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Now that I am a safe 6 days removed from this year's festivities, I feel my thoughts have collected themselves enough to ruminate on Fiesta Navidad 2003. For those not in the know, this past year my wife Andrea and I welcomed our first child -- Colin Edward -- into the world. As we looked ahead [...]

That's right! John O'Brien, the Editor-in-Chief of PulpLit, will be reading from Frustrated Young Men, his collection of short fiction, at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco on January 14th, 2004 at 7:30 PM. He will be joining forces with the No Media Kings, and will be whoring himself as local talent at a Perpetual Motion Roadshow [...]

That?s right, I?m back!!! That loud thud you?ve heard is PulpLit?s master manipulator, John, hitting the floor. Time to call in the search dogs and turn down the smoke signals ? the King of All Miscellany is back. My last Blog Entry was 9/02. Since then I?ve been scurrying around the country from spider hole to [...]

Really, it's an amazing thing. I was watching Return of the King, and thinking about how warlike they were back in the Middle Ages. What with big walls, big swords, etc. The thing is, I doubt that we're really all that different. Sure, we have centralized control over the means of violence. But I think it's [...]

Damn, I should have asked for more money. This review contains major movie spoilers. I first read The Lord of the Rings at the rather late age of fifteen. I'd heard of the books before; the title occupied a dim, misty part of my mind, and were associated with a sense of cultishness and even history. Their [...]