John Hodgman offers a great review of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus for the New York Times book review.
Link.

All I ever seem to get in the way of comments is spam (and the occasional irate 9/11 “truther”). The spam is bizarre, incoherent ramblings that I suspect are somehow computer generated. Here are some examples:
Furies came water from futurama i want my hands back very jolly credit card down money no olborn. Staines has […]

Waffle House is a yellow, tobacco stained, 24-hour Southern institution and someone is seeking to publish a book of waffle related stories. Whoever they are, they’re seeking submissions of “Fiction and nonfiction short stories under 3000 words. Poetry and haiku will also be considered for publication.” Motherfucking Waffle House haikus!
Never play the song
“I have raisins […]

I’ve never been a huge opponent of DRM. It seems natural that copyright owners would seek to protect their property in some way and the draw backs, such as increased power consumption by devices playing protected files, seemed minimal. But today defective by design hit home.
I’ve already blogged about loving Larry Brown but I haven’t […]

If you enjoy modern literature, you owe it to yourself to become familiar with the work of Mississippian writer Larry Brown. Brown is a recent, and rather recently deceased, fixture of Southern American lit whose work honestly, unflinchingly and quite beautifully paints life in the north Mississippi sticks.
Author of six novels, two short story […]

Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night.
With bruised arms and broken rhythm in a beat-up old Buick
But dressed,
Just like,
Dynamite.
He tried sellin’ his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street.
But they sighed “Johnny it falls apart so easy,
And you know hearts,
These days,
Are cheap.”
And the pimps swung their axes,
And said […]

I updated the Words. page with some special pre-server-nightmare blog posts.
Here.
Coming soon: Bad Short Fiction!

The aftermath of a liquid dinner
At least my liver doesn’t feel like a bowling ball today
At least the spiders haven’t carried me on their backs into the front yard
At least my headache isn’t worse
At least I can go buy food when I find the energy
At least the tap water isn’t warmer
At least I have a […]

SciFi.com is gutting annihilating their archive of science fiction stories.

As of Friday, June 15, 2007, SCI FICTION will no longer be available on SCIFI.COM. SCIFI.COM would like to thank all those who contributed and those who read the short stories over the past few years.
Get it while it’s extant.
Link via BoingBoing via Joel. (I […]

My bad poetry.
There’s not really good poetry anymore. And now, my awful poems have made their triumphant return to the Web.
My awful short fiction should return shortly and my awful sculptures will be back when I can figure out the best way to create a presentable gallery page.
And the bio of course. I should put […]