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About Me

At the tender age of forty-two, I'm sure that I am well past the median age of myspace users. Does that make me sad? Does it make you mad? Don't be. Forty is the new thirty, remember? Hell at that rate I guess I just metaphorically moved out of my parents' basement, which is where most of you are probably reading this. So there.I'm currently the owner (along with my lovely spouse of nearly 20 years, Jenn McCallister) of a retail clothing store called Loose Lucy's. I also write fiction, and have completed three novels and about two dozen short stories; I recently won Pearl magazine's 2006 Short Story Competition, and will see first publication in the winter of 2007.I also currently write a column (5 Points Confidential) for a local alt weekly called Columbia CityPaper; my novel King's Highway will be published by Red Letter Press in June of 2007! So, it looks as though that makes me a writer, which is a longtime dream come true for me. UPDATE: My flash-fiction effort "Gravy Skin" will be published in the new, online journal Moonshine in December of 2007.In a previous life, I was a motion picture archivist at the University of South Carolina. For recreation, I used to tour around with the Grateful Dead, those avatars of psychedelia; I'm still recovering from the loss of Garcia these many years later, but the experiences I had (and have) thanks to his art saved me from some dark places. I owe everything I have to my wife and the Dead experience; without either of them I might not be writing this to you today.Besides my longtime wife and best friend, my immediate family also includes nine felines, all unique, all beloved: Katie Mae, Dupree, Woody, Penny Lane, Hannah, L'il Sadie, and the Fellas, three orange tabbys named Reuben, Arthur, and Oliver who are brothers. All of these pets are the cat's meow, pun definitely intended.My friends call me dmac. It must, I repeat, must be spelled with a lower case "d".

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Chris. I keep seeing these bumper stickers that say "Chris is the Answer", so I'm real keen to not only meet this cat, but also to find out the riddle to which only this enigmatic Chris seems to know the solution.Short of that, I'd be way into meeting my doppleganger, who I presume in this case is the yang to my yin.

My Blog

The blog is dead . . .

. . . long live the blog. Look for a dmac wordpress blog soon.
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:22:00 GMT

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher has been one of the more interesting filmmakers of the past decade, working within the studio system on megabudget, star-driven projects, though retaining what is certainly a high degree...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:09:00 GMT

Report

Been quiet because a)I've been in a funk, and b) have continued to write stuff. Felt unaccomplished until I sat down and went through this year's output:15 completed and polished short stories, includ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:17:00 GMT

The Dogs of Parson’s Hollow

That's right. A title change for the dog thriller. Long story short, this was the title of a book within the book from an earlier draft, finally realized how it better reflects both the setting, as we...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:08:00 GMT

2008 SCWW Conference

Returned yesterday from the SC Writer's Workshop conference in glorious and gloomy Myrtle Beach. The weather cleared just in time for me to go home, but as Elmore Leonard advises, never describe the w...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:35:00 GMT

"W." Review

W. (2008, Dir. Oliver Stone)Part pop psychology analysis, part simulacrum of the still-empowered George W. Bush administration, Oliver Stone's W. is an odd experience, coming as it does just before th...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:02:00 GMT

The Dead Have Risen From Their Comfortable Graves

I have seen Dead people.Monday, October 13, 2008: The first Dead show in four years, and for an unprecedented cause: The endorsement of a political candidate. I've written a 6000 word feature article ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Dog Monday

TDOMD, 3rd Draft, complete about 30 mins before my 5pm deadline yesterday. Sounds like my college days.But it wasn't rushed. I didn't have that much left to do from my notes to be able to call this a ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:26:00 GMT

David Foster Wallace

I haven't posted anything about DFW's suicide, which I found devastating. I freely admit that I couldn't finish Infinite Jest. Couldn't? Wouldn't. Something about its post-pomo tone and affectations d...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Done.

THE DOGS OF MACON DOWNS, draft 2, 352 pages, 93,000 words. In the can. What to do now?Keep revising. I'm ahead of schedule (this draft was due on Sunday 9/29), so I can probably back up the files and ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:19:00 GMT