Everybody must have a song of defiance -- music that makes you run faster and throw harder and realize you're strong, and that you're not going to take crap from the gods.  It's what you listen to when you've loved and lost, or when you're walking out of the building with all your stuff in a box.  It doesn't soothe you.  It hollers at you: "Get mad ( Read more... )

First things first: I'm a media star.

Okay, probably not.  But still, I just appeared on TV. HBO just aired two documentaries -- TRUE BLOODLINES: VAMPIRE LEGENDS and A NEW TYPE -- in conjunction with their upcoming True Blood series.  I'm very excited.  If you have HBO, write in and tell me how I did.

In other news, you can now get a full copy of the ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't blogged atcha people.  I've been entangled in some freelancing craziness involving spies, chili powder, and tax audits.  No one got hurt.

But there's a new essay over at the project by a guy named Joel Emerson.

Check it out:
http://draculawasframed.blogspot.com/

I just got a mention in my hometown paper, and I anticipate some traffic to the site. So for all you crazy folks living and working in my corner of the Old Dominion, howdy!

Also, buy my damn book. Please.

Amazon link right here.

Sorry I haven't posted something in this space, but I was on the bender of booze, red meats, refined sugar, ridiculous minivan roadtrips and festive sweaters that we Bibeaus traditionally take to celebrate the Birth of Our Saviour.  Jesus becomes my excuse for that 15th piece of fudge dipped in whiskey.  And then, in true Christian fashion, I feel ( Read more... )

My buddy Dr. Kembrew McLeod, a sociology professor and expert on intellectual property, has a pranksterish side.  In Vlad, I mention how he sold his soul on EBay.  Now he's dressing up as a robot and heckling Bill Clinton to get him to apologize to Sister Souljah.  It's a long story.

http://mr-ifobca.org/

I love that guy.

What was the worst part of the 1970's in America? What part of that decade finally snapped the remaining thread of decency and compassion that held back the junk bonds, televangelism, and the army of guys in paisley ties snorting coke while they wrecked the manufacturing sector?

Was it the hostage crisis? Watergate? The rise of Soviet power in the ( Read more... )

This morning I read a website  from what seemed like a scientific organization which argued that there were many misconceptions surrounding climate change.  The site stated that they weren't "deniers," but that the issue was more complicated than most people understood.  Fair enough, I suppose.  I have no idea who they are, though, and who finances ( Read more... )

Some of my LJ compadres are getting their snow on, and it makes me jealous.  So I dug up this old poem I wrote during the blizzard we had in January 1996 along the east coast of the US.  It paralyzed cities like DC and also NYC where I happened to be living.  Mayor Giuliani was on TV telling everyone to stay home, many of the subway lines were down ( Read more... )

Down here in Virginia, you can easily find someone who will tell you that the "first" Thanksgiving didn't occur in the Plymouth rock vicinity.  It took place in an area a few miles away from Williamsburg along the James River, near what is now Berkeley Plantation.

Here's the quote: On this day, Dec. 4, 1619, these 38 men from Berkeley Parish in ( Read more... )