Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

Scuttlebuggery: Soccer for Scarabs

Scuttlebuggery is a stylishly steampunk online promotional game for the goth band Johnny Hollow, brought to you by the geniuses at My Pet Skeleton Productions (maker of "A Murder of Scarecrows" featured here awhile back). In this game you play a scuttlebug -- a round beetle who must figure out how to push bubbles of absinthe toward a drain, dodging beetles and fluttering moths along the way. It's like soccer for scarabs. And though it sounds like child's play, it is a Sisyphean challenge that will likely make you appreciate the vast labor of the insect world, scuttling all around…
September 27, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Morbid Curiosity Cures The Blues

I love this dangerous and disturbing book, and highly recommend it...especially if you're getting bored with the run of the same old mills: Learn more... Read that book. And if you're still hungry for more, and you can find back issues of the (now defunct) magazine that spawned this book, you might find my memoir of Amityville lurking in Morbid Curiosity #7.
September 21, 2009Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews

Flash Reviews of Semi-Autobiographical Fictions

Sorry for the length of this section, but I'm making up for lost time. This time around I offer four three "flash" reviews of books that are quite effective because they inexplicably feel "autobiographical" in some way, despite being entirely, totally, and thankfully made up. >> Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder Snyder is a massively talented writer -- the sort who knows how to make you take a gulp when you hit the ending of a story or poem -- and this poetry collection made me gulp with awe on virtually every page. Although her poetry/fiction collection Sparks and…
June 13, 2009Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews