Christopher Barzak

Category: Change

  • Summer Stock

    It is now August, and I’m at the tail end of what has been a very busy summer.  I managed to move forward a bit with the novel, wrote two short stories, and an essay, and also took two classes toward my MFA degree and will be taking a third one beginning at the end…

  • 26 to 50

    While I was in Pittsburgh, I received news from Japanese translator Yoshio Kobayashi, alerting me to a new website (in both English and Japanese), called 26 to 50. The site will host fiction, reviews, interviews, discussion, news, etc. about the field of fantastic literature.  Right now the site has short interviews with Lucius Shepard, Tim…

  • Stonewall at 40

    Rick Bowes writes a guest blog over at Matt Cheney’s blog The Mumpsimus, on Stonewall forty years later.  Read it.  It’s not only good, it’s a great perspective.

  • One resolution accomplished

    Back around New Year’s, I made one writerly resolution.  From that blog post: “One of my goals for the year is to write something joyful instead of melancholy, extroverted instead of introverted, playful instead of serious.  I suspect I will have to change some of the ways I perceive things to do so.  But that…

  • Goings-on

    Because I am a lazy blogger these days, I’m simply going to link over to my friend Deb’s blog post about the events going on downtown in Ytown this weekend.  There’s good stuff:  the Artists of the Rustbelt Festival, the first GLBT Pride Day in Youngstown’s history, Jonesfest, and a historic walking tour.  Check out…

  • Prop 8

    There is nothing wrong with you.

  • Congrats, Maine

    Congratulations, Maine, on being the next state to rise out of the mire of a twisted sensibility. Let’s hope more will follow soon. Until then, I leave you with this really awesome poem by Frank O’Hara:   Homosexuality So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping our mouths shut? as if we’d…

  • Return of the sun

    Very little to say except it is gorgeous outside.  Every day it seems things get a little brighter, a bit greener, and everything is beginning to smell like flowers.  It’s about time.  It wasn’t a terribly snowy winter here this year, but it was cold as usual.  I have a tendency to grow gloomy in…

  • On failing to keep up with Racefail

    As I’ve not been reading blogs regularly over the past year of my new full time employment plus second-graduate-degree-taking schedule (I sometimes have very little time left in the day for eating and sleeping, it seems), I have remained ignorant of a great blogosphere debate that had been going on for what seems like it…

  • A change

    Do you get tired of looking at the same colors and fonts and borders of a website/blog?  I do.  The blue of the former template for this site was totally starting to make me feel blue, so I decided on white with browns and greens, wishful thinking toward spring.  Also, for some reason, after I…