Noise to Signal

Pure signal is like Janet and John – yes, you can understand everything on the page, but there's nothing much there worth understanding. Noise – or something approaching noise – is like a page of James Joyce, a page of Ian [sic] Sinclair – where there is such a density of information that it almost becomes incoherent, but it is full of information.

-Alan Moore on The Craft (an interview with Alan Moore by Daniel Whiston)

read the entire interview at The Victorious Swarm of the Flies of the Water (water flies? thank you, Internets!), here:

http://mouches-d-eau.blogspot.com/2008/07/craft.html

love at first sight

Miss Want It All, Clara Belle



if you ask me, she can have it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClaraBelleMusic
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Mona, je t'aime

a few months ago i learned a few months too late that the Philippine Free Press had published a story i wrote called Screws. Sarge Lacuesta confirmed that, yes, he had published it, and asked, when will i send him another...? so i sent him a relatively fresh story called The Nameless.

you can read The Nameless in the Philippine Free Press, Vol. 99, No. 29, dated July 19, 2008. (the Free Press have a website, http://philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com/, but you won't find the story there.)

i'm tickled by the preponderance of 9s, without really knowing why. that may be a clue to the kind of silliness that gave birth to The Nameless, which, for all its unworthy seriousness and freakish self-importance, was really something of a joke i was playing on my inner misanthrope (which is discernibly if only slightly more misanthropic than the outer one).

it was meant to be funny. really it was. not ha-ha funny, but funny in its own, unnameable (har) way.

thanks to Paul for the heads-up.

Yahoo! Mail! Sucks!

yes it does, for these and so many other reasons:

 

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