Month: August 2007
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Interview Preview
I’m being interviewed over at the Swivet on August 28th, when the book comes out, by LaGringa. But she’s posted a preview of the interview today. She’s going to be giving away copies of One for Sorrow, too, so I’ll make sure to remind you all to go over there and get one when the…
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Bookmarks!
My friend Steven Andrew is a graphic design genius. I heart so many of the things he does. Like his Subpopular.com that he started up, which is a sort of myspace for the local Youngstown arts and entertainment scene. And his own myspace page, which he redesigned because he’s an online design wiz kid like…
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Days go by
Ugh, this is sort of agonizing, waiting waiting waiting for my book to come out. For months, even after all the work with Bantam was done for putting it together, it was this distant thing in my mind. But now its presence just keeps looming nearer and nearer. Rick Bowes told me that every writer…
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Don’t give a damn
Apparently the Republican debate via YouTube is back on. At first the candidates complained about it and thought it was demeaning, according to Mitt Romney. Between their hesitation to participate in truly democratic forums like this one, and their outright disregard for the GLBT community’s Visible Vote forum, I think any sensible person with an…
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Oakland Open House
I’ll be there, as usual.
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You can stand under my umbrella
A return to a mood I have not felt in a while. Recently I have been sort of obsessed with the song “Umbrella” which is sung by the very popular Barbados-born Rihanna. And when I say popular, I mean popular. You go to this woman’s myspace page and look at how many “friends” she has.…
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Long and narrow like a coffin
Midori Snyder over at the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts has written a review of One for Sorrow: While reading One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak’s remarkable debut novel, I was reminded of a quote from Danish author, Tove Ditlivson: “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and we do not get out of it…
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Politicians are weird
I didn’t watch this debate, but I read this recap of it at the New York Times, and it only makes me wish I’d seen the debate myself because from the point of view of the blogger who’s covered it here, it sounds just so weird and sometimes funny.
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Extinction
It’s this sort of news that always makes me really sad. Is it just me? I don’t know. I don’t really hear people talk about the loss of a species ever. For some reason it’s always been something that hits me in the gut.
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Research
This may be a long shot, but if anyone out there knows of links online or books or documentaries, or anything really, that has to do with munitions factories in the United States during WWII, I could really use some help finding stuff. I’ve been waiting to use the archives at the Museum of Labor…