Posted inAmbulations

Fridge of the Damned: Production Complete!

Thanks to the support of so many generous readers, our successful project on kickstarter has brought something new into this world. Perhaps something sinister and terrifying, as well. The Fridge of the Damned magnetic word tile set! These "poetry magnets" have been manufactured by US Magnetix and all 210 pounds of them have been delivered to my publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press, who will be working with Nathan Rosen at microhorror.com to distribute these and the myriad rewards that are going out in the first few weeks of March in appreciation to those who helped fund this project. (You might…
February 27, 2013Posted inAmbulations
Posted inData+Errata

Announcing the Book Haiku contest winners

The latest issue of The Goreletter (Vol. 7.01: "Cibophobia") included a special subscribers-only contest that involved writing a haiku summary of one of my books and posting it to LibraryThing's #bookhaiku page. Here are the winning entries (surprise: I've added a bonus for 4th place!). These fine folks are all each receiving a signed copy of Many Genres, One Craft, an uncased copy of the film based on my short-shorts, Exquisite Corpse, on DVD, and a special signed CD-R single of "The Bleu Man Group" (featuring both live and studio versions), excerpted from the ArnzenSongs CD (currently in production as…
February 16, 2013Posted inData+Errata
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

This 1953 animation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story, "The Tell-Tale Heart", in my opinion remains the best adaptation of the story. Narrated by actor James Mason, produced by UPA...and purportedly the first cartoon to be X-rated in Great Britain. Of course, you should also read the original story, too. *** See the full playlist of my Saturday Morning Cartoons on youtube.
February 9, 2013Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inArnzen News

The Fridge of the Damned: A Raging Success!

A gigantic "THANK YOU!" to everyone who so generously backed our kickstarter project for The Fridge of the Damned magnetic word tile kit! This unique novelty item was not only successfully funded on Feb 1st, 2013, but we reached 200% of our goal from the contributions of so many kind backers, which allows us to deliver the set to everyone in custom tins. THANK YOU! And I also have to thank the folks who joined forces with me -- my publishers, John and Jennifer at Raw Dog Screaming Press, who not only have chipped in many of the rewards but…
February 3, 2013Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

Infant Intolerable

Here's a Saturday morning cartoon that's both endearing and surprisingly brutal: Infant Intolerable by animator Peter J. Casey. I do not endorse child abuse, and neither should you, but...these are blobby organ monsters, right? On the demo real of his work (posted on his blog), Casey shares that this animation was an experiment to see how much emotion he could get out of very simple characters...and the simple story was inspired by a plane ride. Any parent or air traveller can probably empathize...
February 2, 2013Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons