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This Week In History: Many People Fucked |
| There are a whole mess of folks celebrating their birthdays this week.Which is nothing new.Except I actually like some of them.Which is. Audio Addict and Truth Seeker Dani Cutler is a year older, wiser, and all around sexier.The woman conducts a mean interview, performs a meaner narration, and her name is just cool.I always want to call her Agent Dani Cutler.As in, "Agent Cutler, proceed with Plan Alpha.All rioters must be eliminated."Or, "Agent Cutler, do you copy?Take command.Seize Richards and proceed as ordered!"*He's Earl Newton.He's the executive producer, and creator, of Stranger Things.Dunuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh . . .bowwwwwww-wooooo . . .**Earl is my artistic brother from another mother.In fact, back when I was rocking a ponytail we probably could've passed for brothers.Soon we'll both be sliding up into Balticon 42 as guests where Earl and his ST crew will stage a HUGE event called The Singularity.Because afterwards nothing will be the same.I'll be involved, as will the new episode of Stranger Things I wrote.There will prizes, several big announcements, and Polynesian fire dancers.***This week we're also celebrating/decrying the extraction of Mad Mark Rainey, alias Stephen Mark Rainey, alias Grizzly Adams' sexier brother. |
| There will prizes, several big announcements, and Polynesian fire dancers.***This week we're also celebrating/decrying the extraction of Mad Mark Rainey, alias Stephen Mark Rainey, alias Grizzly Adams' sexier brother.Rainey is, of course, a veteran horror author who I respect deeply, and not just because I'm trying to gain access to the Nazi gold that is no doubt hidden in his beard.The newest offering in his decades long career that has spanned many truly original and amazing novels is the forthcoming Other Gods (I will begrudgingly admit this is a pimp title), a collection of short stories that is guaranteed to be almost as good as mine.Reserve your copy today.Rainey is nefarious.He works hard at it.Fellow playa, founder of Mo*Con (which I WILL make it to one of these days), horror's Sinister Minister.He's Maurice Broaddus and he dresses much better than you do.I dig Mr. Broaddus because he's got even more projects going on than me, which ain't easy, and because he walks a fine line between spirituality and genre fiction.Which also aint easy.And he does it with extreme style.Finally, the one, the only, the formerly mutton-chopped Douglas F. Warrick.D-War is the choice of a new generation.He is one of the most talented under twenty-five's in all the land, and an author that moves and entertains me more than a stripper schooled in classical dance.I consider him a brother, a contemporary, and the only candidate to be my lieutenant at Thunder Road.Go Grease Lightning.Happy birthday, my friends.The world is a far finer place because you are all in it.**** And my gift to you?Well, I just pimped you and your shit, didn't I?* Reference to the 1987 Schwarzenegger sci-fi/actioner The Running Man** Even lamer reference to Earl's video update intros and the amazing strains of the Stranger Things theme by Zoe Keating*** Polynesian fire dancers not scheduled to appear.**** Except for Rainey. |
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