Posted inData+Errata

“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
Posted inArnzen News

Holiday Round-Up

  Happy Holidays! I've been extremely busy on many fronts, personal and professional -- and now that I'm on a brief holiday break, I'm catching up with obligations and promises.  I plan to get the next issue of The Goreletter out soon, but for now I thought I'd give everyone a quick round-up of what's happening in Arnzenland lately: Big news:  The Gorelets Omnibus is scheduled for a January 2012 release!  If you preorder a copy directly from Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my other books, 100 Jolts & Play Dead), you'll get a free collector's item! Get the…
December 23, 2011Posted inArnzen News