The Book of Life (2014)—movie review

My first movie review! Up now at Pyscho Drive In. The Book of Life, a great movie not just for children. Click on the pic to go:

Pornographic Sonnets #2, 5 and 7

Three of my 'pornographic sonnets', #'s 2, 5 and 7, now up at HORROR SLEAZE TRASH. Formatting got lost, so they don't look as sonnet-y as I'd like, but hey.

Warning: NSFW. Click on the naked woman to go:

Passing Influence—poem

"Passing Influence" appeared in the literary magazine FENCE way back in 2001. My first big time publication!
 

Passing Influence

                                    for Susan Wheeler

This is the best part, hate which now

brings you the whole head in reality–

the man’s SUV slides down the road.

Dancing on the (I don’t know the word) tile

you look down slowly;

this is exercise or punishment.

For only a few minutes you have reeled in, forgetting to

lose (you forget cacti), and before it was obscure:

the driveway which surrounds this dry desert

is the dawn entrance of rapists. In this life

they catch children at the critical moment

and undress the bodies in the heat.

The real stupidity, you know, is always

                                    paying the asking price.

Then the plane lands, and the man

lights your joint and takes a stone from his briefcase

and leaves a ship of idiocy in the seat.

You are sinking; he has bent your arm, whispering

you are under the boot of a man.

Clumsiness is insect-like, it means punishment.

So you did everything expected, and in your pain

you remembered not to ask whether it was irrational

or only a steady pool on the floor. Loss, fade

distinguish, worms crawling in the dirt,

a maze of arrivals uncrossed like coathangers around which

during pleasant days, voices make mounds of death.

Every night you have locked a door and turned on a lamp

that leaves only the best comfort.

He calls to say he is ready to come. There is

nothing. Now you can’t recognize the abyss

for what it was, now in there, under the dying river,

a goatman is leaving you, nervously straight; promising death.

Action Philosophers: 10th Anniversary Überediton

My review of Action Philosophers: 10th Anniversary Überediton, by Fred Van Lente, now up at Comics Bulletin. Click on the pic to go:

Aliens vs. Judge Dredd vs. Predator: a review

Because why not? My review of the new Aliens vs. Judge Dredd vs. Predator. Click on Dredd, drokk it, to read:

Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone #1

My review of Alien vs. Predator (AVP) Fire and Stone #1. Part of this week's Singles Going Steady. Click on the Predator to go:

Prometheus # 1 & 2: Fire and Stone

My review of the new Prometheus series, at Comics Bulleting. Click on scary head to go!

Reading on Wed Oct 15 and Thurs Oct 16 in Wyoming

I'll be reading in Rock Springs and Green River, Wyoming, with two other writers featured in ON FOOT.

When: Wednesday October 15th at, 6 pm (I think). Where: Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs Main Campus.

When: Thursday October 16th, 6pm (I think).
Where: Western Wyoming Community College, Green River Campus

Wytches #1: A Review

My review of Wytches #1, part of the Sunday Slugfest on Comics Bulletin, is now up: Click on the creepy pic to go: