Archive for November, 2009
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Some shit on race, “nationalist anarchists,” anti-racist black metal
I seem to have picked up a racist “anarchist” reader from somewhere, so I want to make this explicit: Nazis should fuck off and die. Racism and nationalism have nothing to do with anarchist political theory. We wish you ill. We are not on your side, you are not on our side. I’ve long believed [...]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I finished my first novel today.
I will avoid the use of exclamation marks in this post only by sheer force of will. I set myself the goal last year that I was going to finish my first novel before I turned 27. (which is like 3 weeks from now or something). It still needs some editing, some first-readers, and of [...]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
The future is fuckin crazy
Pick up a book at the bookstore and have the amazon rating projected onto it. This is more interesting than flying cars. Therefore, I think it’s the future now. Weird.
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Vnv nation, dance music, goth vs. punk, all of that stuff
This isn’t actually a video, just a song. And to folks in the goth scene, it’s mostly a played out one. When I first got into goth, it was for the darker, heavier stuff by and large: the swans and skinny puppy. New Model Army, who aren’t as heavy but certainly aren’t electronic dance. I [...]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Novel!
Well, 40,00 words. According to the Science Fiction Writers of America, a novel is a fiction work of 40,000 words or more. I’ve written a couple of novellas, plenty of short stories, and of course I edited a book, but today I crossed over the 40,000 word line in this fiction piece I’m working on. [...]
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
A nuanced critique of the myths that American school promotes
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Life Iz Rambling
image from apelad Do you ever have those mornings where it’s quite clear that you are not exploring ravines beneath a town full of moorish castles? Nor are you in a temporary autonomous zone in the pacific northwest learning how to carve jade from an old hippy? And this is strongly contrary to what you [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
NaWoCoMo!
November is National [obsessing over] Word Count Month, also known locally as NaWoCoMo! (say it with me!) Here at the cyberpunk apocalypse (that’s the name of the house I’m at, you see), we’re celebrating in style! That is, we put a chart on the fridge with all our names and we all keep track of [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
All charges against the pittsburgh twitterers have been dropped!
Thank… well, thank the PR nightmare that was summoned in defense of these two. But Professor Calamity and his comrade have had their charges dropped. (see our original post on the matter for background). But Tortuga House lost the injunction that was preventing the police from looking through all their crap, which is irritating, and [...]
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Interviewed by Alpline Anarchist Productions
My friend Gabriel from Alpine Anarchist Productions—a sort of comparable distro to Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness—has just interviewed me for their new Alpine Anarchist Meets series. The format was a single prompt: “In your book Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: anarchist writers on fiction you have fourteen writers tell you about how their work ties in [...]
