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5/24/13 08:49 am - shunn - Video: Suzanne Clores takes a ride she can't refuse

At the May 7th edition of Tuesday Funk, returning reader Suzanne Clores related the squirm-inducing tale of a car ride she took with a Brooklyn mobster, and it sounded a little like this...



And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening with Darwyn Jones, Heather Corallo, Lawrence Santoro, Mare Swallow, and G.P.A. (Greatest Poet Alive)!


Crossposted from Tuesday Funk
 

5/23/13 09:58 pm - someposifeed - [Comic 5-23-13] Kitty, No

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05232013.shtml

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5/23/13 09:32 am - shunn - Meet Our Readers: Mare Swallow

Mare Swallow is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Writers Conference, as well as a professional public speaker and public speaking coach. She's the author of "25 Ways to Engage Your Audience," and is currently writing a book that aims to help liberal arts majors get jobs after college.

Please join Mare and all our outstanding readers on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf at 7:30 pm. This 21-and-older event is free.

Mare Swallow


Crossposted from Tuesday Funk
 

5/22/13 09:01 pm - someposifeed - [Comic 5-22-13] Half Season

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05222013.shtml

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5/22/13 01:22 pm - planetx - Ministry Initative Blog Hop Giveaway!

Originally published at jaredaxelrod.com. You can comment here or there.

Hello, Blog-hoppers! Thank you for landing here, if but a moment, as you bounce around the internet scooping up information about all of us involved or in love with The Ministry Initiative. If this your first stop, then no doubt you are wondering what The Ministry Initiative exactly is. Allow me to illuminate:

Galileo Games and Imagine That! Studios have teamed up to bring you an ambitious steampunk project! The Ministry Initiative is a two-part creative endeavor that will not only premiere new fiction from the steampunk world of the Ministry but also present a brand new role playing game from the makers of Bulldogs! and the ENnie Award winning game Shelter in Place. Thrill to the tales in Ministry Protocol anthology, or join in as an Agent in The Ministry Initiative RPG.

Find out more about this endeavor and support the Kickstarter here: http://bit.ly/ministry-initiative

As you may or may not be aware, when you look up steampunk on Wikipedia, you will in fact, see my face. I have also written what is arguably the greatest steampunk graphic novel ever created, The Battle of Blood & Ink (and I will argue this point, eternally. Possibly longer if provided enough wine). So it is a matter of course that I am involved in this grand experiment, having contributed a lovely romp of a story to the planned anthology, involving my favorite things: romance, rocket-packs and bare-knuckled boxing matches.

Truly, they are three great tastes that go great together.

Since this blog-hop is done in the spirit of giving, I am willing to give away one paperback copy of The Battle of Blood & Ink, arguably the greatest steampunk graphic novel ever created, autographed both by myself and the exceptional artist of the book, one Mr. Steve Walker.

How does one achieve this delightful soon-to-be-heirloom-peice, that will be passed down through the generations as befits a work of such stature and genius? Oh, my excited turtledoves, the process could not be simpler. The book will be sent to a commenter chosen at random, provided they are in the US. All you must do is make your type seen below, perhaps with a word or too about how much you want said prize, and what you would be willing to do for it, if I was not giving it away for free out of the spirit of generosity from the deep and bountiful reserves of such stuff within my capacious heart.

And no need to stop here. There’s countless other stops on this blog-hop (well, 27), each of them worth your time even if they weren’t giving away all sorts of glories! Continue on, ye springy-stepped blog-hoppers!

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences J.R. Blackwell Jared Axelrod
PJ Schnyder Leanna Renee Hieber Pete Woodworth
Tee Tate Karina Cooper The Galaxy Express
Tiffany Trent Alex White Delilah S. Dawson
Simply Ali Wicked Little Pixie Books Make Me Happy
MamaKitty Reviews Thats What Im Talking About Kathryn Camisa
Krista Cagg Seleste deLaney Pauline Creeden
The Pen Punks Melissa Jack Mangan
Pauline Baird Jones Vivid Muse Robert C Roman

 

 

 

 

 

The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of Flying City
Purchase available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BooksaMillion, Powells Books, IndieBound, Walmart, Overstock and your local bookseller.

5/21/13 06:20 pm - duncatra - Yet another bunch of random thoughts on Star Trek Into Darkness

So I wasn't super thrilled with Star Trek Into Darkness. It started out fine, but by the end they were anviling the callbacks to the old stuff so hard that I just... Nope.

As I said on Twitter, they went all "I am your father" when they should have gone "I have a bad feeling about this." It was all just TOO MUCH.

I'm not annoyed enough to do anything formal, but I more or less agree with Cleolinda and Christian Blauvelt and there was a third post but I seem to have lost it. Grr.

What does it mean for Episode VII? Well, let's just say I'm glad Michael Arndt is handling the script duties. Let's hope he - and Kathleen Kennedy - insure that these types of things are done with a lighter hand. Leave the anvils to the Family Guys of the world, okay?

Onward, to SPOILERS!

Main annoyances, SPOILERY, under the cut.Collapse )

In positive news on things I saw Saturday, I did like the Doctor Who finale! My River feels. ;_;
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5/21/13 09:08 am - shunn - Meet Our Readers: Lawrence Santoro

In 2001, Lawrence Santoro's novella "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association. In 2002, his adaptation and audio production of Gene Wolfe's "The Tree Is My Hat," was also Stoker nominated.

Lawrence Santoro In 2003, his Stoker-recommended "Catching" received Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow's seventeenth annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology. In 2004, "So Many Tiny Mouths" was cited in the anthology's eighteenth edition. In the the twentieth, his novella "At Angels Sixteen," from the anthology A Dark and Deadly Valley, was similarly honored.

Larry's first novel, Just North of Nowhere, was published in 2007. A collection of his short fiction, Drink for the Thirst to Come, was published in December 2011. Before all that, Larry spent thirty years as a director, producer and actor in theater and television.

Since its inaugural show in January, 2012, Larry has been the host of the weekly horror podcast, Tales to Terrify, the sister show to the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa.

He lives in Chicago and is at work on two new novels, Griffon and the Sky Warriors and A Mississippi Traveler, or Sam Clemens Tries the Water. Stop by his blog, At Home in Bluffton.

Please join Larry and all our outstanding readers on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf at 7:30 pm. This 21-and-older event is free.


Crossposted from Tuesday Funk
 

5/21/13 02:00 pm - someposifeed - [Comic 5-21-13] Focus

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05212013.shtml

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5/20/13 07:46 pm - cnvarbiter - Review - Great Classic Science Fiction (from BBC Audio)

http://www.stevenhwilson.com/2013/05/20/review-great-classic-science-fiction-from-bbc-audio/
 

5/20/13 09:14 am - someposifeed - [Comic 5-20-13] Interview

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05202013.shtml

Comic and blog post.
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