Month: June 2008
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Youngstown: Descent into Darkness
My friend Deb over at Youngstown Moxie found this great photography project on rustbelt cities created by freelance photojournalist Sean Posey of San Francisco. His family left Youngstown in the 80s and now he’s putting together a fine art/documentary project that will look at Youngstown and other areas of Michigan and Pennsylvania as it considers…
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When being that guy isn’t a bad thing
Karl Rove on Obama: “Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.” I identify with this comment,…
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My Algis Budrys Story
I recently learned of the death of Algis Budrys, and was immediately struck by the unfortunate news. For readers who don’t recognize his name, he was a science fiction writer and editor. I never met him myself, but I do have one Algis Budrys story despite that. When I was eighteen years old and an…
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Progress
As I said in comments about my writing woes, I’m the sort of writer who gets to the point with a book where it’s beating the hell out of me, but instead of abandoning it, I usually stick around and wrestle with it, like Jacob and the angel, until it says uncle and gives me…
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Good things
1. It is beautiful outside today. I am going to spend most of the rest of the day out in it after writing this. 2. My kittens are adorable. Seriously, no one has better ones. They’re sitting in the window watching birds together at the moment. Last night, after a serious catnip binge, they chased…
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Writing Woes
Lately I have been depressed. Like, majorly depressed. Like, stay in bed all day and when you wake up at various intervals and think about the thing that’s depressing you, you go back to sleep–that sort of depressed. It’s only been for about a week or so, but it’s felt like a wrecking ball has…
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Funding Strange Horizons
Here’s another good, literary cause: Strange Horizons is having their annual fund drive. Check out these cool prizes you can win by donating. New prizes are being added weekly, so be sure to check back if in case I don’t convince you right away to run over and donate. One of the things I love…
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The Sun Inside
I’ve mentioned it once here before heading off to Wiscon, but I’m mentioning it again. Rabid Transit Press, a small collective that is made up of myself, Alan DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl, have begun a new publishing endeavor that we’re calling our Electrum Novellas line. The novella is a narrative form that doesn’t get much…
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I’ll be judging. Just call me Tyra.
On Saturday, June 14, the latest incarnation of the Oakland Center for the Arts popular Fundraising is a Drag event will feature Downtown Youngstown’s first drag pageant! The show begins at 8 p.m.. A wine and cheese reception will begin at 7 p.m.. Attendees may bid on items in the fabulous Chinese Auction during this…