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July 14, 2013
July 13, 2013
Dark Delicacies Rescheduled!
Due to an unforeseen tanker fire (seriously), my appearance at Dark Delicacies in Burbank has been rescheduled from today at 3pm to tomorrow at 2pm.
Apologies.
Skinner Release Party at The Secret Headquarters
Tonight, 7pm.
Los Angeles.
Reading, trivia, prizes, and Wild Turkey.
Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport
He is, among many other things, one hell of an eloquent mother fucker. And I really don’t mean to be glib in that opinion. His ability to express himself like this makes a huge deference. True rhetoric is still a powerful tool. If you doubt that, go dig up a copy of then-Senator Obama’s keynote address to the 2004 Democratic convention and think about what that speech did for his career and what is has meant...
mscottphoto:
Author, Charlie Huston, for The Wall Street...
Author, Charlie Huston, for The Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles, CA / 2013
I linked this in a previous post, but it was a little chutes and ladders getting to the actual article. This is much easier.
As previously noted, there are a couple small inaccuracies: The cyber attack described in the book is, to the best of my knowledge, quite feasible, and there are no zombies in SLEEPLESS,
Also, I don’t usually look like I’m going to punch anyone who looks at me. Just from that side and in...
July 12, 2013
May I ask why you changed the format of the dialogue in your work? Just curious. Picked up Skinner, really excited to start! Thanks!
I never intended for the dash dialogue format to be a house style. I was, and still am, a very poor typist. When I was writingCaught Stealing, for my own entertainment, my fingers kept stumbling over the shift and quotation mark keys. So I stopped using them. I’d been reading a great deal of Cormac McCarthy and I liked the way his dialogue rolled down the page, but I did sometimes become confused when it switched back and forth between dialogue and short bursts of prose. I decided I’d do some...
U.S. Is Pressing Latin Americans to Reject Snowden
The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden from finding refuge in Latin America.
I’m going to quote at length from the end of this NY Times article because I feel as though the true lead has been buried here.
"Still, Washington’s push for extradition has poked at a sore spot for several countries that have sought the extradition of people wanted by their justice systems.
Mr. Correa has pointe...
mapmonger:
“‘Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat, Welches ist der...
“‘Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat, Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen’. By Heinrich Bunting. Woodblock, c.1581. Image size 10 x 141/4″ (254 x 362mm) plus title, text and margins. German text on verso."
I was a huge map geek when I was a kid. I loved looking in atlases, and I my favorite part of putting together a D&D adventure with my friends was making the maps. Spent lots of time burning the edges of crumpled paper, if you know what I mean.
Geek.
cinefamily:
David Lynch’s ultimate midnight movie screens July...
David Lynch’s ultimate midnight movie screens July 19
Info: http://tinyurl.com/ondc2as
Thanks, Cinefamily, my Halloween costume is complete months early this year.
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