Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
What are you going to be for halloween?
One downside of constantly traveling is that you don’t really have time to get a costume together for halloween. Or at least, I haven’t successfully in the past few years. But then I got to thinking about it. It’s halloween. I’m a goth. I’m allowed to just go as myself. One night a year where [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Magpie
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Writer In Residency!
As anyone who has heard me ramble in the past two months knows, I’ve been accepted by a writer-in-residency program in Pittsburgh at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse. While I’m here I’ll be polishing up my super-secret project that I’ll be talking about incessantly once I’ve got it done. I’m excited as hell to be in a [...]
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Ithaca Is Ogres
I just spent several days up in Ithaca, NY. I went to do a book talk, but stayed for the waterfalls. Well, and the company of course. Seriously, Ithaca is absolutely stunning. The autumn leaves and the fair weather didn’t hurt at all. And guess what, travel kids: they want more travel kids to show [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Photo Essay by Magpie
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Insult to injury: a judge offends those arrested at the G-20
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article that covers the repulsive, infuriating behavior of some condescending douchebag of a judge. Over 100 “protesters,” mostly students, went before District Judge Kevin E. Cooper to be scolded and treated like kids are treated by crap parents. “Nicholas, you appear to be a timid guy. You couldn’t get out [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Political by Magpie
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Looking for radical goths
For a couple of years I’ve been talking about starting a zine that explores radical goth. The other day, I met someone in Asheville who said to me “people said we should talk, since apparently we have a lot in common, people say that we’re both recovering goths.” “I’m not recovering,” I said. “I’m quite [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Projects by Magpie
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Updates on Professor Calamity and Tortuga House
Friends of Tortuga has a blog now, so you can keep up with what’s happening on the “arrested and raided for twittering” front. Here’s the latest (emphasis mine): Oh, how the days have flown. Oh, what the days have shown? It is now over two weeks since the raid on Tortuga House, and we are [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Political by Magpie
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Automatic Insurrection!
The sum of all modern insurrectionist thought has been created! It is Automatic Insurrection! For reals, check it out.
No Comments » - Posted in Random by Magpie
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Yes. More of this, please.
Go look at these long-exposure photos, all done in camera, not manipulated later in the darkroom or computer or anything. It’s called LAPP.
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Review of “One Fine Summer”
My biased friend Dea wrote an excellent review of Being The Adventure of One Fine Summer (which you can download for free). Dea is one of the better writers I know, and I appreciate that she gives a proper review, the bad as well as the good (in fact, her blog title, Darlings Will Be [...]
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
SteamPunk’s Professor Calamity faces multiple felonies for twittering
Update: Professor Calamity on Democracy Now SteamPunk Magazine author (and, honestly, the inspiration for SteamPunk Magazine) Professor Calamity is facing two felonies for allegedly running a twitter account. He has been accused of running a twitter feed of police movements during the Pittsburgh G-20 protests, protests for which the police are already being sued. To [...]
