Aug 20
It’s supposed to be one of the big moments. You write a book, sell it, edit it then, after years of doing all that, finally get to hold the thing. You’ve joined humanity’s library. Most young writers imagine this as their ‘I arrived’ moment and I suppose I was, once upon a time, much the …
Aug 04
In an alternate universe version of Spiderman, Marvel Comics killed Peter Parker and made him into a half black, half latino character. Racists immediately lost their mind. I’d quote some of the things being said but don’t even want to dirty my fingers typing it. And I’ll type just about anything. People who hate this new character …
May 21
It’s almost The Rapture. You’ve formed a plan for your atheist pets, deleted your porn stash and got right with Jesus.Either that or you’re shooting heroin with a prostitute while being double penetrated by a goat and Anton LeVey. But whatever you’re doing, there’s only one thing left to figure out. Just what do you wear to The Rapture? …
Mar 20
My novel, Technicolor Ultra Mall, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’ll be released in October 2011. To give you the elevator pitch . . . It’s a satirical and ultra-violent dystopia about consumerism. In a world where people live in giant malls, a young man tries to escape the crushing poverty of the …
Jan 04
This link to some Doctor Who fan art arrived in my email so if you’ve seen it on some other, bigger blog, then tough shit. Why don’t you just go back there if they’re so great? It’s an extensive collection of printable templates to make paper dolls of a whole whack of Doctor Who ephemera. …
Nov 01
You slept in that day. When you finally awoke you noticed that your RCA clock radio had gone off but there was nothing on the air except static. You switched it off, rolled out of bed and put on your housecoat. You were halfway through your first cup of coffee when you got the news from the internet. Late last night, the dead rose from the earth and were now roaming the earth as zombies. That certainly explains why your favorite blogs were not updated and why everyone was just tweeting “BRAAIIIINS!”
Aug 28
Back in 2007, I sold a very short story to Space Squid. They got my name wrong, calling me Ryan C. Thomas. (A previous contributor.) I pointed out the error out and, by way of apology, they interviewed the pair of us in their next issue. All that aside, I’ve always felt friendly to Space …
Jun 29
Friday was George Orwell’s birthday. We have an odd way of celebrating such things in Toronto. We like to mark occasions like this with large art installations featuring performances by the local police. There was a moment,when I thought of the old fellow. Not in a This is so 1984 sense (that got old about …
