Someone strode into the bank in a Darth Vader costume yesterday. A customer found this so hilarious, he went to hug adorable Darth. This customer at a Chase branch in Long Island was in for an unpleasant surprise. Well, yeah, unpleasant surprises at JP Morgan Chase banks are pretty much de rigeur at this point, […]
So, my Backstage Passes book has been accepted for Nook and iPad distribution and of course is formatted for Kindle. All the book trades seem to indicate that the Kindle is in the lead having the most readable screen with the Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device and the newly discounted and nearly-as-good smaller latest generation […]
Sorry I haven’t updated in a few days. I was scheduled to announce the release of my fabulous anthology Backstage Passes on Monday. But I was wracked with anxiety and inappropriate affect, so, instead of feeling celebratory about the awesomeness, I just mostly felt nervous and queasy. Excited contributors have all been emailing me for […]
I am really thrilled to be able to announce that the first set of Razor Candi has just gone live in the Blue Blood VIP. Yay! Although Blue Blood receives hundreds of submissions a week and has for many years, I don’t get this excited very often. Heck, I guess we don’t even get to […]
It seems like I’ve been going to a lot of barbecues lately. Probably partly because of the proximity of the 4th of July and partly because people are partying at home more in a down economy. And partly because I love to eat delicious things and have friends who also enjoy delicious things. Now, truth […]
Future generations are going to study the decades after the popularization of internet interaction turned most of the population into emo feuding crybabies and shake their heads in disbelief. Apparently, back in May, Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance called Peter Murphy of Bauhaus “a sandwich short of a picnic”. Brendan Perry of course posted […]
The band Everclear is kicking off a tour in promotion of their forthcoming In a Different Light album this fall. The first single from the album “Here Comes the Darkness” is already available. My favorite Everclear song is the non-obscure “I Will Buy You A New Life” one, with Art Alexakis’s soulful heartstring-tugging voice painting […]
Both the witch doll and the devil goat plush, pictured here with the awesome Eric Griffin of the Murderdolls, were created by Ugly Shyla of the dark Ugly Art. Get it — the band Murderdolls and macabre horror dolls which are actually dolls … This was an outtake from a Meltdown magazine cover shoot and […]