I'm currently buried under piles and piles of Bleak House materials, textual, theoretical, pegagogical, and other, and while it is a lot of work it's going well. I've got ideas forming and that I'm shaping that may be a nascent dissertation area. It feels good to have a vague idea of where I want to go eventually in a year or so when I start ( Read more... )

Not long after getting the photo of one of our tennant raccoons, I was able to get some photos of another wiley creature of the night:


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Just when i thoguht I wouldn't get a chance to see Let the Right One In, I find out that it is playing one show only tonmorrow night at the Beach Theater in St. Pete. I like Tampa, there are many things to reccomend it, still I can't help knowing that the film was playing in Boston months ago, and for a much longer period of time.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you ( Read more... )

My dad was a life-long Republican. A Regan Republican. A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the airforce and a PhD in Political Science from Georgetown, my dad taught at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and worked for Attorney General Ed Meese under Ronald Reagan. As you can imagine this led to a certain amount of friction growing up, as my ( Read more... )

I finally got a photo of one of our neighbors.

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Two Unspeakable Horror reviews, from FearZone and Horror World (up here and here respectively).

They are both very positive, and FearZone in particular has a nice mention of my contribution:

First impressions are everything, which is why a new reader might pick up Unspeakable believing that it is strictly for a gay readership. The truth is ( Read more... )

Its a new year and all of that, and so I too must join the chorus of voices reflecting on the year ( Read more... )

Tampa Bay folk!

The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center is having CRAZY sales on tickets until midnight tonight. Erika and I got reaaallly cheap tickets to Picasso and Lapin Agile, Spamalot, and the opera ofFaust.

Here is the sale website.

Again, the sale ends at midnight tonight, so any interested parties should act quickly.