Monthly Archives: September 2008

Wins and Losses

9/27/2008 – 7:32 pm

Mad City United won again, this time 5-2. I again opened the scoring early in the first half, and again it had to be one of the most god-awful goals in league history. I shot from about 20 yards out (again, almost the same exact circumstance) but didn’t hit it all that well. The [...]

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Black Static 7 Coming Soon…

9/27/2008 – 11:11 am

Google alerts has just informed me that Black Static #7 has gone to press, and it will be featuring my story “The Hodag.” Not to be a complete suck up, but the covers for Black Static have been unbelievable, and check out this creepy little number gracing the cover of issue #7:

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The Brilliance of Ben Marcus

9/26/2008 – 6:01 pm

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Every once in awhile you read a book that somehow warps your perspective. On everything. I’m about half done with Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String, which we’re reading for my restrictions & obstructions writing workshop, and I adore it.
I don’t know what it is—it’s certainly not a novel, but [...]

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Sweet Relief and Listing

9/25/2008 – 11:17 am

We’re having student conferences this week (15-20 minutes per student, 20 students) in lieu of classes, so I arranged the appointments on Mon-Tues-Fri so I’ve had Wed and Thurs at home and man, has it been lovely. The difference between driving three days a week versus four is pretty significant and I’ve gotten a lot [...]

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Blogging is the First Thing to Go…

9/22/2008 – 9:34 pm

…followed closely by sleeping, then sanity.
No, I don’t want this space to become a complaint list for how cross-eyed busy I’ve become with school and the admin job and the driving and how I’m failing to accomplish everything I want to get done in a time frame that allows me to take the occasional breath.
But [...]

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Steamrolled and Strange Spanish

9/17/2008 – 4:17 pm

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That’s pretty much how I feel right about now. Just beat. This semester is going to be very rough if the first three weeks are any indication of what’s to come. Teaching comp 101 is taxing work with 24 students, although that number has now dropped and will drop some more as students [...]

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Making Hard Work

9/14/2008 – 4:22 pm

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You know you’re getting old when you have to force yourself to stay up to watch a 9:30 kickoff. I watched the Badgers play at Fresno State in a bar and it was all I could do to keep from falling asleep in the second half. There were a lot [...]

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United Triumphant, 8-1!

9/13/2008 – 3:06 pm

Mad City United won by a convincing score of 8-1 today on a gray, rain-soaked morning. The field was actually not in too bad of shape and we managed to pass the ball pretty well (obviously) despite the conditions. I did not play all that well, but did manage to score a goal (the [...]

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A Positive

9/12/2008 – 9:28 am

Hey! The new Graveside Tales anthology entitled The Beast Within is coming out soon, and it’s already gotten a few positive reviews from early reviewers. Happily, Stephen Studach of HorrorScope mentions my story “Of Silver Bullets and Golden Teeth” under the heading “stories that make this assemblage worthy.”
And that’s always good.
Current Mood: Pleased | Currently [...]

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Como Aqua Para Chocolate

9/12/2008 – 8:49 am

I finished reading my first audio book of the academic year, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water For Chocolate—and don’t let the post title fool you, I did listen in English, not Spanish. I thought it was okay.
I am planning on plowing through a lot of staples of Latin American magical realism in the next year, and [...]

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