Happy Boo-Scary Day!

Back when I lived in San Francisco, between Summer 2003 and Fall 2004, I made lots of CD mixes. Two in particular had been intended both for my own use while driving and to introduce my then-roommate to "that Gothic stuff. These two mixes - Beautiful Pain I and II - featured combinations of must-hear Gawth classics, deep cuts ( Read more... )

Top 10 lists suck. No matter how educated you are about meaningless pop culture, the arbitrary subjugation of a vast subject to an even more arbitrary rank is fairly stupid.

And yet, damn our souls, we find ourselves drawn like starving flies to read, and sometimes even to make, such lists. Is there some atavistic reflex involved? Simple curiosity ( Read more... )

So yeah... I used to have this Livejournal thingie that I used to post on a lot... and then I forgot about it... which means I forgot to mention here that...

THE BOOK I'D BEEN WORKING ON SINCE 2004 HAS FINALLY BEEN RELEASED! :)

Goblin Markets - The Glitter Trade is the second sourcebook for Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium. I began writing ( Read more... )

The Corporate Citizen is in the dock. He (and let's be honest, the Corporate Citizen is masculine) has a fire under his ass right now that no amount of bribery, mockery, or denial can extinguish. He may have bought the Supreme Court, Congress, the cops and maybe even the president, but he's in trouble. The crows have come to roost, and this time we ( Read more... )

In response to my friend Inara's question, "Why do you think sex generates so much anger and fear among mainstream folk?" I had this reflection and response:

Sex is scary. It's unpredictable, vulnerable, and primal. Society makes rules to maintain at least an illusion of stability, and sexuality is too powerful a force to ever truly be reliable ( Read more... )

Okay, yes - Osama bin Laden is dead. Good riddance. Now let's back to more important issues - like METAL!!!!!


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Things are happening here in Seattle. They’ve been happening for years, but this past weekend, at Norwescon and elsewhere, the tempo picked up speed. A year or two ago, SJ Tucker prophesied, “Someday, people will look back on this time and this Tribe and wonder what it was like to be us.” Last week provided a preview of that future pondering.

So ( Read more... )

Let’s face it: Fantasy is kinky. Even without the overt eroticism of bondage death-traps and chainmail bikinis, the Fantasy tradition (and its incestuous cousins Horror, Romance, SF, and Badass Action) brims with sublimated sex. Swords, wands, cups and caves, virile heroes and hungry heroines, vile wretches and lusty wenches - the tropes and ( Read more... )

For those folks who haven't yet seen my urban fantasy webcomic Arpeggio - and especially for those folks who have! - I've created a new LiveJournal community called arpeggio_comic - the urban fantasy saga of a clueless teenage bard.

Drawn by Bryan Syme, edited and posted by ( Read more... )

Cold water’s rising fast, drowning the city in thick deep gulps. Branches dance in the trees above our heads. Cain trembles next to me, chest-high in the rising flood. Something wild, drunk and terrible runs loose up the hill near Turner Street, smashing bottles and laughing at the rain. We saw that pack of hurricane commandos busting car windows ( Read more... )