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Maurice

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About Me

I'm about the pursuit of Truth - be it through Science, Art, or Religion. All Truth is God's Truth.I am the comic book reviews editor, as well as a Senior Reviewer, for Hollywood Jesus .I am an editor for the Gila Queen Guide to Markets .I am a columnist for Intake Weekly and a blogger for Blogging in Black .And I'm the facilitator for the Dwelling Place faith community .I also write scary stories.Visit the Sinister Minister at www.MauriceBroaddus.com


Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Cemetary

My Interests

comic books, alan moore, frank miller, neil gaiman, peter david, grant morrison, christopher priest, movies, hollywood jesus, monty python, christianity, theology, emergent church, postmodernism, brian mclaren, donald miller, television, pop culture

I'd like to meet:

Jesus Christ. Malcolm X. Alexander the Great. In that order. Everyone else ought to at least be interesting.

Music:

public enemy, a tribe called quest, de la soul, marvin gaye, james brown, parliament, funkadelic, stevie wonder, lauryn hill, john lee hooker, miles davis, mahalia jackson, 70s soul music

Movies:

Do the Right Thing, Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles, L.A. Confidential, Memento, Usual Suspects

Television:

The Wire, Black Adder, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, I Claudius, Deadwood, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, The Prisoner, The Shield, Rome

Books:

A New Kind of Christian (and all things Brian McLaren), The Gift (my favorite fantasy novel), American Gods/Sandman (all things Neil Gaiman), Lords of Light, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Blue Like Jazz, Watchmen (all things Alan Moore), The Haunting of Hill House, NT Wright, GK Chesterton, CS Lewis, Douglas Adams, Mike Yaconelli, George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard, Thomas Wolfe, Joseph Campbell, Gary Braunbeck, Tom Piccirilli, and Brian Keene. And occasionally that King guy that writes horror.

Heroes:

Spike Lee, Malcolm X

My Blog

Legends of the Mountain State 2 and Apex Books

Legends of the Mountain State 2 will be out in September 2008. It will be a trade paperback from Woodland Press. The official lineup for this one has been released. Mark JusticeJonathan MaberryBob Fre...
Posted by Maurice on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:49:00 PST

There are worse fates than being unpublished

It frustrates me to see people I know, people who can write, publish so poorly.  This isn't another rant directed at those folks still butthurt over my last rant about self-publishing.  Ther...
Posted by Maurice on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

Kids Art Theology

There are a couple of things my friends have learned about me.  One, I tend to pick up stuff that  I run across (I don't care that you might have thrown it away) and two, I'm a bit of a pack...
Posted by Maurice on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:27:00 PST

Jesus Christ is Not a Weapon ... Unless its a +4 Christ of Ogre-Slaying

.. -->[if !supportEmptyParas]-->.. -->[endif]-->And now, a random gmail chat rant brought to you courtesy of John C. Hay:  .. -->[if !supportEmptyParas]-->   John: So - is there a parallel b...
Posted by Maurice on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:27:00 PST

My Stuff - On George Carlin

I collect a lot of stuff.  I've cut back since I got married, mostly because my wife is not a fan of my stuff and (especially after a couple of moves) keeps most of my stuff (read:  the 10,0...
Posted by Maurice on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:14:00 PST

Blog Comments

Blog CommentsI'm still getting caught up on life AMC (After Mo*Con).  And I've been having computer issues. Some of you have noticed that I turned the comments back on my blogger site.  My o...
Posted by Maurice on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:11:00 PST

Mo*Con III.2: God Hates Matt, but Jesus Loves Kelli

Matt Cardin is cursed.  Coming and going, apparently the wrath of God follows.  First Mapquest directs him to an airport that doesn't exist causing him to miss his flight to Mo*Con III. ...
Posted by Maurice on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:32:00 PST

Mo*Con III - A Recap of Sorts

Mo*Con III was a success.  It's taken me a couple of days to recover from the con (much better than the two weeks I was down after last year's Mo*Con).  I feel like I should still be in an i...
Posted by Maurice on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:03:00 PST

Mo*Con III: The Intersection of Spirituality, Art, and Gender* (Updated 5/19/2008)

Hosted by The Dwelling Place and the Indiana Horror Writers.Church is a communal expression of faith, to pursue spiritual formation to be the kind of people God wants us to be. To be a safe place to a...
Posted by Maurice on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:35:00 PST

MB: Marketing Genius

I've been trying to think of ways to market my upcoming novella, Orgy of Souls.  I thought about starting a book group.  Apparently, however, my publisher thought the North American Maurice ...
Posted by Maurice on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:30:00 PST