Man, it's been a while! Uh. Where to begin...

Well, first of all, my story "Trail of Sawdust" is now up at 5923 Quarterly. Yay! Go read it. There are robots.

Secondly, I made a book called Gouts of Angry Mist, which is a collection of two experimental short stories. If you want one, and you do, it's $5.

Thirdly, I went to Graceland and loved, loved, ( Read more... )

1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your state/country) when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Post in your own journal.
4. Bold the items that apply to you.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM GREENSBORO, NC...

If you automatically assume when people say chicken restaurant they're talking about Bojangles, not KFC. - Mrs. Winner's is also ( Read more... )

So! I'm teching the Exotic Hypnotic festival for Artscape, which means lots of long-ass days full of experimental musicians, their obnoxious hippie fans, and never-ending technical issues. I'll spare everyone the boring details of which vocal mic channels aren't working (hint: ALL OF THEM) and how low we're running on audio cables and get right to ( Read more... )

I'm in NC now, and things are better. I'm still withholding details out of respect for my family, but things have improved considerably. Thanks, everyone, for your concern and patience during what has been a difficult time. I have nice friends.  :)

I posted this on my writerly blog, too. Hint hint.

Well, Annalemma rejected the piece I sent them. C'est la vie. But their rejection was nicer and honestly more flattering than a lot of the acceptances I've gotten.

Thanks for submitting [title withheld] to us. I'm going to respectfully pass on this piece. You got a great voice here but the ( Read more... )

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/plus-size_models_in_ads_may_ju.html

Plus-size models could help, the researchers note, in ads for certain things, such as weight-loss supplements and gyms - by making women feel bad enough about ( Read more... )

Had a nice chat/meeting tonight with Adam, the guy who runs Publishing Genius (the small press I'm interning for this summer); we talked literature and laid out some projects that will take us into next month. I'll be laying out one of the books he's putting out this summer, and talking to bookstores so we can put some of these titles on shelves. ( Read more... )

(cross-posted from my writerly blog, Banners of Death)

Welp, classes are done for the semester. This past week was ridiculous - I had an Experimental Forms final due and lost a weekend to the irredeemable shitshow that was the Maryland Film Festival. The final project wouldn't have been so bad, but given my professor's enthusiastic response to ( Read more... )

I'm really glad i read barely any fantasy as a child, since apparently every notable fantasy writer is some kind of libertarian sex criminal.

Sorry, but that made me laugh.

Anyway, school's almost over and I never have to work for the Maryland Film Festival ever again. They're not worth the effort of coming up with interesting ways to insult them. ( Read more... )

My ears hurt.

For context, I ended up going to a show at Golden West tonight - some garage bands were playing and I haven't heard that kind of music live in ages (it's been all thrash and hardcore lately), so me and two other people from class spent an evening in downtown Hampden.

By the way, people who think Hampden has been completely gentrified by ( Read more... )