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Matthew Sanborn Smith

Seize the day after tomorrow!

About Me


Find My Stuff:

Better Than Anything in the Barnes and Noble anthology, Between the Leaves , or read it here on my site.

A Tale of New Hope City in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction No.4 (sadly, it's out of print). But wait! You can read it right here on my site

Mr. Mellon Puts on his Fingers in Antipodean SF No.76

To What it May Concern in Antipodean SF No.90

Passions in Orbit, a Stirring in the Pants in Antipodean SF No.105

Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range at chizine.com

Marissa, Marissa in Albedo One #33

The Keys to the Yellow Kingdom in Challenging Destiny #25

My blog, eerily similar to the one here: The One-Thousand
Background courtesy http://www.grsites.com

My Interests

Writing, wild ideas, comics.

I'd like to meet:

Darth Pudd'nhead.

Music:

Bjork, Rush, Black Sabbath, Weezer, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cibo Matto, Frou Frou, Louis Prima, Pennywise, Placebo, Astrud Gilberto, Maria Mena, Sum 41, Annie Lennox, Nerf Herder, Authority Zero, Portishead, The Decemberists, Staind, Juno Reactor, Flight of the Conchords, Sade, B-52s

Movies:

Seven Samurai, Blade Runner, Waking Life, Strange Days, Lord of the Rings, Better Off Dead, Chicken Run, Conan the Barbarian (That's right, I said it)

Television:

The Simpsons; Futurama; The Venture Brothers; Mythbusters; FLCL; I, Claudius; Strangers With Candy; Rome; Max Headroom; Lovejoy

Books:

Dune; Neuromancer; King Rat; Wild Seed; Lord of the Flies; Cannery Row; Watchmen; Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol; Anything by Robert E. Howard; all of Julian May's Pliocene, Intervention, and Galactic Milieu novels; Gates of Fire.

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Heroes:

Winston Churchill, George Orwell, Carl Sagan, Ani DiFranco, Ralph Nader, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury

My Blog

Thank You For Not Hitting Me With A Bus

Thank You For Not Hitting Me With A BusI made it! Loyal readers of this blog may recall that one year ago I wrote a fearful post on the occasion of my Thirty-Eighth birthday, begging one and all not t...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:34:00 PST

Hoodwinked

HoodwinkedWhen Hoodwinked came out in the theaters, I wanted nothing to do with it, though the other family members went to see it and enjoyed it. I generally hate kids movies and the ads just looked ...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST

Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan CoultonI’ve heard some of Jonathan Coulton’s music on the Escape Pod podcast over the past however long and he’s finally reached critical mass in my mind so today I had to l...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:32:00 PST

Another One Under My Widening Belt

Another One Under My Widening BeltI finished and sent out story number 66, Conservation of Energy.
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:35:00 PST

Shower County

SHOWER COUNTYBy Matthew Sanborn SmithIt never rained out here anymore.  Crops died, cattle followed.  There were no clouds to seed and a rainmaker had run off with a nice chunk of the county...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST

Fix-up

I just did a little fix-up over at my regular blog, The One-Thousand.  Check it out here.  The One-Thousand is very similar to this blog, same posts for the most part.  I just posted li...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:13:00 PST

Phatterism

Phatterism I just found this guy’s pe...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:05:00 PST

My Woman Done Left Me

My Woman Done Left Me My wife, daughter and...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:54:00 PST

(Friday)

(Friday) I didn’t finish a story toda...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:48:00 PST

Comic Book Villains

Comic Book Villains I saw the film Comic Bo...
Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:23:00 PST