horror.
February 13, 2011
Laird Barron and Nicholas Kaufmann read at KGB February 16th
A rare appearance on the east coast by Laird
FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
present:
Laird Barron is the author of The Imago Sequence, and Occultation, two horror collections published by Night Shade Books. The Imago Sequence won The Shirley Jackson Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
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Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of General Slocum's Gold, Walk In Shadows, Hunt at World's End, and Chasing the Dragon, as well as monthly columns on the horror genre that appeared in Fear Zone and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. His story "Under the Skin" will be reprinted later this year in All American Horror Stories of the 21st Century: The Best of the First Decade.
Wednesday February 16th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.
Partially supported by Cemetery Dance publications
FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
present:
Laird Barron is the author of The Imago Sequence, and Occultation, two horror collections published by Night Shade Books. The Imago Sequence won The Shirley Jackson Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
&
Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of General Slocum's Gold, Walk In Shadows, Hunt at World's End, and Chasing the Dragon, as well as monthly columns on the horror genre that appeared in Fear Zone and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. His story "Under the Skin" will be reprinted later this year in All American Horror Stories of the 21st Century: The Best of the First Decade.
Wednesday February 16th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.
Partially supported by Cemetery Dance publications
movies
No Reservations with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart,and Abigail Breslin is (mostly) comedy about a brilliant but overly controlled chef in a french restaurant who is challenged by an unexpected addition to her life and by the pushiness and exuberance of the new sous-chef. Despite the lack of chemistry between Zeta-Jones and Eckhart, it's very enjoyable. And moving.
City Island stars Andy Garcia as a dissatisfied prison card who longs to be an actor, Julianna Margulies is his wife who thinks he's cheating on her. They and their two kids are totally dysfunctional as a family and when Garcia brings home a young convict to help him fix up the back shed, they dysfunction grows into operatic complications. It all takes place on City Island, the strange little beach town in the middle of the Bronx. Definitely worth seeing. Garcia and Margulies are both good.
And today I saw the Academy award nominated short animated movies (and two "commended highly" films). The best of the shorts were The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang and The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. I predict The Gruffalo will win although I would love the Tan to win as I love his animated art. The longest movie is 27 minutes, the shortest 6 and most are at least fun, and some are very clever. There was only one really bad one. URS from Germany. I had already seen Bill Plympton's "commended Highly" movie The Cow Who wanted to be a Hamburger at a private screening he held several months ago at Hill Country restaurant. (and I might have mentioned it back then). Clever, funny, and scary. I think the music is different from it was in the earlier screening. I didn't care for the new score.
City Island stars Andy Garcia as a dissatisfied prison card who longs to be an actor, Julianna Margulies is his wife who thinks he's cheating on her. They and their two kids are totally dysfunctional as a family and when Garcia brings home a young convict to help him fix up the back shed, they dysfunction grows into operatic complications. It all takes place on City Island, the strange little beach town in the middle of the Bronx. Definitely worth seeing. Garcia and Margulies are both good.
And today I saw the Academy award nominated short animated movies (and two "commended highly" films). The best of the shorts were The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang and The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. I predict The Gruffalo will win although I would love the Tan to win as I love his animated art. The longest movie is 27 minutes, the shortest 6 and most are at least fun, and some are very clever. There was only one really bad one. URS from Germany. I had already seen Bill Plympton's "commended Highly" movie The Cow Who wanted to be a Hamburger at a private screening he held several months ago at Hill Country restaurant. (and I might have mentioned it back then). Clever, funny, and scary. I think the music is different from it was in the earlier screening. I didn't care for the new score.
February 11, 2011
February 10, 2011
Save Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum!
Please take a minute and sign this petition or otherwise contact the Baltimore Mayor's office. I was given a tour of the house/museum after my appearance at the Poe Bicentennial in 2009. Baltimore Cuts Poe House Funding .
The irony is that the football team, Baltimore Ravens was named after you know who's poem and they've been given subsidies galore.
Pass it on.
via Tor.com
and Nicole Cushing
The irony is that the football team, Baltimore Ravens was named after you know who's poem and they've been given subsidies galore.
Pass it on.
via Tor.com
and Nicole Cushing
Save Baltimore's Edgar Allen Poe House & Museum!
Please take a minute and sign this petition or otherwise contact the Baltimore Mayor's office. I was given a tour of the house/museum after my appearance at the Poe Bicentennial in 2009. Baltimore Cuts Poe House Funding .
The irony is that the football team, Baltimore Ravens was named after you know who's poem and they've been given subsidies galore.
Pass it on.
via Tor.com
and Nicole Cushing
The irony is that the football team, Baltimore Ravens was named after you know who's poem and they've been given subsidies galore.
Pass it on.
via Tor.com
and Nicole Cushing
Freak accident
Luckily nothing alive was injured.
I came home from a fine dinner at Tea and Sympathy with the lovely Genevieve Valentine and we heard weird hammering going on either next door or upstairs. Then I noticed one piece of art crooked on the wall in my living room next to my computer and then that a larger, heavier picture was on the floor between couch and cocktail table where I work. I was relieved to see that the glass hadn't broken and Genevieve kindly rehung the photograph on the wall. It wasn't until I sat down that I noticed a long scratch/crack on my 19 inch monitor. Obviously, the framed photograph bounced off the screen onto the floor.
I knocked on the door next door and my new neighbor popped out. I explained what happened and she was quite upset--workers hired by Ikea were installing a wardrobe in her bedroom, which is on the other side of my living room wall. They were hammering away. She told me the worker phoned his manager. She took phone photos of the crack and I looked up information on replacing the monitor. The company is phoning her back tomorrow and we both hope they will take care of this (she has lots of other complaints about them).
I knew today was too easy.
I came home from a fine dinner at Tea and Sympathy with the lovely Genevieve Valentine and we heard weird hammering going on either next door or upstairs. Then I noticed one piece of art crooked on the wall in my living room next to my computer and then that a larger, heavier picture was on the floor between couch and cocktail table where I work. I was relieved to see that the glass hadn't broken and Genevieve kindly rehung the photograph on the wall. It wasn't until I sat down that I noticed a long scratch/crack on my 19 inch monitor. Obviously, the framed photograph bounced off the screen onto the floor.
I knocked on the door next door and my new neighbor popped out. I explained what happened and she was quite upset--workers hired by Ikea were installing a wardrobe in her bedroom, which is on the other side of my living room wall. They were hammering away. She told me the worker phoned his manager. She took phone photos of the crack and I looked up information on replacing the monitor. The company is phoning her back tomorrow and we both hope they will take care of this (she has lots of other complaints about them).
I knew today was too easy.
February 8, 2011
Poetic justice?
That was my first reaction to Man stabbed to death by cockfighting bird. My second? Go bird!!!!
