Typography for Lawyers As a person that prints out manuscripts (and puts together photocopied ‘zines) and mails them out, the idea of expressing professionalism through typesetting interests me. I’ve been pretty loyal to the Arial font for a good number of years now, unless the guidelines demand Courier. I don’t use standard Courier or Courier [...]

Merry Christmas everyone.  I’m getting primed for New Years Eve and things will probably slow down even more around here while I sort out the issues with my web-development stuff.  Expect Echoes and Mirrors to move soon.  Also, I’m not sure if Craig has plans to post here anymore – he just started a new [...]

It appears that I’ve been completely locked out of my dreamhost account. I was looking to get the Hobson’s Choice site back up and running because, gasp, I’m actually going to release issue 5. It will make it possible for me to receive submissions again, too. But sadly, this may take more time and effort [...]

What follows is fiction, originally in issue 2 of Hobson’s Choice. “Ayn Rand, you bitch, you fucked Greenspan and left me in the cold, begging for change.” The professor announced from the lectern. I had my cell-phone open, trading text-messages with a girl I had met over the weekend but this had caught my attention. [...]

Where did Lucy purchase her new vagina? Ryan Call now has a promotional offer for No Colony issue 1. All you have to do is buy a copy and he’ll send you a free copy of Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants, which is an incredible collection of imagist/surrealist and hyperlanguaged stories. I read a lot [...]

I finished the cover for issue 5. There is a wonderful artist out there who will deserve a lot of love for this. I owe her a couple of beers by this point, I think. It is going to look fucking amazing. I started going through the email trough to respond to all of those [...]

I actually got around to reading some submissions for Hobson’s Choice #5 tonight. There have been a few that made me think I want this, and immediately fire off an acceptance. That being said, go ahead and submit something. Let me get lost in your dream. So once I get my tracking spreadsheets up to [...]

Read it here.