I must confess, I'm not much of a fan of vampire fiction. There have been a few rare and gleaming exceptions, like I Am Legend by Richard Matheson or the character of Cassidy in Garth Ennis' delightfully debauched Preacher comic book series, but mostly it's a genre that's left me pretty indifferent. I had no interest in Anne Rice's books and even less in the...
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'about being written off as
a poor man's Bukowski?'
I answer, quite honestly
for a pretentious, wannabe poet:
'I'd be happy being
anyone's
Bukowski.'
Which was a cute line, I thought,
but she still
didn't fuck me.
Maybe I was
someone's
Bukowski, but I
definitely wasn't
hers.
I got the sweetest ever 'fan mail' the other day. A retired English Literature professor (and a really talented writer) contacted me through a poetry website where I post, after reading my debut novel, Anhedonia. He gave me some of the most effusive and encouraging feedback I've ever had which - given his own formidable writing skills and his breadth of reading - has...
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Check this out. A delightfully odd Star Wars fan, Dave Shorter, has dedicated considerable time amassing a bewilderingly large collection of identical Admiral Ackbar figures. He now attempts to document his epic journey in pictorial form.
For those who missed it, Dave gained notoriety within the fandom after this video of his panel at a toy fair hit the net:
You have twenty minutes to...
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We were supposed to be recording a new poetry video, but we got off to a somewhat rocky start.