20
June
2008
spirit-companioncom-receives-positive-review
This is exciting news! The site has just received its first review, and it’s a positive one! We’ve been tagged as “Extraordinary” and “Rare,” as well. Very cool! It’s not a review I requested (at least not that I can remember), so that makes it extra special. The review can be found at The Blog [...]

15
May
2008
website-review-albernsteincom
A few items of intriguing synchronicity have occurred, which I think deserve bringing up to my favorite blog readers: you folks. 1) I am editing a new book for Immanion Press, and it’s on modern vampires and vampirism. I don’t want to give away anything in advance without checking with my boss and the author, [...]

14
May
2008
los-angeles-city-of-the-soulsuckers
Here there be random bitching about celebrity. Annie Leibovitz is a world-renowned photographer who was créme de la créme when I first started reading Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-70s. Who the hell are the Moral Majority to criticize a goddess such as she? Why in the hell should she apologize? Okay, wait, let me back [...]

3
May
2008
since-i-needed-more-iron-in-my-diet
On impulse, my daughter and I bought tickets to Iron Man, a movie I intended to see but not right that minute. It was friggin’ amazing. Phenomenal. I loved it. Okay, so I’m an easy sell when it comes to comic book superhero movies and many flawed blockbusters. I’ll even admit to having a soft [...]

16
April
2008
wtf-is-the-blog-awards-challenge
There’s a new site and blogging contest called “Blog Awards Challenge,” based on the internet-age-old practice of supplying writing prompts, or challenges, for community-wide use. On LiveJournal, there are several communities that do this, particularly those given over to “muses.’ Muses are typically roleplay characters modeled after characters from books, movies, and television shows. The [...]