Columnated Ruins Domino

My short story “The Ship” (which first appeared in Interzone) can be read for free here.

If you voted for George W. Bush you are not allowed to read it.

I’ve haven’t been doing much writing lately.

Been busy packing up myriad boxes of books. I donated about 10 boxes of books that have been lingering in the basement for the last 4 years, and books I just know I will never get around to reading. I have about another 50-60 boxes to be packed and moved by the movers. Moving in a little more than a month.

Wrote 125-word flash story called “Epitaph” and submitted it today for a very cool intertubes project. Fingers crossed.

I’m working on a 20,000-word novella for another hush-hush project that is coming up.

Finished another 15,000 words on my Krakatoa novel.

I finally picked up Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It is phenomenal. Anyone that can riff on Jack Kirby, D&D, and hot chicas is OK in my book. The writing is the kind of good that, as a writer, makes you a little angry, but in a good way. I highly recommend it.

Time’s Eye, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall

The Black Dossier, Alan Moore

There is a great little article about Weird Tales at SciFi Wire.

This is just the tippety-tip of the iceberg. Jeff VanderMeer has a post up about books, and what you do when you start to have too many books (if such a state of being exists). It is clear that there is a vast difference between bibliophiles and other people.

The hawks are coming. They are implacable. They are hungry.

Sara and I saw Gary Louris last night. It was a great show. He played a lot of songs from his new solo album, Vagabonds, plus a lot of Jayhawks hits. “Waiting for the Sun” from Hollywood Town Hall, “Blue” “I’d Run Away” “Two Hearts” from Tomorrow the Green Grass, and “Angelyne,” “Stumbling Through the Dark,” and “Tailspin” from the phenomenal Rainy Day Music. Louris has a great voice for playing live, and every time we see him play, it is a great show.

This is second time I saw him at the Somerville Theater. He played a few years ago with Mark Olson.