Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Nasty, Brutish, and Short…no, I’m not talking about my ex (or yours).  NBNS is a site featuring the flash fiction of Patrick M. Tracy.  I especially liked Little Mementos.  Here’s a snippet: “Sandy Beckford, his partner in Robbery/Homicide, got a good snicker out of it.  Alex remembered when she’d have been sick looking at something [...]

November 07 Comment Contest Winner

Congratulations Glenn Ingersoll.  You are the winner of the easiest contest ever!  Please let me know which site you’d like your ginormously huge monetary reward ($5 gift certificate) to go to:  amazon.com or cafepress.com. And for everyone who hasn’t won yet but would like to, check back for another easy contest in December.

Best Porn Spam Comment Ever

I get a lot of comments on this site that are advertisers looking to generate links to their own pages.  Most are either car dealerships or porn sites (equally sleazy, in my opinion). Usually, the automatically generated comment is 1 of 3 things: Cool. Interesting. Sorry Or it will be some sort of gibberish generated by [...]

The Orange Room Review

Thank you to Justin Hyde for sending me an email and turning me on to the online poetry journal, The Orange Room Review.  (Yes, I am getting some emails, but I’m not sure if I’m getting all emails, so if you’ve sent me one and think I’m ignoring you, I probably didn’t receive it.  Or [...]

Jet-Powered Outhouse-mobile

Forget showy roadsters and souped-up muscle cars.  If you feel the need for speed combined with a desire to stand out from the crowd, then there really is only one choice…the speeding outhouse: “Some folks like to take their time on the can. Not Paul Stender. When the 43-year-old former pit mechanic feels the need [...]

We Swallow(ed) Spiders in our Sleep

The latest edition of Word Riot is out, and a review caught my eye because of the title of the book:  We Swallow(ed) Spiders In Our Sleep.  The book is a collection of poems by Zachary C. Bush, and you can read the review here, which includes a few excerpts.  I gather that the reviewer, [...]

L8r G8r — A Novel Using Internet-speak

The quest to feature one 2007 novel for each letter of the alphabet continues.  L8r G8r (as in “Later Gator”) by Lauren Myracle represents the letter “L,” and it looks really freakin’ cool.  It is the third in a series of young adult novels (although there’s no reason the book can’t be enjoyed by old [...]

Listen

Here’s the other poem I had published in The Advocate.  I grew up by the Pacific ocean, and although I get terribly seasick, I’ve always had a love for the ocean (as long as I’m looking at it from the shore!). Listen by Edie Montgomery-Pool Listen! Lie as still as you can. Close your eyes – [...]

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel

Sex, sex, and more sex.  That’s what it sounds like this book consists of.  It’s not due out until December 26th, but you can pre-order it at amazon.  It’s called Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel, and it’s by bestseller Walter Mosley.  Tom Callahan at bookreporter.com had this to say about the novel: “Well, anybody who [...]

Tell Me Something Strange About Yourself

Was reading the blog, Fumbling Towards Myself, and came across this post which features 7 strange facts about the author, the first 2 being: One. the only thing that makes me vomit (other than too much drink) is spit. The sight of it. The idea of it. Even speaking about it. If I think of [...]