The best part of my August: I finished the first draft of my new fantasy novel! I'm still coming back down to earth, very reluctantly, after spending the summer halfway in an altered state of intense creativity and inspiration I had never felt before, the kind where you could tell…
Many, many years ago, Broken Pencil published a short story of mine. It was so long ago that I no longer remember the story's name. I was a new zinester then, and so appearing in Broken Pencil was a dream. So it felt very special to see The Quiet is Loud…
Recently, I heard Jeanne Dielman described as "three and a half hours of a woman in her apartment going about her daily life. I watched it once in college when I was really depressed." I decided to watch it based on this description alone. A couple of the IMDB tags…
