Blood Business

Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read:

[ photo: Catherine Spader ]

Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but when I focused in, it was on one of Ed Bryant’s last two published stories. So cool to get to read his words to a big crowd. Thanks, Hex Publishers / Josh Viola. And, thanks, …

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Shawn Kemp

In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:

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So cool

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Hooded Justice

Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night.

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

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Tunes and stories, paired up

Very cool, what Boden’s doing. You know him from the covers of Three Miles Past and Sterling City:

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Werewolves and trucks

So cool to see this sticker on a truck I used to have (a truck that I left in a field for a few years, but that now lives in the magazines):

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The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders

Home invasion done the Wes Anderson way. I’d somehow missed this, until the SNL Halloween special. Can’t embed the video, but I can link it, anyway.

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