As part of my quest to not write any reviews, either book or movie, I sub­mit this by way just of sug­ges­tion: William J. Cobb’s Good­night, Texas (Unbri­dled Books, who, going by this, man, they pro­duce some seri­ously clean books. And pretty too. If I’m not mis­taken, they even com­mis­sioned the paint­ing for the cover […]

click here for some real happiness:

It’s a bad/wonderful hole to fall in, but man, I need these, just to set them up with my Mul­der & Scully action fig­ures: then of course I’ll just nab these too, and be in busi­ness: and, man, all the patches I need, I don’t have near enough jeans to take them all. and I’ve […]

“In a great turn­around, upstart Cor­mac McCarthy’s novel The Road, billed as some­thing of an homage to The Omega Man’s Charl­ton Hes­ton, whom McCarthy once did stunt-work for, but owing more prob­a­bly to Wal­ter Miller, Jr.‘s A Can­ti­cle for Liebowitz, man­aged to steal the 2007 Pulitzer for fic­tion from — ” Okay, sorry. Just fig­ured out […]

I’m no expert, but this seems pretty cool to me: a read­ing I did a month or so ago, all cut up into lit­tle flash bits, with an inter­view too. Click the pic below to hit it, or the arrow-thing to lis­ten. [Audio clip: view full post to lis­ten] [ this is me lis­ten­ing to […]

Kurt Von­negut, Jr: no more. Gone. Maybe like Billy Pil­grim, though, he’s just roller­coast­ing back and forth through it all now. Laugh­ing. Hope so, anyway.

Which, I’m find­ing, aren’t at all the same as my five favorite books. Ridicu­lous, yes? Wish I had some fix for that, or at least an expla­na­tion, or sus­pi­cion. I mean, it’s kind of pre­sup­pos­ing some major dis­con­nect between inten­sity and … I don’t know: appre­ci­a­tion? Revis­itabil­ity? Not some Pirsig-ish ‘qual­ity,’ I don’t think. But […]

This has to be the old­est news around, but’s new to me any­way: watch­ing “The Women of Candy Snatch­ers” fea­turette on the Candy Snatch­ers DVD, and Tiffany Bowl­ing kind of asides that she was in that old series “The New Peo­ple,” which she says is Lost, now. So, checked IMDb, and yep: A group of […]