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December 6, 2017
Couple of Kind Reviews, and an Article
You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/sing... And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php... Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: “Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart …
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Superstition Review
New interview up: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/is...
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November 30, 2017
November 28, 2017
Comic book cameo for Mongrels
Check it out: So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows …
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November 26, 2017
Process
This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was …
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November 24, 2017
Twisted Sister & Alice Cooper & Tom Savini & Bobcat Goldthwait?
I know, I know: this ever really HAPPENED? Apparently so. This isn’t some Mandela Effect thing, and we’re nowhere near April. Not sure how I never knew about this, but glad I do know. And, yeah, the song here’s maybe a little guitar-shy, but still, the video’s nothing but fun: I found it in this …
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The Plural of “Venus”
This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago in southwest France. Since its discovery in 1894, there has been much debate about the sex and whether he/she is …
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File under: Costumes I Need
This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I …
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November 21, 2017
The Nine Circles of (Mis-)Usage Hell
I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me, and one I’m asking for every day, pretty much. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/d...
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November 20, 2017
Words per minute
I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off the throttle more than I should. Way back, when instant-messaging first came around? I used to write chat scripts to talk to different hardly-remote people, …
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