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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Mexico does not sound sweet

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

It’s been 100 years since the first international effort to prohibit the drug trade. And in response to the chaos and murder rolling across Mexico, The Economist decided to mark the anniversary by calling, again, for an end to drug prohibition:   In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in [...]

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Shane Hoversten

Thursday, March 5, 2009

After years of ambivalence about how recognizeable I wanted to be online, it’s kind of cool that a Google search on “Shane Hoversten” comes up with LSH as the top hit. And that’s without using either of the two aces up my sleeve. So ha! all you fake Shane Hoverstens. (I won’t even check to [...]

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Post office review

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

This was gonna go up on Brain Harvest until the most vocal readership revealed itself to possess all the sophistication of a posse of sulky thirteen year old boys dressed in suits and dragged to church. Now that their tongues have been cut out the fucktards will disperse to the next amusement, and we can [...]

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More Wallace

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

A nice article in the New Yorker on Wallace, his unfinished work, and a more detailed look at the fucked-up man and his artistic vision. This really resonated with me: The sadness over Wallace’s death was also connected to a feeling that, for all his outpouring of words, he died with his work incomplete. Wallace, [...]

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Brain Harvest is alive!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Finally a bit of good news: after a shitload of behind-the-scenes effort,Brain Harvest launches today. Brain Harvest is an online speculative fiction magazine run by Clarion West superstars Eden Robins, Caren Gussoff, and myself, with an emphasis on the short-short: fiction between 100 and 750 words. As editors of Brain Harvest, we want to publish [...]

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