Today I mark 20,000 days on Planet Earth. This morning I dreamt of life's fragility, vivid animated textbook cut-aways of living systems failing at the slightest of catastrophic tremors. Yet I can only marvel at life's persistence, and the cussed, blessed heartiness and hardiness of every living individual, even as I remain in thrall to the ( Read more... )

Months ago, Pauline Oliveros encouraged me to submit a performance proposal for the Festival portion of the Second Annual International Deep Listening Conference being held next weekend at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I did, and as a result I will have the honor of reading/performing two works there, starting at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 13 ( Read more... )

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After fifty years of insatiable conspiratorial theorizing, by far the most radical, most terrifying conclusion that can be drawn also happens to be the simplest conclusion and the one that indisputably fits more of the facts than any other: Oswald acted alone.

In 2010 my friend Scott Marshall in his guise as LifeSize released his wonderfully eclectic debut album Eden Next Left. Here’s one of my favorite songs from the album:

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A month ago Scott launched a Kickstarter campaign so he can complete the recording of his second album Dream Walking. Right now (7:24 a.m. EST on Sunday, 13 October 2013) the ( Read more... )

I've just learned that the Taiwan-based journal of art and ideas, WHITE FUNGUS, will be translating my newly-revised and expanded 8,600-word essay / story / prolegomenon "The First Woman on Mars" into Chinese and publishing it side by side with the English version in their next issue, due out in April. The piece begins as an essay and passes ( Read more... )

I kept meaning to check, and kept forgetting. I knew it was coming up -- the day when I would be the exact same age Philip K. Dick was on the day he died. Finally I did check, this very hour, only to discover I've already outlived Philip K. Dick by five days, and that I passed his death-age on New Year's Eve. Oh was I ever lit that night, and not ( Read more... )

Today I received my contributor's copy of All Good Thoughts: A Celebration of Samuel R. Delany's 70th Birthday, edited and privately published by artist Ric Best. There are only 30 copies of this gorgeous hardcover book in existence, which includes original contributions by folks like Alan Moore, Denys Howard, Edmund White, Ellen Datlow, Junot ( Read more... )

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke tell very different, mutually contradictory stories about the virgin birth of Jesus. The Gospel of Mark is entirely silent on the question. The Gospel of John and the letters of Paul very quietly affirm that Jesus was conceived and born in the ordinary human fashion, just like all the rest of us. However he came into ( Read more... )

In memoriam Sandy Hook.

This weekend I will be a guest of the Albany NY science fiction convention Albacon, one of the best small SF conventions I've been to. Most of the events I am participating in are on Saturday, October 20th. Here's my schedule for that day ( Read more... )