RECLAIMED ROOM

RECLAIMED ROOM - Solis @wearewildewood will be featured alongside Lady Saphire at The Reclaimed Room @ReclaimedRoom in San Francisco on Amador St. Opening night reception February 6 at 6 PM. The show runs through mid-March. A short film by Soumyaa Behrens will be featured as part of the process. These still pics were snapped informally during the preparations for the documentary. This is a new gallery with a focus on up-cycled art assemblage from re-purposed materials. Go green!

http://reclaimedroom.com/

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THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF NOVEL WRITING

The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing: Everything You Need To Know About Creating & Selling Your Work by Writer's Digest Books
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF NOVEL WRITING - This book does achieve a lot--in terms of providing advice from established authors--but any aspect that rises to the level ‘complete’ stops there. In The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing from Writer’s Digest, the topics covered pertain to the craft and business of writing, followed up by select interviews. While there is valuable information contained therein, the overall effect is a bit of a hodgepodge, because it’s not really a how-to book, as the title would have you believe. Think of it in terms of an anthology of author viewpoints, given many points of view, each one being vastly different. I don’t really find any of it systematic or method based. There are certainly gems here however, the title is misleading, the scope is overly ambitious.


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In the Reign of Harad IV by Steven Millhauser.mp3

In the Reign of Harad IV by Steven Millhauser.mp3

COMING SOON! Midwinter by Chad Schimke in PsychoPomp Christmas Issue!

Bansky XMAS

MEXICAN MUSEUM

MEXICAN MUSEUM - This post is a snippet of a longer article take from the Chronicle, see below for the link to the full article. San Francisco’s Mexican Museum is currently located at Fort Mason Center. A new building is in the planning stages, to be located in Yerba Buena, near the SFMOMA and the Jewish Museum. Construction on the multi-million project will begin as soon as late 2014. The collection contains pre-conquest, colonial, folk, Mexican/ Chicano as well as contemporary art. The picture depicts the proposed plan for the new building.

http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Mexican-Museum-s-new-home-closer-to-reality-4742302.php

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BANKSY– These pics represent outdoor paintings by Banksy in San Francisco around the time his 2010 movie came out. Enjoy!

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ABLE, BAKER, CHARLIE, DOG SHORT STORY REVIEW

ABLE, BAKER, CHARLIE, DOG  SHORT STORY REVIEW - This short story is part of a larger work by the author entitled Sweet Talk. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker numerous times over a twenty year period. I haven’t read any of the other stories, so this review only pertains to: Able, Barker, Charlie, Dog by Stephanie Vaughn. The story is spare and haunting, centering on the first person narrator’s perceptions of her father, as they changed over time. The title is derived from a trick to memorize the alphabet, that she learned at age twelve years, taught to her by her father, used by the military to keep the B’s separate from the V’s. Throughout the story, he (the father) teaches life lessons, he is a good man, while at the same time, that he is deeply flawed, as a human being. Thematically, this is Vaughn’s moral of the story: even at our best, we’re still capable of our worst. 

Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog by Stephanie Vaughn pic

GRAMMAR GRABBER

Grammatically Correct by Anne Stilman 

THIS FINER SHADOW

This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

THIS FINER SHADOW – It’s an unusual title, often included in the cannon of gay lesbian novels as a definitive pulp classic, by texts such as Truly Pulp and Queer Pulp. Refer to my Goodreads bookshelf for further information on these non-fiction texts. The forward explicitly states that McIntosh was not a homosexual. Although that is debatable, he was frustrated by multiple rejections from agents/ publishers, suffering years of revisions when he committed suicide, in the midst of a full-blow mental breakdown. After he met his death, by plunging from the top of his apartment building, his wife posthumously published the novel. Similarly to another book that I’m reading right now (The Third Sex by Artemis Smith), This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh draws upon the Freudian/ psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality as ‘inversion’, which was conventional wisdom in the 30’s. The novels (Finer Shadow and Third Sex) draw striking parallels in terms of setting (Manhattan near Washington Square), gender roles, labels: butch/ queen/ femme/ macho/ nelly and explores turmoil these characters faced. In many ways, both books describe a common experience, which feels familiar. In Finer Shadow, the protagonist is a sailor who finds himself in a big city full of confusing possibilities. While it is not a book I would normally read, I appreciate the experience. I will always wonder … what it must have been like ‘in the life’ before Stonewall?

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Unexpected featuring To Wake the Dead circa 1973

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Unexpected To Wake the Dead 73

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EIGHTIES COMIC BOOKS - I write horror. While I love aliens, vampires and zombies, much of my horror steers in the trajectory of fantasy. For example ‘Weirder’ and my upcoming new release ‘Spirits’. Since 80’s comic books are huge inspirations for me, I thought I would share some favorites from my own personal collection of vintage 70’s and early 80’s comic books. Enjoy!