Join me? KILL HENRY SUGAR is playing tomorrow night (Fri, 12 Oct 07) at 10pm at Barbes, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn KILL HENRY SUGAR . Music of the huddled masses. With the snap of a drum and the moan of a dobro, Erik Della Penna and Dean Sharenow create folk songs from the roots of […]
In Chattanooga, when we go to visit my cousins on Signal Mountain, we always pass this spaceship. Seriously. Well, okay, it’s a house shaped like a space ship, but still. There’s an article online about it, which includes this handy video showing the inside of the Spaceship House. I’d always wondered about it. Clearly, I’m
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PRX now has “The Confessions of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” by the Willamette Radio Workshop. I perform in this as various cast members and at about the 2:30 mark, you get to hear my b-movie scream. (Now, you do have to register for PRX to listen to this, but it’s a pretty painless registration.)
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I’m delighted to announce that Cosmos has posted my story “For Solo Cello, op. 12” live and free on their website. This originally appeared in Issue 13 of COSMOS back in March 2007. His keys dropped, rattling on the parquet floor. Julius stared at them, unwilling to look at the bandaged stump where two weeks
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This is beautifully animated, but there’s one detail which makes me go a little buggy. Watch the baby’s eyes. They are so real, compared to the rest of the figure, that it edges into the uncanny valley. This is a problem that crops up in a lot of different forms of world creation, from set
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We just returned from a lovely dinner with Rob’s parents at Cafe Frida. They were on a whirlwind tour of the mainland and stopped by NYC for the weekend. Sadly, I missed them last night and only saw them this evening when I came home from working on the moth. I thought that they were
A Writer’s Vanity – Gratia Placenti available for pre-orders Date of Publication: December 1st, 2007 Hardcover only available via pre-order Special TPB pre-order price of $12.95 This is the much anticipated follow up to the Stoker nominated featured writer anthology Aegri Somnia. Gratia Placenti translated means “for the sake of pleasing.†13 of the most
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I dropped the moth off today and they loved it. As I was leaving they were having trouble with one of the other effects in the show. A key plot element revolves around a young man who has, um, trouble with his manhood becoming alert when he isn’t expecting it to do so. The member
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I got a phone call last night that went something like this. “You were recommended to us and I’m calling to see if you had time to build a giant moth this week for our show.” “Maybe. What’s the actual due date?” “Tomorrow.” I laughed, knowing what the last minute pressure of a show is
The folks over at Senses Five Press are planning a party at World Fantasy and want to decorate with subway maps. Check out the deal they are offering. If you send me a subway map, I’ll send you a free issue of Sybil’s Garage. If you live outside of the US, to compensate for higher
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We are packing the puppets now. It is 3 am. They are beautiful.
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It’s 1:15 am. I just got home. The crocodile and leopard are not finished. Tomorrow I’m supposed to temp and after I finish that I’m heading back to the Puppet Kitchen to finish up so that the puppets can get on a plane at 6am on Tuesday. Oh yeah, and I have to send the
I just typed “end” on “The Bride Replete” and it’s only 13742 words long. That’s a mere 5742 words longer than I was aiming for. I have some holes to patch which currently contain notes in handy [brackets] and then massive trimming. It’s unlikely that I will get it anywhere close to 8000 words, but
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Today Rob and I hosted about fifteen writers for a wine-tasting. We tasted a variety of wines from top-shelf to rock-bottom. The idea was to learn how a wine snob would approach wine as opposed to a hard-nosed detective. I asked Rob to find some flawed wines as a contrast to the good ones. As
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The September 2007 Doctor Who magazine reviews Short Trips: Destination Prague which includes my story, “Suspension and Disbelief.” The highlights: For this latest Short Trips anthology the editor, Steven Savlie, has roped in an experienced group of writers to create a more self-consciously literary collection than usual, one that suggests voguish, city-themed short story compilations