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Swill Reading Oakland Tuesday 16 Oct 2010 | 05:33 pm
If you're in Oakland (California: non-California Oaklanders need not apply) next Tuesday, October 19, there is a reading celebrating issue 5 of Swill and issue 9 of Monday Night. The reading will be a...
Different Media, Different Methods 12 Sep 2010 | 05:38 am
This started as an email to Sean Craven (http://seancraven.blogspot.com/). Thus there are some second person phrasings in here. If you are not Sean and they apply to you, fine. If not, well, I liked t...
Table Assembly Instructions For Aliens 6 Sep 2010 | 08:40 am
This picture is the complete assembly instructions for an Ikea table. Granted, they leave out that you have to hold the screws with a wrench or something while attaching the table legs, but that's not...
The United States of Oakland 9 Aug 2010 | 01:27 pm
Possibly backdrop for my novel, which is pretty much completed but, uh, needs some backdrop. Anyway, so far this is fiction: The states were no longer united. Regional interests had become irreconcil...
SWILL 5 COMING SOON 3 May 2010 | 12:55 pm
We don't have a table of contents yet, we haven't finished line edits, and we haven't yet responded to all submissions because many of the stories we've accepted are short and may not quite fill an is...
And here's what I think of public displays of affection 21 Feb 2010 | 07:55 am
Stop advertising your love Nobody cares about happiness Unless it affects their own So give me some of that Or get it out of my sight Cheers, lovebirds, May you toast yourselves with strychnine.
I'm Not Here 23 Jan 2010 | 07:09 pm
Well, not enough anyway. I stop in periodically and see numerous posts I'm interested in, then try to read the ones I'm most interested in based on the subject. Because... I'm rewriting the ending of...
Everybody! It's Ghandi's Birthday! 6 Oct 2009 | 03:10 pm
Ya gotta dress like Mahatma, don't ya?
Went to get a beer in Oakland 5 Oct 2009 | 04:52 pm
Nine o'clock, Sunday night, wanted a beer. I live in Oakland and the nearest good liquor store is a mile away. It's night, it's Oakland, that's a drive. Two blocks from my house, police cars are bloc...
Oh dear, is that black man the President? 17 Sep 2009 | 06:07 pm
I would love to see something about President Barack Obama that doesn't involve race. But Obama isn't the one who initiates race as the context. He is a man who has been given the task of fixing every...
