And I think I can say ‘cine­plex’ there — none of these are really indie, or at least didn’t end up that way. And, before I even list them, the caveats: I’ve yet to catch BORAT or PAN’S LABYRINTH or APOCALYPTO or INLAND EMPIRE or CHILDREN OF MEN or THE FOUNTAIN or the BLACK CHRISTMAS […]

Just a quick note: a friend wrote, asked what was up with me and sec­tion breaks, talk­ing that Ama­zon short “Gabriel.” So I looked, and instantly felt guilty for doing it, as I think it’s got to be some kind of uncool, me buy­ing my own thing, when that con­tributes to that thing’s Ama­zon rating. […]

I first read Pyn­chon when I was twenty-two, I think, between a B.A. and an M.A. The only rea­son I read him, too, was because I’d hit up a pro­fes­sor I trusted for a list of books I’d need to have read if I didn’t want to get laughed out of grad school. She of […]

An Ama­zon short, “Gabriel.” Would say some­thing about it here, but I think it’s all all­ready1 there. Only thing I didn’t say to/for them, I guess, was that, when I read their guide­lines and saw that there was a 10,000 word cap, I of course scoured my story direc­to­ries for some­thing just a touch over […]

as always, spoil­ers abound.1 Man, mix even parts Adap­ta­tion and The Won­der Boys, let Will Fer­rell shake it, and you’ve got some­thing a lot like Stranger than Fic­tion. And of course, as all movies about writ­ers of what­ever kind have to end, Stranger than Fic­tion pulls the same trick those two do. Or, that Get […]

I don’t have nearly enough time to devote to this now — I’m in the early stages of a study that hopes to finally con­clude whether the Bulletboy’s old “Smooth Up In Ya’” song1 (1989) really had hid­den sex­ual over­tones or not (next up: Warrant’s “Cherry Pie”) — but I feel I’ve got to say […]

Looks like, in pre-celebration for TURISTAS1, Demon The­ory pulled two reviews this week: & [ click em to hit the rvws ] Cool places each, though the reviews are kind of oppo­sites of each other. Any­way, it’s none other than Mike Bracken on the Toxic Uni­verse one. Which, I mean — for my first novel, I remem­ber telling […]