not quite an aspect of avariceexcept to those most piouslips kept shutbelow toes, in the aira feminine specimenof particular ponderancelovely in lacesweet skin and hairsupple and softhark, even Hamlet remarkedupon such country matters! I just turned that in for my creative writing class. How many people will get it? Will the professor chastise me for [...]

Roissy tackles the freaks. I sadly worked with so many of these poor people while I was in the military. Many soldiers seek out ‘anything they can get’ simply because it is easy. Given the rapid and unforseen deployments, they are quite ready to pump and dump (provided they have any game). Many are naive [...]

I just found out over the last weekend that our local Barnes&Noble closed down. I had no idea that was even going to happen had even been there for a coffee and browsing about a month ago. I know that they’re not doing so hot right now and are looking at a terrible xmas season, [...]

Stephen King talks about God and ‘The Stand’: one of those staple books from my teen years. I think I’ve probably read it three or four times. That, and Gerald’s Game. I do enjoy a good vs. evil story -I mean, shit, they’re so abstract and polarized and fascinatingly perfect -even though I don’t think [...]

The new issue of Otoliths (#11) is up. Feast on some poetry this morning.

Featuring: me. Go forth and read issue #30. Specifically this: Esteban Canal’s Immortal Game as Applied to God. By me. Of course. Go read my story-it’s not really a story-read, motherfucker!

Carolyn Kellogg takes a stand against writing advice. The bottom line is that there are no hard & fast rules outside of the accepted in-house styles at magazines and newspapers, a realm ruled by and enforced by the copy editor. 16 Most fatal plants, all of which are common. Which is sort of disconcerting, because [...]

It’s about that time of year again. I’ll probably attempt 3+ subs a week for the month of October, mainly composed of work rejected by others. There is new work to mix into the lot and revisions of older work to reintegrate. And an updated CV to include among other things. Writing the cover-letters and [...]

The TimesOnline cracks me up: 10 Books Not To Read Before You Die I am pretty amused by the list, although I’ve failed entirely at wrapping my head around the logic behind the choices. The only argument I have with the list that I’d really take a stand on is that Fear and Loathing in [...]

David Foster Wallace, dead: He talked about how difficult it was to be a novelist in a world seething with advertisements and entertainment and knee-jerk knowingness and facile irony. He wrote about the maddening impossibility of scrutinizing yourself without also scrutinizing yourself scrutinizing yourself and so on, ad infinitum, a vertiginous spiral of narcissism — [...]