We got the coolest package from cakeearthhead in the mail the other day. It had tons of waacky stuff but my favorite was this piece of art inspired by the forthcoming Play Dead by Mike Arnzen. This piece is so cool. I also loved the home-made packaging created from the box for a “Rampaging Scorpian…

It's been a great experience to be part of the HAZARD YET FORWARD project, a charity anthology put together by alumni from Seton Hill in support of one of their members, Donna Munro. Although we only talked to Donna a few times over the weekend we spent at the SHU conference she made quite an…

Tonight is the next stop on Michael Gills' book tour for GO LOVE: NOV 3 • 7PMUNCG Faculty Center on College AvenueUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroGreensboro, NC

Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler Now Available Where to get your copy: -direct from the publisher -Amazon hard copies -Amazon Kindle –Barnes & Noble Who should be given a second chance at life?  Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface…

For those of you interested in the convoluted inner workings of the small press there’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Horror-Web message board about the “impending doom” of the industry. John has been making quite a few posts on the thread and it’s a lively discussion. Unfortunately I don’t have the time…

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't…