A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only “good,” in and of itself, rather than “great,” because while parts of it are amazing, and all of it tells an amazing story, too much of it tells an [...]
The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking about how it feels to have the name on one’s ID not match one’s identity…With its perky, music, straightforward speech and from-the-heart feel, it celebrates trans rights beautifully…and it’s on television. Read the rest of this post (and [...]
If I started thanking all the people I owe thanks to, I could be here the rest of the day and y’all would stop reading around about page sixty-zillion, if not before. So I want to instead write briefly about how much I appreciate the readers in my life. In that, I don’t just mean [...]
A new study from the University of Michigan is sure to get trotted out for years to come as proof that “real men have safe sex.” But to my eyes, what the study actually says is pretty unclear — and, in fact, it may not really say anything. The study was about testosterone levels and [...]
In case you’re wondering why it’s dangerous to put loaded science in the hands of journalistic toddlers, the article Why Macho Men Are More Likely to Have Safe Sex at The Daily Mail is a perfect example. I know, I know, all my UK friends keep telling me: “Don’t read bloody The Daily Mail.” Sometimes [...]
My short story “Hell on Wheels” can now be heard as a radio program, read by Peter Maniker, at the BBC Four Extra Radio Pulp Fiction website. Update 11/19/2011: Doh! Apparently it was only available for 7 days. Too late now, suckers…sorry! Hope you checked it out while it was live.
Today at The Night Bazaar, I’m considering the way in which my obsession with writing about war reflects my own internal neuroses, and how that is reflected in the tragedies of war in the real world — especially the “collateral damage” visited on civilians, child soldiers and other draftees, civilian infrastructure, politics… If war is [...]
Do you swoon when your lover brings you bacon chocolate? Do you swear by the bacon flow chart? Do you sport bacon-themed tattoos in suggestive locations? Assuming you agree that bacon is sexy, you’ll wonder why it took so long for the world of sex products took so long to get the memo. Well, [...]
Because I tend to read so randomly, I just listened to the audiobook of the 2008 release of Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World. Sadly, he’s now released an updated edition. So this is only the first dose of complaining about this book. Dedicated readers can look forward to another one. That’s because while I found [...]
I did a guest post over at Suvudu.com called “The House of Corporate Horrors,” about the writing of my novel The Panama Laugh and what it all means! And also how my zombie novel is one of the extraordinarily few zombie novels (some would say “the only”) directly connected to Occupy Wall Street and Occupy [...]
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