RAZORED ZEN

Well, it's a bit after 10:00 pm here at Fortress Gramlich, and so far we've had no trouble. A band of rain squalls came through aro...

Yesterday, I finished reading Bits of the Dead , the zombie anthology I’ve mentioned here. Although it has hits and misses like any antholo...

Although Gustav is at current a tropical storm only, the coast is taking this one seriously. Xavier has already cancelled classes as of thi...

I’ve started the commute to work again and that means listening to the radio. I have a CD player but I tend to listen to the radio because ...

Language sure is fun. Just in the last couple of days I’ve heard new words, new to me at least, which seemed obvious after I heard them. ...

As usual, I underestimated the mass of work that slams me during the first school days. I tried to have as many things done ahead of time a...

I know better, but I made a mistake the other day in a story submission. I wanted to send a story to an anthology featuring strong women ch...

Back from Arkansas. As I expected, there was no time to blog or check blogs. I spent the days visiting with mom and family. And doing a f...

I’m leaving tomorrow to go visit my mom in Arkansas. I’ll be gone until at least Friday and most likely won’t be posting or visiting blogs ...

Before I ever found Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard, I found books by other writers with words slashed across the cover that read: “...

I started fiddling with a post on battle songs but got off track with a poem that I thought I'd put up. The song that I think captures ...

X-Dell asked an interesting question in my comments: “With respect to the previous post, did you ever consider that what you read early on ...

My brother has been scanning some pictures for an older family member and he sent me a few of them. I thought I'd post those today. No...

Famous Monsters of Filmland . Creepy. Eerie. Vampirella. Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Spider . Savage Sword of Conan, The Conan comic...

I got an abrupt and well needed awakening two weeks ago. I’ve joined a writing critique group near where I live now, and the group has been...

I found out from Lisa that Hubert Selby Jr. died in 2004. (His supposedly official website didn’t indicate this.) This means that I can t...

Can someone please explain why “literary” writers get to freely eviscerate the normal rules of writing but don’t get called on it, while you...

I've put the cover of Wanting the Mouth of a Lover on my sidebar. Clicking it will take you to Spec House of Poetry in case you want t...

Here are the covers for the two editions of Wanting the Mouth of a Lover . The chapbook is now for sale at Spec House of Poetry . Just to m...

What a whirlwind weekend. Babel Con went well. I had at least 25 folks at each of my two presentations, and about the same for a horror fi...