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My poem “Dessert” was published by Oysters & Chocolate, an erotic webzine. You can read it here.
-Kit

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Damn, they sure do sound noble, don’t they? “We can’t bail out the auto makers unless they gave us a plan.” Lovely. “They shouldn’t ask the tax payers to pay for their mistakes.” Uh huh. “Look at those executives flying to meet with us in private jets.” Ducky.
Am I [...]

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Here in the United States it is Thanksgiving today. If you celebrated, I hope you enjoyed it or are enjoying it as we speak.
What are you eating today, or what did you eat?
I’m away from Dreamcafé this week, visiting my mom, Siun, in Chicago. We’re having some friends of hers over, and and tonight we [...]

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Many years ago at Fourth Street, a bunch of us sat around for too many hours and came up with the following theory: From the perspective of society, the function of art* and the function of science are identical; the difference is that the final product of science is a theory, the final product of [...]

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Reesa’s mother makes kick-ASS lentil soup.
That is all.
–Steve

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I put this on the sidebar, but I thought I’d link to it here, as well, in case anyone felt inclined to talk about it.
Leon Trotsky on Culture and socialism.

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Sometimes I feel like the paranoid surrounded by the Eskimo family.  I want to cry out, “You’re all Inuit together!”

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And here we go.  I think this election expresses, above all, the hatred, the astonishing hatred, we all feel for George W. Bush.  And, to be sure, he’s earned it.
So now the question becomes: what happens with Obama in office and Democratic control of both houses when they continue to carry on the same policies [...]

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In response to our last business model post, Norgg asks an important question — why should an artist offer their own content for download on their lonely web page when they can be part of a much larger content distribution system like CDBaby (for musicians) or Lulu (for writers). This question is actually important not [...]

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Especially to Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for special award, non-professional (although: huh?) and to Ellen Datlow for the anthology Inferno.
And, out of courtesy to their sensibilities I will not now be gnashing my teeth and screaming about rigged elections because neither Will Shetterly nor Emma Bull won.  They would certainly not appreciate such a [...]

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Last night, Inversion Effect (a band which includes my friend Thomas Fang) played to a full house at Lufton Runner. Although I wasn’t able to make it in person, I enjoyed the photographs and sample song available on the Luf’s website.
Theo Drumsthemoon, part of the Lufton Collective which operates the venue, tells me they are [...]

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