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Support the Alpha Workshop Fundraiser – Bid on ‘Many Genres’

Check out the Alpha Workshop Fundraiser, which is a chance to donate to a scholarship fund for a worthy young genre writer's workshop and also pick up some excellent science fiction, fantasy and horror-related books and other services. Alpha is a fantastic workshop; I've taught there as a guest three times, and every time I've visited I've been very impressed by the students, who go on to publish and make a dent in the industry. For their fundraiser, I've contributed a signed copy of the how-to book I edited with Heidi Ruby Miller, Many Genres One Craft, to their fundraising…
January 14, 2012Posted inData+Errata
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“Eyebombing” – when the uncanny is cute

Here's the latest entry posted to my Popular Uncanny weblog, musing over the cutely weird meme known as "Eyebombing" (eyebombing.com) -- affixing googly eyes to inanimate objects in the public square -- and how it taps into feelings of strange familiarity.   "Eyebombing is the Fozzie-Bearification of the community property -- the Jim Hensoning of the public square. There is a return of the repressed invoked here, but it very well may a repressed belief in the power of folk art, which has been increasingly "surmounted" by technology..."
December 25, 2011Posted inData+Errata