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Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood Shakespeare + Kurosawa = x x + Noh Theatre + Sengoku Jidai = Throne of Blood Which I watched this weekend. It was all fog and haunted landscapes and faces frozen in terror or rage. Everything is unmoored. This includes the removal of all of Shakespeare's language, replaced by something more spartan and starkly theatrical. And while Kurosawa messes with the plot, holding his story to its own internal logic, all the main ambitions remain desperately the same: war, envy, treachery, madness, downfall. The character of Asaji (Lady Macbeth) is uniquely memorable for the creepy low orbit of her own high-minded damnation.

my painful period

I went to get a new sticker for my license plate today. I went early, trying to beat the lunch crowd. Trying to be smart. I like to run errands on nowhere-days, the kind of days that float around like little turds, because what the fuck . Today certainly fit the profile, one of those real head-cracking-headache days, thanks to some mysterious teeth-shifting (the tell of the doomed, grinding sleeper) and a lingering, half-assed cold. Anyway. So I get down there, and there's no line, and what should be a five-minute procedure turns into a forty-minute crotch-grab because someone (read: not me) put a period instead of a comma between the first and last name on my driver's license, and when the chick tried to swipe it through the computer reacted very badly . And then it turned positively pixilated when it discovered another DJ Berger - with the same birthday - existing somewhere else in Ontario. And with a name like that you just know the fucker probably doesn't pay his fin

my publishing history

Me with C, who likes to march around banging a pot on her head whenever I try to write. P U B L I S H I N G   H I S T O R Y   { b o o k s } Dark All Day : stories Imprint:     John Gosslee Books, Lynchburg, VA ISBN 978-0-9833655-8-7 Format:     5.5 x 8.5 paper # of pages:     182 pages Published:     2013 Punishing Ugly Children : stories Imprint:     Killick Press, St. John's, NL ISBN 978-1-897174-65-4 Format:     5.5 x 8.5 paper # of pages:     160 pages Published:     2010 [short stories & essays] Ugly Daikon; personal essay; Canadian Notes & Queries; Number 92, Spring, 2015, Canada; 1 pp Letter #26; personal essay; Canadian Notes & Queries; Number 86, Winter, 2012, Canada; 1 pp. Long Ago in Tokyo; personal essay; Palooka; Issue #3, Spring, 2012, USA; 4 pp. Guts; short story; Hayden’s Ferry Review; Issue #48, Spring/Summer 2011, USA; 2 pp. A Japanese Ghost Story; short story; Descant; Issue #152 Spring 2011, Canada; 4 pp. Superhero Cemetery; short story; The White

Etsy

So ... I'm taking a whack at this Etsy thing, selling some original artwork online. You can find my 'store' at http://redhanded.etsy.com I've never actually tried to sell anything to anyone before, so the whole thing feels a bit wonky. Still, we'll see.

for illustration friday ... {super hero}

More like Illustration Tuesday, but still: here's my x-man, and don't even ask what his problem is.

A Short Course in Social Graces

Hey, it's been awhile. My wolf (hiding on the roof, afraid of being rude) is for a (very) short story called Bang . Happy New Year, and thanks to everyone who didn't hide, and made some time for me.