The big day started early. I woke up at 6:15am! As in the morning. As in really early. Showered and out the door by 7:00 and waiting like a jackass in the freezing cold for 25 minutes for the fucking bus. I got to Newbury Comics at 7:45am and they were open early! I got [...]
I’m reading House of Chains by Steven Erikson, the fourth book in the excellent Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and Islington Crocodiles, the first short story collection from Paul Meloy, one of the best new writers of dark fantastical goodness.
Weird Tales has started doing cool, short video stories:
Here is a link to Tabblo with some pics.
Sara, aka Wine Bitch, blogs about the trip here and our great anniversary dinner here.
I, aka Book Bastard, write about why my passion for jambalaya led to an unfortunate culinary event in the City of Lights here.
I am working on a post about the joys of bookstores [...]
There are some days, days like today, in those long pauses between slow seconds when I fervently wish I were a Lobster Boy.
I am finally getting close to finishing the draft for the Hiram Grange novella. It has been much more difficult than I expected. The stuff the other Hiram writers are coming up with is top notch, and I want to make sure my story is equal to theirs, which, of course, gave me a lovely [...]
Sara and I are going to Paris in October for our 10th anniversary. We are staying in Montmartre for the Fête des Vendanges. We are still planning out our itinerary, but I have a sneaking suspicion that a bottle or two of wine will be consumed.
With terrifying and thrilling stories from Joseph D’Lacey, JG Faherty, Shaun Jeffrey, Joseph McGee, Sheldon S. Higdon, Tina Jens, Rob Davies, Phil Kuhlman, Ken Goldman, D. Harlan Wilson; an interview of Michael Marshal Smith; gut-wrenching art from Bart Willard; reviews by I.E. Lester and Chris Welch; a preview of Dario Argento’s MOTHER OF TEARS– the [...]
I will be having a new novella coming out soon, Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist.
It will be published by Shroud Publishing as part of a series of novellas featuring Hiram Grange.
Book One: Hiram Grange and the Village of the Damned, Jake Burrows
Book Two: Hiram Grange and the Hitler Gene, Scott Carr
Book Three: Hiram Grange [...]
blood heirs of malaria, and Prozac,Vietnam and booze;my muses are madmen all,i am drawn to them,or to the edge within,show me,not too close,just show me the line
and a derelict blesses cars,perhaps I’ll write a poem,and I read Shakespeare until my fingers bleed,because there are better places than here,there are better places than here.
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Somebody’s joy is full, and he looks a lot like me.
Brian Wilson
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom,
Hampton Beach, NH
Sun, Jul 13, 2008 08:00 PM
Finally, the big day is here. Moving into our new condo tomorrow. Up to our throats in boxes, but it will soon be done. While packing and going through old boxes stuffed with papers, I stumbled upon a treasure trove of juvenalia that I will be posting over the next few weeks: truly atrocious poems [...]
Worker 1: Where do you want to go to lunch?
Worker 2: Susan’s Deli Of Course
Worker 1: Of course? Wow, you are really certain of where you want to eat.
Worker 2: No! That’s the name. Susan’s Deli Of Course
Worker 1: Oh. My. God. That is so funny.
Worker 2: I know! Isn’t it so funny?
Worker 1: It [...]
This guy.
SF writer and blogger extraordinaire John Scalzi had a contest on his blog Whatever to win an advance copy of his new book Zoe’s Tale (which is set in the universe of his phenomenal Old Man’s War.)
We were tasked with revealing what really happened on August 19, 1994.
I sent two entries and was one of [...]
My beloved Sara is a bitch. A Wine Bitch, that is. Check out her oenophilic posts at the new Culture Bitch blog! The website is still being built, but the blog is up. Go get your drink on!
Rumor has it I will be a Book Bastard, too.
Gus took the Beer Bastard, the bastard.
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A clever robot kills his master and makes it look like a suicide.
You’re next.
Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. If I believed in Gods, he would be one of them.
Clarke was a very major SF author for me. Still is. Indeed, as a precocious teen, I read everything I could get my little hands on. Fountains of Paradise. Childhood’s End. 2001. Rendezvous with Rama. Imperial Earth. All were [...]