It’s the end of 2010, the iPad is taking off and my friend Justin McLachlan has launched an electronic publishing house and, so, I thought it would be cool to publish a mini-collection of my short fiction as an ebook. It’s three stories (less than 4,000 words altogether) that I’ve always wanted to see collected [...]
Back in another life, I was living in the UK, where I was up to my upper lip in spoken word. Mostly I was involved in organizing “Live Lit” nights, though I did regularly read some original prose writing. At one point, I was invited to fill in for performance art legend Ed Barton on [...]
Well, here’s some good news: My feature from last Halloween, “Things to Do in Santa Fe When You’re Undead” is a finalist in the “Innovation/Format Buster” category of the annual Association of Alternative Newsweekly competition. To be fair, I only wrote the text and coordinated certain aspects of the project, which was a community effort [...]
I’ve resisted reading Edward Abbey all my life, excusing myself from the required southwestern reading with the assumption that, as a native Arizonan, it would all be redundant. Environmentalism is baked into my chromosomes. I needed a book to read and I wanted a sure thing: a book that would be a fun, light-ish read [...]
Expose & Conquer Muckraker’s Guide lets the light shine. Sunday marks the beginning of Sunshine Week, seven-days of awareness of open-government and public-relation issues. And so, we felt it was time to develop MuckrakersGuide.com V2.0 on its own WordPress site. It took me a little more than a week to design and update. I hope [...]
I just burned through Warren Ellis’s new detective novel Crooked Little Vein. Ellis wrote the comic series Transmetropolitan, the leaves of which are the center pieces of my office wall art. Vein‘s his great crossover into the printed, unillustrated word, and it’s like whiskey with coffee: hot and dark and deviant and yet, heart-warming. It’s [...]
(this is in Manchester, by the way. i’ll be there, performing. and i designed this flyer.)
Howdy. Dave Maass here.