Month: October 2013

Some Links

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One Good Turn: Eugie Foster is fighting lymphoma, and could use a hand, if you’re so inclined… she has some ebooks for sale, which will help her pay for her treatment. I picked up a couple, and figured I’d pass the word on while I’m at it. Literary: Ever been curious to check out Baudelaire? Don’t know which translator(s) most suit your tastes? FleursduMal.org is the site for you. You can read different translations of each of the poems from each edition, and make up your own mind! An interview with my friend Christine Lee Zilka and her coeditor at Kartika, …

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Semi-Functional For a Bit

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UPDATE: I think I may have found the solution to my problem. We’ll see in a day or two, I guess… ORIGINAL POST: Not many visitors bother with my Tag Archive or Archives, but they might notice that other functionalities are reduced at the moment. I’m having problems with one or another plugin eating memory like there’s no tomorrow, and while I try to figure it out, I’ll have to leave a bunch of plugins switched off. So that explains why this site is only semi-functional for the moment. Apologies if this inconveniences anyone. For those searching for a series, …

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My Wife, and Her Ass-Kicking Ways…

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Yeah, she got another award: this time, it’s the Abby Normal Award for Innovation, awarded by the Zompire Undead Film Festival in Portland. (See the post on Brutal Rice Productions’ site.) (I’m not quite sure why my name is on there, since I didn’t co-direct. Maybe they felt that the “innovation” was related to the script, or something, I’m not sure… but in this case, I really wasn’t very involved in the making of the movie… just the story and one draft of the script, soundtrack, and a little scattered foley, none of which are things that give one “collaborator” …

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One Coin, Two Sides: An Addendum

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By the way, in case it sounds like I was only talking about other people in yesterday’s post, I wasn’t. Even in the specific subject of writing for kids, I’m as guilty as anyone, though of course I end up crusading against the madness of Kitty Farmer, and in league with the likes of Ms. Pomeroy: Here’s some proof: A couple of years ago I collaborated with a colleague of mine (Haeyoung Kim) on a series of educational books titled Reading Street. (I posted about the books when they first came out, here.) One of the artists who contributed to the …

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