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Scary, scary monsters, now available!
Now available through Booklocker.com: Voracious by yours truly (distribution will be picked up within mere days by Amazon, Barnes&Noble and all your favorite book-hawkers; ebook version dropping within a week). “Patrick Worden delivers a unique story, horrifying monsters, characters with … Continue reading
RIP Adam “MCA” Yauch (Aug 5, 1964 – May 4 2012)
We’ve lost one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys; MCA is dead, reportedly of cancer, at the tragically young age of 47. He leaves behind a wife, a daughter and a musical legacy that bridges styles and cultures. … Continue reading
Sensationalist and Fantastical Fiction!
Veering uncomfortably close to the realm of self-promotion, I present to you the Spring, 2012 edition of The Red Penny Papers. RPP is the place to go for amazing speculative fiction, presented for your convenience in HTML and e-book formats. … Continue reading
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Tagged K.V. Taylor, S.A. van Muijden, The Black Hole, The Red Penny Papers
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Digital (r)Evolution – a personal perspective
One thing about the craft of writing that has undeniably changed down through its history, is its actual methodology. It’s become way, way easier. And it would be way way easy to belabor that point with a thousand and one … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Hawk Smith, publishing, Refrigerator Magnets, Remember The Time, writing
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The Cultural Revolution continued
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution roiled mainland China from 1966 to 1976. Inspired, perhaps even triggered, by Chairman Mao, it was a violent reaction to perceived capitalist, counter-revolutionary forces infiltrating governmental and cultural institutions. Its costs were incalculable. Millions of … Continue reading
RIP Levon Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012)
Clearly not a good week for rock-n-roll. Today we’re bidding farewell to Levon Helm. His band was The Band. Choosing a name like that means you put the music first, and just maybe you expect to claim a place in … Continue reading
RIP Dick Clark (Nov. 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
He’s been around so long, and has been so steeped in our media and pop culture (see: rock-and-roll, game shows, restaurants, etc.) that it’s difficult to say what, exactly, Dick Clark’s passing means. So for now let’s leave it at … Continue reading
Long Lost Leo?
Short of a time machine, there’s just no way to authenticate some works of art. The above painting, Salvator Mundi or Savior of the World, is widely believed to have been painted by Leonardo DaVinci in the late 1490s or … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, lady with an ermine, leonardo da vinci, salvator mundi
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Books as business, or books as art?
Books are dying, if not already dead. Or they’re bigger than ever. Or maybe they’re lining Schrödinger’s litter box, because both facts seem to be simultaneously true. Technology, including print-on-demand and electronic readers, has expanded publishing unlike anything since Guttenberg … Continue reading
The best of the best of the best
This blog has purported, for fifteen long months now, to cherish, honor and when necessary deconstruct, all the culture. But let’s not kid ourselves. What this blog has really been, is a fanboy’s loveletter to his favorite actors, artists and … Continue reading
RIP Earl Scruggs (Jan 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012)
Maybe you don’t like bluegrass. Maybe the banjo does nothing for you. Fair enough. Even if that’s true, you must recognize when you see a maestro at work. When it came to the banjo, Earl Scruggs was that maestro. You … Continue reading
Mad for the Ad Men
Fellow Mad Men fanatics: it’s been a long 17 months, hasn’t it? AMC is quenching our too-long thirst (with a few noontime martinis, no doubt) and returning us to that strange insular world of mid-1960s Madison Avenue. It’s insular, we’ve … Continue reading
Art, war, and the lost treasures of Europe
It’s staggering to realize that a conflict that ended nearly seven decades ago is still shaping so much of our lives. Politics, demographics, ethnic relations – the way we think of all these things, and many more, can be traced … Continue reading
Ernest Hemingway: The Spanish Earth (1937)
What a cool find, and thanks as always, YouTube. This documentary provides not only one of the few surviving recordings of Hemingway’s voice (he narrated it), it also represents one of his only willing collaborations with the film industry (he … Continue reading
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Tagged A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, hemingway, The Killers, The Spanish Earth, To Have and Have Not
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Pleiades at play
There’s this star cluster in Taurus. I can’t take my eyes off it. Which is remarkable in two ways. The first is that there’s nothing remarkable about this star cluster. It’s up there half the year, easy to find, you … Continue reading
