Monthly Archives: April 2008
Pundit Primer Thus Far
From Hunter over at DailyKos: Things I have learned during this campaign season: In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his … Continue reading
Akira Lives
I’m sick with a spring cold, cranky and pissed off about “politics” in the US, also known as the charade that ends with nothing changing ever and rich people getting richer while the rest of us are forced to consume … Continue reading
Filed under anime, anime break, apocalypse, film, graphic novels, Koreanish, media, product
I Heart Queens
I’ve gone back to my legal pads. Writing on it for drafts. My battery power is failing on this fancy MacBook Pro I have from the college, so when I went out to USF, for the Emerging Writers Festival, I … Continue reading
Dear America: You’re Broke, Hungry, and Dying Young, Also Maybe On Fire But Not A Gasoline Fire Because You Can’t Afford That
Life expectancy in the US for women has dropped sharply, at its lowest since the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 As if sensing this, in the same time period, suicide rates jumped among children and young adults. Also, an average … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse, current events, dialogues
Mayhill Fowler, To No One’s Surprise, Is A Blogger
The Times’ Katherine Q. Seelye takes a look at the Huffington Post blogger, Mayhill Fowler, who first reported on Obama’s “bitter” comments. In the Times, her story as she believes it and professes it, is that she was doing her … Continue reading
Media Plays “Who Do You Want To Have A Beer With” Game Despite Devastating Consequences Of Last Game
It’s time again to play the regular guy game in American Political Journalism. The old “which one of these candidates would you like to have a beer with?” game. Lest we forget, who was the winner of the last Regular … Continue reading
Filed under current events, media, politics
Back In The Town Where I Met Stephen Beachy And Had Blue Hair
When I was an MFA student, Stephen Beachy’s beautiful debut novel, The Whistling Song, was one of my talismanic objects of worship kept close to my bedtable (Anna Karenina is there right now). Stephen is one of my heroes, and … Continue reading
Alexander Chee at the USF Emerging Writers’ Festival
This Wednesday, I travel to San Francisco for the University of San Francisco’s Emerging Writers Festival. I’ll be reading from what will be my third novel, Saint Spencer of the Lost. The information is below. If you live in the … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, MFA programs, writers, writing
From The Files: Fictioneer
It’s late, and I feel the need to update, but I also need to go to bed, so I’m reprinting the text of a blog post I wrote in June of 2005, in a blog I kept for a few … Continue reading
