Last weekend my cousin Greg popped in for a suprise visit. He lives in Tauranga, New Zealand, so it was no small feat. I would have spent almost every summer with Greg until I was around 15 years old.

We were the perfect example of giggling girls at the dinner table for most of our childhood. This time round we didn't do too much giggling, but there ( Read more... )

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The Last Days of Kali Yuga hasn't received too many reviews, so it's always nice to see one pop up. I don't Mark, but I'm honoured that I have had some small part in helping Mark get back onto the writer's track (a hard, twisting bastard of a track at the best of times).

The full review is here: http://www.markwebb.name/?p=696

As an adolescent I loved the Conan The Barbarian (1982) film. It helped that I was big fan of the original stories, not just by Howard but also by Carter and De Camp, and the artwork that often went with novel covers by Frank Frazetta, who also did covers for the Marvel comic adaptations that housed the artist John Buscema's excellent artwork ( Read more... )

American Horror Story
I enjoyed this a lot, suprisingly as it was on commercial tv and it was from the creators of Glee (which I cannot fucking stand). Scary, creepy, out there, good twists and Jessica Lange.

New Girl
Heavily promoted by Channel 10 and that really should have been all the warnings I needed. I dig Zooey, I really do, but this show was ( Read more... )

I am still horribly underweight and lacking an appetite. Fatigue visits most afternoons, and when Fatigue is taking a break, the stupor from ingesting 30mg of morphine-based painkiller (my wonderful Oxycontin) will have me zoning in and out for an hour or two. Luckily that only happens twice a day ( Read more... )

Very excited to see that my collection The Last Days of Kali Yuga has made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards by the Horror Writers Association. (Bram wrote Dracula, in case you didn't know).

This is the premier international award for Horror writing and I'm very excited to make the preliminary ballot. This long list (a list not so ( Read more... )

The following are the books I've read this year. Anything in green I thought was excellent (5/5).

AUTHOR                                    TITLE                                                                                          YEAR
Sebastian Junger

War

2010

Thomas E. Levy

Curing The Incurable

2002

Orson Scott Card

Pastwatch: The Redemption of ( Read more... )

Radiation finished on Tuesday, the last blast of 10. Fatigue continues to be the main side-effect and I spent most of yesterday falling asleep and waking up and falling asleep, oh, until some time around 9:30pm. A long day, and one in which I decided to not take the anti-nausea which I think was a mistake as I felt miserable. (I think I might have ( Read more... )

I've had three blasts of radiation so far. It's easy to take it (you lie on a table and a machine goes 'buzz') though this time around I'm feeling the side-effects a lot more than four years ago. And understandably so - there's not as much of me anymore to handle it ( Read more... )