I was a Strokes fan back in the day. I discovered them in a music store in a mall in 2001, when I bought their first album Is This It on CD. I loved it instantaneously as a sugar-rush amalgam of every under-celebrated New Wave band: Television, the Modern Lovers, a dollop of Doug Yule-era… Read More In Praise of Comedown Machine
It’s the first edition, but whatever. Because I am old, because I came up in a time when CD’s were the newest, hippest form of musical consumption, I have hundreds of them. True, the format has become the cultural equivalent of the 8-track, having neither the aesthetic cachet of vinyl nor the supreme convenience of… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Interesting Failures Edition
I find again on Monster Hunter Nation content worth discussing: I was on another author’s page in a post where they were announcing the release of a new book, and some dude rolled in to whine about how he shouldn’t be writing this new book, but should instead be writing more books in the other… Read More You Don’t Own The Author – The Wages of Fandom
I often feel as though keywords were inscrutable gobbleydegook, this makes them seem saner, than anything else I’ve read. The big idea is that a keyword can be, and probably should be, a cluster of words. Thanks to Cedar Sanderson from Mad Genius Club for breaking this down. I used it to pre-create a blurb… Read More Link: A useful Primer on Amazon publishing: Blurbs and Keywords
I put Anthropica on my Amazon List a bit ago, due to my previous interest in the Dead Rabbits/Animal Riot podcast and publishing house. I received it for Christmas this past year. David Hollander is a skilled writer, and he has a literary style which paradoxically produces long, Faulknerian sentences, yet the chapters seem short.… Read More I am Not Enjoying Anthropica
lol. lmao, even. Apparently the Hugos were hosted in China in 2023 and apparently the Chinese government let it be known that certain authors had offended them, and apparently the Hugo committee complied by declaring certain books and authors ineligible to be voted on. There were other shenanigans and frauds and blah blah blah, and… Read More China Ate the Hugos
This is my fourth overall poetry collection, and third published to Amazon (Wonderland is Hell is available free to read here on Content Blues). It’s material from the last two years. It’s longer than Stir, and unlike The Short Cool Summer, it’s available in paperback as well. As a chronological collection, it’s going to vary… Read More One Line or Another – Now Available
Recently I published a collection of stories from Unnamed Journal, which are set in a fantasy universe I’ve been knocking around for a little while, known as Cevalon (actually the name of just one of the continents, work in progress, you get it). Equally recently, I wrote a post about Brandon Sanderson’s Laws of Magic… Read More Tygg & Drea vs. Sanderson’s Laws
This has been up since the middle of the month, but I delayed this post because we had artwork in it for the first time, and I had to be sure that Amazon could handle it. Or, if you’re the sort of person who wants an .epub AND a .pdf, you go to our Gumroad… Read More Unnamed Journal 37 – Wanna Be Anarchy!
I’m a fan of both Blood Meridian and the Coen Brothers film of No Country for Old Men, both by Cormac McCarthy, without fully understanding them. They are dense pieces of uncomfortable art that transgress what is expected, that show the world as it is, happy endings be damned. Over the long weekend, I happened… Read More Explaining Cormac McCarthy
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