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Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author

all you have is how you live

About Me

Everything I do is an experiment.
walk around in my head

My Interests

k fender guitars animal rights art road trips veganism green tea exceptional tattoos thai food pale ale cycling halloween all animals BIZARRO WRITERS unlearning hoodies chucks birkis dreads lava lamps hemp jewelry trees being barefoot painting scribbling coloring playing having an overdue happy childhood parks washington state mountains forests deserts dreaming solitude passion being self taught POSITIVITY nature individualism philosophy sleeping freedom loyalty devotion human rights never ever acting my age

I'd like to meet:

Joan of Arc, Ayn Rand, Calamity Jane, Amelia Earhart, Anne Bonny, Malcolm X

Music:

lots of punk metal motown reggae funk Misfits Dead Kennedys RHCP Bob Marley Bouncing Souls Nirvana Gorilla Biscuits Lacuna Coil Shadows Fall The Smiths Minor Threat Midnite Earth Crisis Germs Black Flag Flaming lips Unearth Melvins Radiohead Gather Beatles Doors Scratch Acid Husker Du Patti Smith All That Remains Poison the Well Crass Velvet Underground Snow Patrol Sonic Youth Bauhaus Pixies AFI Weezer Deftones Incubus 36 crazyfists smashing pumpkins team sleep glassjaw foo fighters

Movies:

Death Proof Nightmare Before Christmas The Mummy Juno Cloverfield Repo Man Dead Alive Still Breathing Signs all johnny depp movies Night of the Living Dead Fight Club Contact Gods and Monsters Aliens Trainspotting Ghost World Natural Born Killers Pirates of the Caribbean Pulp Fiction Rebel Without a Cause Donnie Darko Bringing Up Baby A Clockwork Orange American History X Mulva Zombie Ass Kicker Platoon Taxi Driver Edward Scissorhands Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Blow The Doors Dawn of the Dead The Return of the Living Dead The Exorcist The Philadelphia Story Metropolis Kill Bill True Romance The Shawshank Redemption Seven Texas Chainsaw Massacre A Nightmare on Elm Street Empire Records Fargo Dazed and Confused Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Big Lebowski Death to Smoochy 11 14 Crash Quills Basquiat Seven Years in Tibet Pollock Anything by M Night yep even Lady in the Water

Television:

will suck your soul dry

Books:

Franz Kafka Burroughs Kerouac Kathy Acker Kurt Vonnegut Tom Robbins Chuck Palahniuk China Mieville Jonathan Carroll Lewis Carroll Jim Carroll D Harlan Wilson Carlton Mellick III Neil Stephenson Michael Chabon William Gibson Rimbaud Shelley Haruki Murakami Richard Grant Gabriel Garcia Marquez Charles de Lint Brian Keene Tom Piccirilli Ginsberg Corso Ferlingetti Snyder Lovecraft PK Dick Hunter S Thompson Don Delillo Gore Vidal Pynchon Asimov Ayn Rand Bradbury Faulkner Hemingway Fitzgerald Frank Herbert Heinlein Arthur C Clark Camus Poe Dahl Kierkegaard Henry Miller Whitman Nietzsche Orwell Yeats Kesey Dorothy Parker Anne Sexton Plath

Heroes:

Anyone fearlessly pursuing their own personal legend.

My Blog

SKULL CATHEDRAL by Tim Waggoner

Tim Waggoner is an awesome writer and you would be super smart to pick up a copy of his bizarro chapbook Skull Cathedral, coming soon from Squid Salad Press. Here is the link: SKULL CATHEDRAL by Tim W...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Sat, 31 May 2008 10:23:00 PST

Bits of the Dead

I'm very happy to announce a new anthology my work will be appearing in this summer. It's called BITS OF THE DEAD, published by Coscom Entertainment. Make sure you check it out! Lots of HUGE names in ...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:54:00 PST

Horror Library Vol. 3 TOC

In case anyone hasn't seen the full toc for the next Horror Library, I thought I'd post it. Plus, looking at it makes me smile. And smile and smile and smile...So, here it is:"The Station" by Bentley ...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:15:00 PST

OLD ABSOLUTELY DOESN’T MEAN RIGHT

OLD ABSOLUTELY DOESN'T MEAN RIGHT(Unknown)I don't care how old your tradition is,or how old your belief is, or how socially accepted it is.Old absolutely doesn't mean right.It's not cool to eat a tige...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST

get ready for "Clover"

I'm very happy to announce that my short story "Clover" has been selected to appear in The Horror Library Volume 3. You can check out the creepy-ass cover in the slide show on the main page. This anth...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:14:00 PST

this is beyond awesome

Pay attention, people!! The man speaks the truth!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:50:00 PST

this is cool

The great and mighty Nick (Yak) Cato was kind enough to read a little from my novella Wall of Kiss on his awesome television network whosey whatsey whatever it’s called show. They also read from...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:57:00 PST

The Beast Within

I am thrilled to announce that my short story "Crop Frogs" has made the final cut into the much anticipated anthology The Beast Within, coming soon from Graveside Tales. This book has a boatload of gr...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:25:00 PST

New Interview!

AHHH!! I'm on a sugar high!!But anyway, yes, there is new interview with me out in the world these days. Go to www.novellopublishers.com for ordering info and find out my deepest, darkest, most vile, ...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

come hang out!

On March 27th thru March 30th I'll be attending the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'll most likely be hanging out at the Eraserhead Press table during the day (I'll be the one who l...
Posted by Gina Ranalli -- Bizarro Author on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:40:00 PST