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Category: shenanigans
Romancing the Gothic!
It’s that Kit Marlowe AKA me appearing live and online at Romancing the Gothic on February 2nd! Dig that cool retro vintage-style cover by Stephanie Johnson! Who also did the portrait of the author. Is there no end to her talents? I hope not! We have many plans for the future. Buy the novel direct…
Claverack Library 18 Nov 23
Like local history — weird history — old bones, strange poetry and the possibility of cryptids? Come hear me talk about the CLAVERACK GIANT and get yourself a free sticker (and maybe a few other goodies). There’ll be snacks. Also our library is awesome! Saturday November 18th 10am Claverack Free Library 9 Route 9HClaverack, NY…
The Motive & The Cue
I’ve been neglectful; as I get to the end of the seemingly endless to-do list for the summer — derailed by illness and other unexpected things — I am catching up on things I forgot to write up. I saw this play at the National Theatre back in May when I was traipsing around London….
What I’ve Been Reading
I had a bunch of things on the go; end of summer, last orgy of ‘fun’ reading before the semester starts and reading tends to focus on what lies ahead both in teaching and other work. Good thing I have cut back on conferences — just one this fall — but the semester is off…
Stepping Out of History
The new exhibition at CREATE Gallery opens this weekend celebrating Women’s History Month and including a broad variety of women and women-identifying artists and work in every format and medium. I have two pieces in it! A digital photo ‘She Dances’ — an impressionistic portrait of the moon — and my short film ‘A Fire…
The Tay Whale
One of the new additions to the city by the Tay while I was away is the beautiful installation The Tay Whale by Lee Simmons, who not only created a beautiful sculpture but chronicled its journey from his workshop to Dundee on his IG account (and you can see a video putting all the pieces…
Surreal Noir: 12 Oct 22
Tonight’s episode was inspired by the chaos of life, returning to international travel in a way I’ve not done for some time, other than a too brief visit home to Dundee (back soon). Trying to clear my phone so I could add hundreds more photos, as I knew I would I also moved a bunch…
Hard-Boiled Witch: FREE!
For the season that’s in it (and hopes renewed of creating a new episode) the original HARD-BOILED WITCH will be FREE October 3-5. Pop on over to the Amazon page to grab a copy (click the picture above). See where it all got started! Don’t like Amazon? Get a PDF copy direct by paying what price…
Surreal Noir: 14 Sep 22
Tonight’s episode was inspired by seeing Loving Highsmith, so I chose to read at random from Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and journals. Her cahiers (as she always called them) came in two flavours: daily recaps of what she had done and where she had gone and how she felt about it all, and in the more…