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Of sable reptiles & other things
A long, long time ago, I loved The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime FictionI picked it up in a secondhand bookshop on the Khao San Road, a place wedged between a 24 hour bar that played old Hanoi Rocks albums on a loop & an establishment of ill repute, the kind of place where you could buy clip-on dreadlocks, pirated Tom Waits CDs & "pre-loved" ( Read more... ) -
Back from the dead
It appears I am once again back on Livejournal, or what remains of it after nearly half a decade.
To celebrate, here is GVCCI HVCCI:
The reason I'm back from the dead, back from the dead etc etc., is that I've had some stories published & accepted lately, which is nice.
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On Marquez-Pacquiao IV: Man-love, piss-drinking & counter-punching
Business as usual. How things change, & how others stay the same. A draw & two bitterly contested losses, & Juan Manuel Marquez is back in the ring with Manny Pacquiao once again Saturday night ( Read more... ) -
A rare thing of beauty, part 245,567
Nightmare, With Angels ( Read more... ) -
What I blame books for
I think that what I blame books for, in general, is that they are not free. One can see it in the writing: they are fabricated, organized, regulated; one could say they conform. A function of the revision that the writer often wants to impose on himself. At that moment, the writer becomes his own cop. By being concerned with good form, in other ( Read more... ) -
Last night, a vat-grown Samurai warrior virgin saved my (boxing) life
Boxing is like a bad love affair. Once it's wormed its way into your heart, you'll happily haemorrhage money, sanity & peace of mind just to taste it again. Life dwindles & contracts about a point, so that you measure out your span in the distance between big fights. Daily life seems a mundane chore. Your self-respect flies out the window. Your ( Read more... ) -
What I would've said, had I been half as good
This is Carlos Acevedo's terrible, beautiful eulogy to Johnny Tapia, the three-weight world champion who died a couple of weeks ago. I've been trying to write something about Tapia ever since the news broke, but Mr Acevedo has done me the huge kindness of conveying exactly what I wanted to convey better than I ever could.
Go read it.
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For my own reference
Or rather, to remind myself to get a book on it out the library...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
That is all.
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