We all have terrible things we’d like to forget about our youth–drug experiments gone awry, syphilitic prom dates, dissociative fugue murders, whatever. I have way more of those horrible secrets than I should (as friends with me in their yearbooks can attest), but the one I’ve thought about recently is that I was a teenage [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Religious Significance
And now, thanks to my friend Daniel, some proof that my crackpot theories aren’t always wrong. Archaeology classes were some of my favorites at UF, and I was always amused that anything of unknown purpose was assumed to have “religious significance.” When figurines turn up in ancient sites, they’re often identified as goddess icons or [...]
“In Search Of” Podcast
I’m proud that Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine has chosen “In Search Of,” one of my favorite stories I’ve written, as their first podcast. Actor and playwright Daniel John Kelley reads the story with a wryly bureaucratic and no-nonsense tone, and I think you’ll like it.
WillCare
Maybe I’m all drunk with socialistic fervor after listening to President Obama’s speech to students yesterday, but I’ve come upon a simple solution that at least solves my own health care coverage issue (and maybe yours, too). Okay, so health insurance is largely a statistical hedge: everybody pays in, hoping that only some will need [...]
And Now, a Very Important Opinion You Should Do Something About Immediately
Sometimes people ask me what really, really scares me. They figure that, being someone who has written horror, I’ll say something like clowns or zombies or cults. No, what scares me is the collapse of civilization, and what scares me more is that I see signs of it every day. The latest sign occurred last [...]
Retreat! Retreat!
Once or twice a year, we have friends come down to Jacksonville–the literary capital of Florida–for a writing retreat. Usually, we hang out at home or in the UNF library, hammering out words and offering encouragement and otherwise hiding from the mean demons. This year, we had Linda Daly, Steve Berman, and Sandra McDonald joining [...]