For a long time now I’ve gone to bed early For a long time now I’ve been writ­ing “title shot” in the back of every book I read, along with a/the page num­ber. Most, any­way. All it means is that this (page) is the first time the title of the book appears in the book itself. […]

That Grant Mor­ri­son is six dif­fer­ent kinds of smart That Philip K. Dick was that plus one That Slavoj Zizek should be in a novel with the two of them That this is pretty freaky But not as freaky as this That who­ever directed The Killers’ “When You Were Young” video knows things about where story and […]

Just a cou­ple of quick links: Wooden Spoon’s posted a cool Demon The­ory review In antic­i­pa­tion & cel­e­bra­tion of Hal­loween, that fifth page of the Demon The­ory quiz-thing’s been very updated I just last night rung that 100-page bell on the novel I started a few days ago, which has a title still prob­a­bly too tentative […]

Just think­ing about what I said in that last post, about how I don’t do reviews because I’m pretty sure I’d set my stan­dards impos­si­bly high, just so I could shoot down every book in my path. That may be a lit­tle too broad a state­ment, though — I don’t mean to sug­gest that all […]

Well, I mean, yeah, because he’s got titles like THE LUST LIZARD OF MELANCHOLY COVE and PRACTICAL DEMONKEEPING. These are what orig­i­nally got me peel­ing his books up from the shelves back when­ever ago. Years already, I guess. Too, though, I’ve yet to read a CMoore book that hasn’t made me smile, and then impressed […]

not based on a true story So I read more fic­tion than non-fiction. It’s a moral fail­ing, I know: I pre­fer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fic­tion. Makes sense to read it, yeah? Where else am I going to learn tech­nique, cue into lit­tle nar­ra­tive shuf­fles this or that writer pulled off, all […]

JUKED #4 (print) is out. Just showed up in my mail­box today. Very pretty. In there with a cou­ple of peo­ple I know, even: Alan Rossi and Patrick Whit­fill. The story is that “Zom­bie Sharks with Metal Teeth”-one. A story about a man and his mouse. Which, that’s not fig­u­ra­tive lan­guage there, though I guess […]

Of all the foot­notes I cut from DEMON THEORY, there’s an OLIVER TWIST / ANIMAL HOUSE one that I maybe miss the most. There was this fun, ceramic-pig ori­ented Pynchon-one too though, I sup­pose, which scut­tled through PLAYBOY and I for­get all-where. And more and more. This, though, it’s one that I never actu­ally put […]

Which is a fancy stu­pid way of say­ing that DEMON THEORY’s back on Ama­zon, thanks to Melanie at MacAdam/Cage. not quite search­able yet, but there again, any­way, mostly alive. So, to every­one who’s been ask­ing why the world hates them and me this much, as to bury the book in a data­base: we’re the favored […]

Just a quick note that Home Ground: Lan­guage for an Amer­i­can Land­scape, edited by Barry Lopez is out. I have either twenty or twenty-one def­i­n­i­tions in it, can’t recall (twenty-one, I think, which may be the most, who knows — my copy’s loaned out already). Any­way, click the pic to go to Amazon’s page. Also, […]