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 [...]
Here’s an excerpt from my new post at The Night Bazaar, “Heroes and Heroines:” I’m never quite sure what makes a hero, which I think is probably the key to knowing what makes a hero. I look at it this way: if being a hero was easy, everyone would do it. But it’s not just [...]
For those of you who are interested, here’s info at the BBC website about my short story “Hell on Wheels” airing next Saturday Nov. 12, at 11:30pm UK time. It will reportedly be streamed on the site.
I’ll cut Regina Weinreich a huge amount of slack for producing and directing a documentary on one of my favorite writers of all times: Paul Bowles. (This is a documentary that I have not seen, incidentally…at least not that I can recall — Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider.) But I have no idea what she [...]
When I was a kid, I never really cared what I was for Halloween, as long as it got to kill people. More often than not, I dressed up as the characters I thought were having a way more exciting life than me: guys in the Army. Yeah, I know (now) that guys in the [...]
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Posted 28 October 2011
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