Saturday, May 31st, 2008
I may have sold another story! Details forthcoming. But in honor of the occasion I have switched my site’s theme back to the "Classic Monsters" theme. It’s appropriate.
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I’ve never been a big fan of Rachael Ray. I don’t dislike her, but I don’t go out of my way to follow her on any of her shows or read her books or anything like that. Like Al Roker, she’s just one of the thousands of celebrities in the world that don’t arouse any [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I submitted my newest short story, "Padma", to my writers’ group last night. It went over very well, which honestly surprised me. I was convinced that it sucked, especially the end; and yet the end got the most positive feedback overall. Some of the descriptions that were bandied about were "chilling", "scary", and "superb", though [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
One of the things I really miss about my college days was my near constant exposure to people of other cultures and nations. Within my relatively broad circle of friends I regularly got to hang with people from France, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ecuador, India, Mexico, and so on. And, of course, there [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
I do think that even though there’s some equivocation and disingenuousness going on in this video (voting to extend tax cuts is not the same as voting against the tax cuts in the first place) there’s enough material here to remind us that McCain’s so-called "straight talk" is really anything but. Thanks to filkmaster Tom [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
It’s nice when people who have been missing for 42 years are finally found. Especially when they’re found inside their apartment. It’s sad when they’re dead, though. It’s been well observed that one of the downsides of being a writer is that many of the outrageous and bizarre situations that come up in real life, [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
What’s the best way to tell an old friend and housemate of yours that you killed her in the opening scene of your new novel?
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spam subject line of the day: "Prevent your organism from diseases!" The Dada-esque nature of this subject line is nearly perfect. It almost makes sense on a number of different levels, but once you think you’ve figured it out, you realize that you haven’t gotten it at all. This truly is the Platonic ideal of [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
California is now the second state in the US to legalize gay marriage. Today I am damn proud to be a Californian. Gay sex does squick me out, to be honest. How in the world can anyone, male OR female, find men attractive, let alone find the idea of sex with them at all appealing? [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
"The Fix", a website that reviews short fiction, has a review of Issue #33 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Of "A Most Heinous Man", the reviewer says this: [The illustration by Lewis Morley] appropriately meshes with the humorously pulpy monster tale by Richard S. Crawford. A bit longer than flash, this fun bit of fiction [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Every now and then when I visit my parents I like to dig through my old report cards. It’s kind of interesting, looking back and seeing my academic progress through the years. I definitely had my ups and downs, good years and bad, which makes me astonishingly average. What struck me most, though, was the [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I still maintain that Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign is a zombie campaign at this point; most pundits seem to think that her win in West Virginia doesn’t mean much now that Obama has taken the lead in the popular vote, in states won, and in superdelegates. And today, Obama picked up an endorsement from John [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I’ve just added a couple of new stories to my website, so please share and enjoy. First is "writing down some", a story I wrote when I worked at a local newspaper, hating every minute of it, delivering newspapers to the racks and repairing racks whenever they broke down. It really wasn’t that bad a [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I am, of course, talking about the Clinton campaign. It’s dead but it won’t stop moving around, grasping desperately at votes and delegates like a zombie lunging after brains. There are plenty of things that bug me about the Clinton campaign, from the unscrupulous way they’re trying to reseat the delegates from states that were [...]
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