“I will always play spikeyball,” Nolan said to Liam. “Oh look, look, it’s loading.” The Tibbles (at least Nolan and Liam) have figured out how to use Ziggy to get to the App Store, find…
Date Archives 2009
Pimping Peabo
I have been totally remiss in announcing the publication of Peabo’s first short story, in The Bellvue Review. Her story is called “To the River.” The best part is that you can download a PDF…
Asterios Polyp is probably smarter than I am
If you read about graphic novels at all, it’s hard to escape the accolades being heaped upon David Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp. If you believe the hype this book is like the second-coming of Jesus here…
I wasn’t all that wild about the rumpus
I’ve been trying to cope all weekend with my disappointment with “Where the Wild Things Are.” Mostly this has involved reading every single review of the movie I can find and hoping it will help…
On book collecting & what is probably a mental illness
There is a point in Frank Portman’s Andromeda Klein where Andromeda talks about surrounding herself with the books she loves and the energy they produce. As someone who is surrounded by books, I was struck…
A few things about the past few days
I workshopped my ghost story again last night. The class was pretty evenly split on the whole second person vs. anything but second person and ghost vs. no ghost issue. I’m not sure what to…