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A thing I wrote on Facebook that people seemed to like, so I'm putting it here to give it extended shelf life ( Read more... )

I've listed some collectible old magazines on eBay: the issue of Sassy I was in (complete with my personal address label) and a lot of eight 1990s horror magazines, mostly Cemetery Dance. As always, these are signed and can be personalized. More coming soon, including nudies (that old issue of RageCrossposted at Dreamwidth. Comment here or there, ( Read more... )

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I just listed two rare horror anthologies on eBay: the trade hardcover of Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2, edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector, which includes the first publication of my story "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves"; and the signed/numbered/slipcased edition of the first Borderlands anthology, edited by Thomas F. Monteleone, which includes ( Read more... )

When I was a little kid, there were no gay characters in anything I read or saw, although I latched onto the proto-bromances of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a very early age. At eight or so, I read about a lesbian encounter in a biography of (I think) Hedy Lamarr, which I found (oddly) in my super-conservative Baptist paternal grandmother's ( Read more... )

I was smoking pot on the pot when I saw pot smoking pot on a pothead!

I can't decide whether or not this is better than Beavis and Butt-head's idea for a tattoo of a butt on your butt. I've been trying to talk Chris into getting that one for yearsNot much good to report. A friend from OLGC, Claude Baehr, passed away from cancer this morning. He ( Read more... )

In some happier parallel world, rozk and I are good pals. We really should be good pals in this world -- we share many dear friends, interests, and various oddities -- but somehow our paths have only ever crossed intermittently. We've waved at each other from our passing ships and occasionally managed to share a bit of conversation. Maybe someday we'll ( Read more... )

I'm going to spend the evening reading and go to bed early (fun things to do tomorrow if I only have the energy for them), but I wanted to make a note of the three books I picked up at Borders tonight:

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau. Couldn't really afford this massive slipcased compendium, but I somehow lost my old Doonesbury ( Read more... )

I'm off to the parades in a little while (please, God, don't let it rain on poor Oshun again), but in the meantime, if your life has been bereft of goofy horror-writer lulz lately, there are some fine ones to be found here.