Posted in Books, Day to day on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some things I have been thinking about:
1. Saw Dewy Cox and Juno over the weekend. Good flicks, both of them, Juno just a hair better, in my opinion. Overall, I think it’s been a great year for movies. For music too, with new offerings from Modest Mouse, The Shins, Iron and Wine, and of course, the [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Friends on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Was out Christmas shopping yesterday and stumbled across the last and latest issue of ACM (Another Chicago Magazine). In it, among other fine pieces of writing, is a lovely little story by one Jeb Gleason-Allured, Chicago writer and co-editor of the THE2NDHAND. His story is called “Dioramas” and is about pre-teens on a class field-trip [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Day to day, Friends on December 17, 2007 | 7 Comments »
T’is that time of year when the endless recountings begin, when people chronicle the year in any number of ways in terms of where their interests lie. Normally I cringe at such things, but blog-friend Blake Butler posted the books he read during 2007 on his blog, and while I’m not going go to go [...]
Posted in Chi, Day to day, Friends, RAGAD, Readings on December 15, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Mark your calenders! Clear your calenders if need be, for the release party for RAGAD #5 is fast approaching. All the info is below. Frequent reminders will be posted. We hope to see you in January.
RAGAD Release Party #5.
Come together to see the launch of our fifth issue, which carries the superb story from Joliet [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Day to day, Friends on December 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was reading the blog of Chicago writer Megan Stielstra the other day. She was bemoaning the loss of Other Voices, a fine Chicago-based publication of short fiction that I will undoubtedly miss, while also teasing out her love of the short story form, and then going on to list some of her favorite short [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Friends on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a wonderful interview over at Orange Alert today with the great Susannah Felts. She talks about many things, including her new novel This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record, forthcoming from Featherproof Books in March 2008–she also mentions another surprise too, one that’s just as good if not much better than her [...]
Posted in Chi, Friends on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A new friend of mine via Goodreads, Chicago-dwelling Josh Honn, a man I hope to one day meet in person, has a spankin’ new blog called Killer Commas. Seriously folks, this blog is just a few days old, still pink, still smelling lovely. Ramblings and daily musings of the highest order is what one will [...]
Posted in Day to day on December 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(From McSweeneys.net)
James Bond
Films for the
George W. Bush Era.
BY CHRISTOPHER A. SMITH
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Live in Constant, Irrational Fear of Muslims and Let Die
Embryo Royale
A Narrow, Originalist View to a Kill
You Only Need to Show Your Boarding Pass Twice
From Gitmo With Love but Not Legal Representation
Find Osama Another Day. Or Don’t. Whatever.
Dr. No WMD
$250,000 Campaign Contribution [...]
Posted in Chi, Day to day, Friends, RAGAD on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Good friend and fine writer Peter Anderson–whose story, by the way, ‘Mercy Day,’ I will be publishing in RAGAD # 5, forthcoming in Januray–has a new story up on his blog, ‘The Copper Responds,’ one he wrote in response to a story by Corey Doctorow. Not a bad story at all here, and I tip my hat to [...]
