Don D’Ammassa: "OTHER GODS" Not Entirely Full of Bilgewater" |
Well, the above can be inferred, given Don D'Ammassa's new review of Other Gods at his Critical Mass Web site. D'Ammassa writes, "Other Gods is a uniformly good collection with a few stories that stan...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:09:00 PST |
Hot Parking and Grabbing |
Yeah, it didn't occur to me until some time after logging a number of geocaches last night that my phrasing might not have been the world's most prudent. Spent several hours caching in High Point with...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:26:00 PST |
Help! Jack Haringa Must Die! |
Lots of things happening/coming out all of a sudden. Help, the anthology to benefit Preditors & Editors in the lawsuit against them by PublishAmerica, et. al., which features my story, "Festival o...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:52:00 PST |
CEMETERY DANCE 59 is Loose |
Cemetery Dance 59 is finally on its way, featuring my story, "The Gaki." The issue's cover art looks mighty fun. Good company, too, except for maybe that Vernon chap from Nova Scotia. Also just receiv...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:00:00 PST |
Theres Nothing Obsessive-Compulsive About It At All |
It's good to have wacky neighbors. Last night about 10:00 pm, my friend Paul calls up and asks if I want to go geocaching. I say yeah, so we head out to Lake Townsend Trail, which is pretty close by, ...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Fri, 23 May 2008 09:31:00 PST |
So Now I Fit Into My Oldest Jeans... |
...without busting them at the seams. (The fact that most of the seams are already busted does not enter into this, thank you very much.) All this recent exercise is at least paying off in a few littl...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:47:00 PST |
Where the Sun Dont Shine |
You haven't seen Greensboro, the town where I live, until you've seen it from underground.Not that there's a lot to see in the pitch darkness beneath the roads, in a concrete-walled tunnel, with four ...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:02:00 PST |
Orpheus With a Heart |
Though rife with many of the trappings of the classic horror tale, Kim Paffenroth's novelette, Orpheus and the Pearl (Magus Press, 2008), isn't what I would call "horror" at all. With thematic element...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:25:00 PST |
Shorter of Breath and One Day Closer to Death |
Friday was my 49th birthday, but I'm actually breathing pretty well (I seem to have successfully stopped smoking, but for a handful of cigarettes here and there since January). Since Friday, I've bare...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:16:00 PST |
FTF! TN, LN, SL. TFTC!* |
Damn. I'm bone tired from the past few weeks of regular physical exertion. Last year at this time, when I was this tired, it was usually from being stressed out.No, this is a great kind of tired. I've...
Posted by Mark Rainey on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:17:00 PST |
