Just a cou­ple of remakes that might have gone below the radar: Wiz­ard of Oz and Hell­raiser. And Hell­raiser’s espe­cially inter­est­ing, as it likely tan­gles up everybody’s knee-jerk dis­like of remakes: Barker’s (re)writing it him­self. Don’t know what to think, myself. I mean, man, the orig­i­nal, I loved it. That and Lord of Illu­sions were […]

Joon Hwan Jang. Which is to say I just watched Save the Green Planet. I mean, yeah, I’m a fool for Korean movies these last cou­ple of years — not my fault, they’re just explod­ing, or I’m rid­ing the wake of some explo­sion when every­body cool was watch­ing Korean stuff, I don’t know — but, […]

Really, just two pas­sages I’ve stum­bled onto these last cou­ple of days. The first is from Eric Miles Williamson, a guy I really respect because he can seri­ously write. On the edi­to­r­ial board of some mystery-press a cou­ple of years ago, I read a book of his in man­u­script which I still think of just […]

Can’t find the mes­sage now, but I remem­ber some­body ask­ing in my inbox in some web­mail on some pirate con­nec­tion over the last three weeks or so where that old “T is for Title” post was. Well, just dug through the data­base for a ridicu­lous time, but found it, revived it, here. Also, in looking […]

The new Clacka­mas Lit­er­ary Review’s out and about. My “The Para­ble of the Gun” story’s in it. Another Demon The­ory review way up at Toronto’s own Globe & Mail. Just spent a week and change in a ham­mock watch­ing the waves around Galve­ston, but, if I’m double-spacing cor­rectly in my head (where you sub­tract title pages and […]