links for 2008-08-28

Garret van Swearingen An ancestor of mine whose portrait has survived. (He hella looks like me.) Interesting to know this guy's DNA is somewhere in my genetic makeup. (tags: genealogy history family) Exclusive Excerpt: Stephen Davis’s ‘Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses’ — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York […]

I'm In Hell

A couple of clients not paying me, so I’m broke. Other clients flaking on promised work, so I haven’t got any more coming in immediately. Dude not moving out of the apartment I was supposed to move into, and not giving a timetable for doing so, so I’m actually literally homeless. I’m couch surfing at […]

links for 2008-08-20

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter. (tags: humor lovecraft) The Quietus | Features | Rapper Immortal Technique Swaps The Mean Streats Of Harlem For Afghanistan Nice! Tech was one of the artists I pursued for Mperia back in the day. One of the most brilliant MCs out […]

Playing it by ear: a short interview with Jack Womack

Jack Womack is one of speculative fiction’s secret treasures. His 1995 novel Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is one of the most remarkable and emotionally affecting works I’ve ever read and the seed of my thinking about the whole Grim Meathook Future thing.It’s not science fiction, per se; it’s the story of how American civilization […]