Brain Candy

Here’s a new pic of John from the Backlist Books event (thanks to Bill for taking it). Also, if you want to know the "real" story of what happened at the event read Andersen Prunty’s blog: http://www.andersenprunty.com/2010/03/dinosaur-with-man-arms.html

For anyone counting yesterday marked the 15th year John and I have spent together. It really doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. The whole Bizarro thing motivated me to try to get more reading done. So I burned through Jeremy Robert Johnson’s Angel Dust Apocalypse and really enjoyed it. I haven’t done any reading…

Mike Arnzen is running a great contest to support the release of Audiovile. PRIZES: + A signed deck of the very rare, very bizarro, custom-designed PLAY DEAD playing cards! Plus a five track CDR sampler from Audiovile + $15 Shocklines.com Gift Certificate + one random surprise gift from the Arnzen archives! + The actual hand-corrected…

decomp magazine reviews CODENAME PRAGUE: "The novel blasts you like the glass that was sandblasted in my old house. It grates against you, sloughing off all your lazy thoughts and unrealised dreams. It wills you to live. It fills you full of something like the joy people vaguely remember to have experienced at least once as…

We’re back, did you miss us? AWP was great, lots of opportunities and lots of new people to meet. There are pictures up from the event here: https://rawdogscreaming.com/awp.html but I’m posting one here that isn’t on that page. Mostly I spent my time carting Ripley around the hotel while John manned the table. In order…

There’s a couple cool events coming up this week that I wanted to mention. First, if you’re in the Chicago area Eckhard Gerdes will be signing books at the Triton College bookstore: DECEMBER 10 • 1-3 PM Triton College Bookstore Eckhard Gerdes Signing 2000 Fifth Avenue River Grove, IL 60171 (708) 452-1180 And if you’re…