2010 March | Dead Love

Amor Oscuro...

Is Spanish the language of darkest love or is it French? Today I vote for Spanish. And to prove my point: a little bit of Francisco X. Alarcón’s DE AMOR OSCURO (Of Dark Love)—sonnets in the Neruda tradition. Alarcón writes in Spanish (this poem translated in to English by...

Dead Love Lovers...

It’s unusual … but apparently some publishers and booksellers LOVE zombies. Bless them. Stone Bridge Press and Book Passage are making it easy to pre-order DEAD LOVE. All you have to do is hit the Stone Bridge link here or in the banner. Or, you can go directly to Book...

4. Pachinko Palace (2)...

My new teacher, my sensei, watched me dance—ballet, butoh, modern jazz. It was exhilarating. I did my best. He said, “You have a talent I have not seen for a very long time.” Then he bowed. “I have a part in my new ballet. You will dance for me?” he asked gently. “I...

Tattoo 2...

“Large brown velvet moths settled upon each of her breasts. An orchid opened on one shoulder, a striped gecko displayed the inside of its mouth on the other. South Sea islands showed up on her belly and disappeared into the shaved split between her legs. A sea serpent slid down...

Strange Devices...

Ink and skin, what a combo. It’s been cool since the days of five-thousand-year-old ötzi the ice man. They found his frozen body on a mountain between Austria and Italy back in 1991. He had 57 tattoos! Even the word is tasty: Tatau in Polynesian; in Tahitian, tatu. Tattoo. There’s...

Zombie Casting Call...

So you want to be a zombie? Special FX wizard Ed Martinez is looking for zombies for a music video filming Sunday, March 21st. He’s desperate, so humans may apply. He’ll make it work. That’s his job! The shoot is in Los Gatos near San Jose. If you’re interested,...

All Day Anime...

Erin Orison, zombie press. That’s right, I’m reporting from WonderCon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 2-4, 2010. It’s a giant sci-fi/fantasy/comics prowl. Major comic publishers like DC Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, and Oni Press, will be there. Our...

Clapping Mohawks...

When it’s this crazy, it just has to be shared. Don’t let the fact that it’s in Japanese stop you. Some things transcend language—like this ad for Mandom Gatsby Moving Rubber Spiky Edge to keep your mohawk stiff. Yeah, love that Gatsby wax. That’s it for...

Butchering Baudelaire...

Clément loves Baudelaire and wrestled his translation of “Lethe” into the daily slice. A collection of Baudelaire’s poems, Les Fleurs du mal, was first published in 1857 by the poet’s friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis. It created a sensation. Eleven hundred copies...

High Voltage Voltaire...

Out, out damned hypocrisy! Trust us, every supernatural being loves Voltaire. No, not the dead satirist … the ultra-dark and daring artist-musician. Are you in the 21st Century? Check out his music. It says it all. Folk, goth, darkwave, dark cabaret, new wave, whatever …...