I want a bicycle
Ξ April 11th, 2008 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Pants.
Sucka
Ξ April 10th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
I kept seeing commercials for “The Ruins” with a King blurb calling it “the best horror novel of the new century,” and I was all, “What about Heart-Shaped Box? Daaaaang, that’s cold.” Plus I’d never heard of “The Ruins.” Called a few horra-minded friends, nope, they hadn’t heard of it either. After discussing the merits and drawbacks of the fine view up our own asses, I volunteered to get the book, because I am a sucka and a martyr. And nosy.
On my Sony Reader ™, natch. Anyway, The Ruins was published in ‘06, so I guess that wasn’t THAT cold of a cut. I’ll de-bristle. And it was aiight. I could tell twenty pages in that the movie would be Screamin’ Pretties In Peril, doing a real disservice to the book, which focuses more on the psychological states of the Pretties in Peril.
I have two good projects on tap and both have FAR DISTANT deadlines, hotdamn.
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Regional Dialect Meme:
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WHC 08
Ξ March 25th, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Since I’m once again dying of jealousy that I won’t be at WHC this coming weekend, I’m entertaining myself by proving why I shouldn’t attend such events anyway. This is what I’d be doing + what I’d say if I were on certain panels.
Two things
Ξ February 22nd, 2008 | → 5 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
First up: Vince Liaguno from Dark Scribe is a class act.
Second: David Niall Wilson has been posting interviews with each of the Sirens contributors at Macabre Ink. My interview (my first!) went live today, and Loren Rhoads and Maria Alexander both gave great interviews, as well. Christa’s is coming soon!
Sins of the Sirens reviews, just in time for, uh, Thursday
Ξ February 14th, 2008 | → 45 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
David Niall Wilson gives Sins of the Sirens an in-depth review at Macabre Ink.
Wil at HY is disappointed because he didn’t find a “new female writer” worth his time. (He also calls stories that appeared in such places as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and Hot Blood, and many stories that received honorable mentions in YBF&H, “stuff better reserved for their lockboxes.” Trunk stories. Heh.) He even finds time to insult Nancy Kilpatrick for no reason at all - she’s not even in the book.
Vampire poet Derek Clendering appears only to have read half of the book before his deadline at Dark Scribe (he doesn’t address anything by half of our authors.)
Ayup.
Shadow of the Colossus
Ξ January 23rd, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Right, so this morning I finally finished Shadow of the Colossus. I’d bought it when it came out, played through eight colossi, and finally was just so depressed that I quit playing. I hated killing them. They’d done nothing to me, and they only seemed interested in protecting themselves. As soon as Wander left them alone, they went back to doing their colossal thing. I just felt rotten and cruel, and that resurrecting some dead girl wasn’t worth what I was doing.
But I really *did* want to see the ending. I was bothered for the year-plus away from the game - I wanted to see some kind of retribution. I wanted the ending to be that the colossi were, perhaps, the souls of other resurrected loved ones, and that the finale would be that our sleeping princess would rise as a colossus herself, or something.
I was late meeting friends the other night and when I explained that I had to beat a colossus, was asked how the game was. I told them it was depressing: you, Agro, and the colossi are the only things in the world, and you develop a real emotional attachment to them. Hell, I even loved that you could pat Agro kindly, and made sure to do it often.
At about 6:30 this morning I’m playing and an event took place in the game that made me absolutely wail, no no no, no! I threw a total tantrum - I pitched the controller at the (empty) dog bed, declared that I hated this game and would not play any more, and then went out on the porch and *wept.* Over pixels. And I do not give a fuck that weeping over pixels is stupid - it’s no different than weeping every time Gage gets hit by the damn semi truck.
Anyway, I eventually gathered myself and finished the game. I won’t spoil it for anyone who cares.
I love fighting games - Tekken and Soul Calibur. I like wild hack-n-slash mayhem like Otogi 2 and fast, fun things like Shinobi. But this is the first game that’s ever engaged me emotionally to the point that first I had to quit, and then I had to cry. Thanks, game designers, for fucking me right up.
Sins! Sirens! Woo!
Ξ January 23rd, 2008 | → 8 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
My contributor’s copies of Sins of the Sirens came today, and my oh my, they’re pretty books. I love the cover art!
In case anyone was wondering, my contributions are:
- “The Wild,” the second story I ever had published. It appeared only in Carpe Noctem Magazine in 1998.
- “Close,” my Edegawa Rampo homage, which appeared only in Damned: An Anthology of the Lost. From Tracy Vonder Brink’s review of Damned for Joe Bob Briggs’ site: ”
- “Close” by Mehitobel Wilson would make a great “Tales from the Crypt” episode. A hotel employee devises an ingenious way to spy on amorous guests with some unforeseen consequences. It’s deliciously nasty.
My east-coast ass missed the signing at Dark Delicacies last week. If you missed it, too, dig this:
FEB. 23, 2008, 3 PM
Maria Alexander and Loren Rhoads will perform live readings from Sins of the Sirens (and, of course, sign books) at Borderlands Books in San Francisco.
Apologies for all the pimping, but I figured that after nearly ten years of publishing, it was about time I learn HOW to pimp. I’ve never bothered to do it before.
(I also never bothered to vanity-search, which is why I never saw that awesome mention of “Close” until tonight. Hee!)
Horra!omg.
Ξ December 30th, 2007 | → 5 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Unrelated:
Me bleeding (seriously, I have no idea what cut me and I said “haaayblut!”) and being randomly cinematic:
And the trailer for the short film adaptation of “The Mannerly Man” - no, seriously -
Yeah. I know. Jonathan Miller made some dude *crouch on a pole and act,* wut.
Many legs
Ξ December 26th, 2007 | → 11 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
I sneezed over 40 times in the last five minutes. I say “over” because I started counting after a handful (ew) of sneezes.
Then I blew my nose really, really hard and something black with a lot of frondlike legs came out. Huh. Wonder how long that’s been there?
I didn’t see a single human being on Christmas day. I saw, instead, dogs and ferrets and cats and a long, involved dream about jellyfish and horned gryphons in a Hong Kong shopping mall.
And it was, oddly, the first Christmas I can recall on which I felt really connected to my friends.
And the first one in which I had some kind of caterpillar up my nose.
Yay holidays!
Pimping like the wind!
Ξ December 20th, 2007 | → 15 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
I’m thrilled to be a part of SINS OF THE SIRENS, a four-author collection from Dark Arts Books. My fellow authors are Loren Rhoads, Maria Alexander, and Christa Faust. Hella good company, I must say! My contributions include a couple of rare reprints and a - holy shit - a brand-new story. I’d taken a couple years off from writing, but John Everson and some other friends kicked my ass and made me write something for you guys.
Learn all about it RIGHT HERE, and preorders are awesome because you get free shipping if you do it through Dark Arts by Dec. 31st. There are story excerpts as well!
It’s also up for preorder at Amazon, here:
Woohoo!
Also, Maria, Christa, and Loren will be reading and signing at Dark Delicacies on Jan 19th:
2:00pm
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
1-888-DARKDEL
I won’t be there because I live waaaaaay on the other side of the world, goddammit.
And in totally un-writing-related news, I finally got my Etsy jewelry store store up and running. There’s a lot more stuff to come, but I have about eight minutes’ worth of good jewelry-shooting light a week, so photographing the pieces has been troublesome.
But if you like sparkly stuff, go look!
