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July 28, 2014
Listen to This: Surreal Sermons
Jeremy Maddux conducts a wide-ranging interview with yours truly on his podcast, Surreal Sermons. I close out the show; segments one and two feature Leza Cantoral and Michael Allen Rose.
image courtesy of Surreal Sermons
The New Black at Reddit
The New Black Reddit AMA is underway. Participants include Stephen Graham Jones, Lindsay Hunter, Richard Thomas, and others. Leave a question and we’ll be along at 7pm EST to make with the answers.
image courtesy of Reddit
July 27, 2014
July 25, 2014
July 23, 2014
Swanwick Says
Michael Swanwick on writing:
“The thing is that there is not one single skill which we can call “writing”; there’s a large family of related skills which result in superficially similar end-products. What works for one writer will stop another one dead.”
photo via DC Comics
July 21, 2014
Listen to This: Billie Jean
Chris Cornell does a chilly cover of Billie Jean. Thanks to Jessica M. for the rec.
July 9, 2014
Listen To This: Mimic & Old Virginia
The folks at Miskatonic Musings talk about Del Toro’s Mimic and my short story, “Old Virginia.”
image courtesy of Miskatonic Musings
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formicate
PRONUNCIATION:
(FOR-mi-kayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To crawl like ants.
2. To swarm with ants.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin formicare (to crawl like ants), from formica (ant). Earliest documented use: 1854.
USAGE:
“Again, again, again, until you reach the inevitable conclusion of sky-rises, nuclear submarines, orbiting satellites, and Homo sapiens formicating the Earth.”
Laird Barron; Shiva, Open Your Eye; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Sep 2001.
See more usage examples of formicate in Vocabulary.com‘s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926-2004)
From
July 5, 2014
Read This: The Cosmic Eye on Books
Author John Fultz recommends some summertime reading, including The Light Is the Darkness. I’m flattered–John is doing great work in the weird lit business.
cover image via John Fultz
