I forgot to mention that a few weeks back I sold a reprint of my story “The Girl in the Basement” to Apex Magazine.  The story first appeared in Hatter Bones. It should be out in September, which is, holy cow, tomorrow.  Where did the summer go?

Went and saw Inglourious Basterds yesterday.  Thought I’d be put off by the “Let’s go kill some Nazis, yee ha!” attitude that the commercial promised.  Not that I have anything against killing Nazis, but the trope is kind of tiresome.  Plus I was afraid Tarantino would make light of the whole situation.  You know, turn the slaughter of 10 million or so people into Kill Bill Vaudeville.  But the film won me over in the end. It wasn’t the silly 70s-esque voice-over intro of Nazi killer Stiglitz or the Brooklyn baseball …

I’ve got this Google alert that emails me any time something with “Paper Cities” comes up.  About fifty percent of the time it comes up with Paper Cities, the rock band.  That’s no joke.  They’re a real band out of Kansas City.  I don’t know why, but I’ve only just listened to them now.  They sound pretty damn good.  Here’s there Myspace page.

Went to see a children’s play called Clownsville last night in Tribeca.  About an office drone who falls asleep and wakes up in an Oz-like realm called, yep, Clownsville.  Ostensibly about pencil-pusher Thomas who’s forgotten his childhood dreams, it also taught the Law of Attraction in Sesame Street-like edu-musicals, i.e. what you send out is what you get back, as you sow, so shall you reap, etc., illustrated by singing call and response with the audience.  I first thought I had walked in on Romper Room, but the music got …

After two weeks of hard work I’m happy to present the new Senses Five Press website.  I wanted to incorporate the entire site into WordPress, and I believe I have succeeded.  However, it’s still a work-in-progress, and not all of the links & pages from before will be working correctly.  (In particular, most of the online fiction and story samples need to be imported).  I’ll do my best to fix the broken links in a timely manner.  In the meantime, have a look around and let me know what you …