Dead Love: Dead and Lov...

God, I love Tom Waits. That’s why I’m treating you to one of my favorite Waits compositions this Sunday morning. Dead and Lovely—he could be singing about me! I will hum this tune all morning. It’s particularly alluring when matched with nostalgic images of Cuba from...

14. Three-days-dead (3)

“Oh,” stammered my lame-brained escort, “Someone broken in,” stating what he thought was the obvious. If he’d been more observant, he’d have noticed that though the place had been ransacked, there were no signs of forced entry. The vandals, whoever they were, had let themselves in . . ....

Dead Love: Spanish Zomb...

Dead Love is now available in Spanish from Editiones B! Mi nombre es Erin y no soy un zombie, aunque mi novio, el gángster Ryu, y el engendro de Clément, trataron de convertirme en uno. Así comienza esta novela de suspenso ambientada en Japón, en donde conviven humanos con seres de otro...

Dead Love: A Little Glo...

Feeling a little gloomy? I am. Really gloomy actually. And when I feel that way, I dive into a comic book. This time it’s Little Gloomy, a supposedly goth-related comic created by Landry Walker and Eric Jones and published by Slave Labor Graphics. Little Gloomy lives in...

Dead Love: Obon, When t...

I love Obon, Japan’s festival of the dead. It’s happening this year mid-August, though there’s always a question about the date, since it is supposed to take place in the 7th month of the year by the lunar calendar and we use a solar calendar. So some celebrate it in...