Posted in Day to day on October 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
News today from Chicago-based publisher of fiction and all around badasses Featherproof Books. They just released Jonathan Messinger’s Hiding Out this past month, which at the onset, (I hope to get deeper into it this weekend) is quite good. Their new title forthcoming in 2008 is Susannah Felts’ This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record(I’m loving [...]
Posted in Day to day on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
(from Yahoo News)
Kucinich questions Bush’s mental health
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush’s mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.
“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health,” Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer’s [...]
Posted in Day to day, Writings on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve added a nifty new blogroll on the right side of this page. There you will find a majority of my writings for your viewing pleasure, all arranged in an easy to use list, if you will. It felt strange compiling this. I had to go back and get the links to all the stuff [...]
Posted in Writings on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The famed Chicago blog, What to Wear During An Orange Alert, informers of all things lit-based and otherwise in the Windy City, gave me a nice little shout out in their “Watch List” segment yesterday. I’ve been featured in said segment a few times, but it’s especially nice this time for some reason ( I [...]
Posted in Day to day on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
After months of movies, none of which looked any good to me, most of them horror/slasher/killer/psycho-nut-bar-serial kills-his-way-through-a-small-town kind of jobs, finally there are some quality looking films forthcoming. The list is below. Check them out. Google them.
(from Yahoo.com)
1. Lars and the Real Girl. Looks like man falls in love with mannequin because he is emotionally [...]
Posted in Day to day on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In no real order, just some things I’ve been admiring or digging.
1. Argyle socks. It’s cold here now. Well, cool at least, Fall-like, which I was really worried was going to skip out on me this year. But it’s here. It’s forty plus degrees and sunny and argyle socks feel incredible and look even better [...]
Posted in Day to day, Writings on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The title of this here blog is quite telling isn’t it? Simple, almost, dare I say, Carver-esque? Or in light of a recent article in the New York Times, which I’m sure many of you have read by now, dare I say Gordon Lish-esque?
Anyway, bad jokes aside, I have a new story at Slow Trains in their Fall [...]
Posted in Writings on October 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So I’ve gotten a whole mess of rejection letters (sadly, none of which are any good for posting on this site, as most have been spot-on in their critique and most polite) for the group of stories I worked on over the summer. However, I’ve managed to land a couple of these stories in some [...]
Posted in Day to day, Writings on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
is the title of a new story by friend and kind soul Spencer Dew now up at The Cerebral Catalyst. I’ve had a couple of stories there, and I hope to have more soon. It’s a fine publication. Anyway, read Dew’s story. Good things.
Posted in RAGAD on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
So this weekend there is a reading. I like to call them shows. This show will be a good one. It stars Chicago scribe Ben Tanzer and myself. Ben will be reading from his novel Lucky Man. I’ll be reading some short story or another. To make this better, there is a raffle. Free books. [...]
