Today I learned about this blog called Fuck Yeah Dioramas! Actually it's called FuckYeah Dioramas! but the whole concept of "Fuck Yeah" is repugnant enough that I cling to the space between the words in order to preserve some sense of decency. (And yeah, I tried to watch Team America: World Police and thought it was a lame-ass boring piece of shit. Fuck yeah.)

Anyways, there's tons of cool stuff at that blog such as the work of Su Blackwell who did that piece pictured above.

My article "The Sidewalk: Notes from an Amateur Bookseller" is available now at the IROSF. It's about my experiences last year selling books at my neighborhood's local flea market. You have to register with IROSF to read it, but it's free.

A sample:

Of course, I hadn't read every book on the table, especially most of the horror titles. Those were the ones my friends had given me in order to thin out their own collections. Whenever a prospective customer held up a horror novel and asked me what it was about, I'd always say "It's about a man"—(or a woman, depending on the customer's gender)—"who returns to his/her hometown, and there are ghosts in it and a haunted carnival."

Enjoy!

- I have a new Tor.com post about architects finding inspiration in science fiction. It reads like a Best of BLDGBLOG anthology. If anything you should check out the links to Victory City(TM). That's a whole new level of crazy. The next one I promise will be about comics or D & D or something serious like that.

- My short and depressing auto-bio story "Sympathy Bouquet" is available for download at Ruthless Peoples Magazine. It's all about death, depression, and flowers. Enjoy!

- Finally, my fellow Homeless Lunartic Michael J. Deluca has a story in the latest issue of Abyss & Apex called "Starlings". At one point, this story had mutant raccoons in it. Mike claims I suggested he take them out. Yeah, I don't know what I was smoking either.

- New Tor.com post up about vespertilio-homo, the lunar man-bat, and Matthew Goodman's The Sun and The Moon: the Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. .

- My parents got my email, but they are still trying to figure out how to reply. Email is a whole new world to them. No use rushing them on this one.

- The Homelessmoon Chapbook is now available for free and easy download. 5 stories, 80 pages. My story, "Signature Days", is all new weird and depressing with copious amounts of OCD thrown in for giggles. It's also quite short.

- My wife makes aesthetic decisions when she chops onions.

- I received my contributor's copy of CinemaSpec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy. The Edgar A. Poe stamp was a nice touch.

- Ack Ack Ack Ack

A couple of months ago I had this whole rodent thing going on. Well, I ended up writing this crazed and ponderous analysis of The Great Mouse Detective and The Secret of NIMH and sending it off to Fantasy Magazine.

Enjoy!