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Every Good Thing That Could Ever Happen in a Movie, it Just Happened in Machete. And then Some.
I remember, I remember I remember The night Grindhouse opened, I somehow lucked into sitting there at the Alamo Drafthouse, where the cups were special that night, matched the movie somehow, and the trailers, man: Hobo With a Shotgun, Thanksgiving, and Machete. Danny Trejo not just in a bad-ass role, but inhabiting that character. Explosions
Shotgun Exorcism
In a movie, no matter the genre, you will always become that which you were just pretending to be. So, this charlatan exorcist in The Last Exorcism, exposing exorcisms as fraudulent for a documentary crew, what do you think? In a horror movie, will he finally have to become a real exorcist, or might he
Two More Novels
Every once in a while, something especially cool happens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flushboy (2013) and Not for Nothing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of breakdown: –Flushboy‘s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love stories. It’s this kid, pretty much indentured into working the drive-through window at
Living Twice at Once
Most directors can do one thing just really, really well. David Lynch, say, he can follow a telephone cord up and up such that you get all caught up in the languorous spiral, and that becomes not just the whole room, but the whole story. Wes Craven, he can rig a chase through a tight
The Fifth Element is Story
M. Night Shyamalan had his work cut out with The Last Airbender. Not only did he have to run with a different title than the original Nickelodeon series—thanks, James Cameron—but he also had to somehow condense sixty-one episodes (1342 minutes) into something feature length. Or, the trailers didn’t tell us otherwise, anyway, but let me
Three Movies, One (-ish) Book
Or, “What I did with my yesterday,” yeah. Book: PARKER: THE HUNTER. Pretty fun; very straightforward, and cool art. Though, the night before I was up until two or three in the morning, unable to look away from the second volume of SCALPED, “Casino Boogie.” I’ve always thought that SANDMAN or Y THE LAST MAN
All the Updating that’s fit to Update
New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story collection, now called The Ones That Got Away. Was lucky enough to be in the fifty stories Brian Evenson selected for Wigleaf. Clutch of new stories over at Shadowbox, here. New story “Sunsets Unlimited” at Hobart. Review of Splice at the San Antonio Current. I think I’ve got
On Exodus
Or, the logo Jen Michalski’s got up over there’s so cool, I have to paste it here. Click on it for the post on “Exodus.”
Another Good Day
Looks like that “The Ones Who Away” story of mine’s going in Paula Guran’s soon-here THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR. Too, I think the version going in that’s the one I re-rigged for THE ONES THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY, my October/Prime collection.
Shirley Jackson Awards
So, these judges, they were all huddled together over pizza and beer, and they got to daring each other this and that (I hear there’s pics), and it finally came down to seeing if they could slip a clown into the novelette category, strictly for fun, because who could win again Stephen King and Laird
StarFest 2010
Should you need to run me down: ( http://starland.com/ ) 8:00pm Friday night, that triple feature. The poster’s down below here, or bigger in my “etc” photo album. I’m introducing, in this order, DEAD AND BURIED, THE KEEP, and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (also: lots of cool trailers). am more than likely going to get
Denver next week
In case anybody needs me next/AWP week, these are the places I definitely plan on being, though of course I’ll be trolling the bookfair for swag as well, and haunting lobbies, and skulking around busstops, and generally making a nuisance of myself in various restaurants. And, no, I don’t know where any of these places
The Weird
Anybody catch that “Little Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s coming out again in November, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be happier about that.
Termination Dust
Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, anyway. But, only mentioning it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Monsters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Termination Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Monsters” in the titlte, which never hurts.
Staccato Fiction
New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.
It Came from Del Rio
setting: Austin, Texas characters: – a father – his daughter – various chupacabras – various border patrol agents – some people to kill righteously publisher: Trapdoor Book2. synopsis: the story of the reconciliation between a daughter and her long-gone father, as complicated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zombie place in The Bunnyhead Chronicles:
Dzanc and a Cool Cover
Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too:
Zombie Cowboys
looks like that “Lonegan’s Luck” (a zombie western) I had in NEW GENRE a few months ago’s going to be in The Best Horror of the Year volume 2, ed. by Ellen Datlow. Very cool, very excited.
The Year in Movies
For me, anyway. However, the caveat — movies I haven’t seen yet: THE HURT LOCKER: the title kept me away, yeah. very undescriptive. or, maybe makes perfect sense afterward, but none before. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER: dug the trailer, did the actors, heard great stuff about it, but, being not-horror, it kept slipping down the
Tonight’s Cage Match: Fiction
not based on a true story So I read more fiction than non-fiction. It’s a moral failing, I know: I prefer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fiction. Makes sense to read it, yeah? Where else am I going to learn technique, cue into little narrative shuffles this or that writer pulled off,
The Ruins: Poison Ivy (postdate:2008)
In Five Words or Less: Boring title, good movie. In More than Five Words, with / without spoilers: In 1998, Sam Raimi adapted Scott Smith’s debut sensation A Simple Plan (1993) for us, and, though a lot of the narrator’s nuances were lost in the compression, still, Smith had written a strong enough dramatic spine