Posted inData+Errata

Site Shift: New Page for MichaelArnzen.com!

I've changed hosts for my social networking hub -- from posterous.com to flavors.me -- because the latter has the minimalism and simplicity I have been aiming for. The domain remains http://michaelarnzen.com But some older links that invoked my old hub may no longer work, navigating you down into a level of Dante's hell that Dante never mentioned before -- called "Expurgatory" (never to be uttered aloud) -- for fear of driving the average man mad.  Other former links might be absorbed by spambots spawned from the android womb of Robot Justin Bieber, who lives in an underground bunker rumored to…
October 20, 2011Posted inData+Errata
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Scalin’s SKULL A DAY

Here's a fantastic image from Noah Scalin's five-year running SKULL-A-DAY blog, book, and other diverse creative projects. Lots of great art and ideas on his site, which has just been a great, sustained mill of morbid creativity with such a sustained commitment to the project. My favorite, I think, is the image (pictured above) of a "Skull of Brains" that Scalin made by arranging actual brain slices encased in acrylic at the wonderful Mutter Museum. See his blog entry on the project for a behind-the-scenes video of its construction and more shots of this big, brainy skull. I think a…
October 18, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inAmbulations

Photos from Frostburg Small / Regional Press Fair 2011

Had fun in Frostburg this weekend for the 2011 Western Maryland Small and Regional Press Festival. The fun folks I got to hang with are in the photos: my co-editor for Many Genres, Heidi Ruby Miller and I sat on a panel with Courtney Ruffner (editor, Florida English) on "Publishing Basics"; authors Jason Jack Miller, Jessica McHugh and Post Mortem Press editor Eric Beebe and I all sat on a panel about science fiction, fantasy and horror; and two of my publishers were on hand -- Jennifer Barnes and John Edward Lawson from Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Cynthia McCloud…
October 16, 2011Posted inAmbulations