Today I decided to revive my membership at Zoetrope.com, Francis Ford Coppola’s website with its many subdivided writing communities and affiliated Coppola business like movies and restaurants and the winery. Since I am investing more hours in this prose fiction
Dirk & Brenda in: An Epic and Tragic Romance
Brenda ups the stakes:
Dear Larry Flynt,
These TSA procedures get changed before Christmas if you offer one of your million-dollar bounties for a leaked nude body scan of a member of Congress. That is, assuming they go through security like us serfs. Expand it to staffers
For Those About to Rock…
This afternoon I watched Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which friends have been recommending for a year. For anyone with any creative ambitions, this is either one of the most galvanizing, inspiring stories you can see, or the horror that
Negotiation
A civilized conversation between management and labor, starring Dirk & Brenda:
In case it is of interest to you…
I actually have finished a new Dirk & Brenda, but Xtranormal must hate their adventures because every step of the way has been a fight with freezing browsers, previews that refuse to actually load, and a final rendering that is
Transform!
Brenda is not herself today:
Link!
The newest issue of the literary quarterly Blood Lotus has just been published, and includes my short story The Culling of the Beige. Peep the issue here, which also includes poems, and pretty pictures of food.
Dirk Solves a Mystery
I could spend money and have many more sets and characters available to me, but I’m still amusing myself just fine this way.
So what the hell was that about?
For those who don’t know, Xtranormal is a do-it-yourself cartoon-making platform for people who cannot draw or animate and do not have money. Their downloadable software allows for some more elaborate effects, but you can basically type a line of