Mis­judged when Monk was com­ing on last night some­how, so had an hour to kill, and, yep, acci­den­tally started writ­ing a new novel. Bad thing too is that my new MSWord has this run­ning word­count on the bot­tom. First time I’ve had that in a few years, now. Any­way, cur­rent count, 4,097. And I’m really […]

Looks like I’m up in Mass­a­chu­setts — that how you spell it? so much eas­ier just to say “MA” — this Feb­ru­ary 7th, for a read­ing. More as, I don’t know, it stops being more than half a year away, I sup­pose. A friend lent me that Paris Review with the King inter­view that I […]

A few years late weigh­ing in here, but some­times it takes a while for things to click. Any­way, yeah, every­body hates Star Wars 1–3. Maybe not because of what or how they are, but as com­pared to 4–6. And of course a lot of that’s just how nostalgia’s about the worst beer gog­gles out there. […]

Never been just all over Bukowski’s stuff — no real excuse, aside from lack of taste, I sup­pose — but this is about as good a poem-reading as I’ve heard/seen. Too, like everybody’s been say­ing, yep, 3.75 mil­lion for a vam­pire tril­ogy. Or, like everybody’s been bemoan­ing? That too. Hope­fully not because of ‘vam­pires,’ though, […]

Man, except for re-hitting ReAn­i­ma­tor the other day — and maybe even includ­ing it — Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Ver­non is far and away the best hor­ror I’ve seen all year. Best I’ve seen since Feast, really.* And Feast is that holy kind of good for me. The only time I plan […]