“There are cases where the job possesses the man even after quitting time…it may affect his attitude towards all life. And art.” – Studs Terkel, ‘Working’
Friday Links: Exhausted Werewolves Edition
“But nothing has transpired, nothing that can be seen by anyone other than me. No one is looking at me…I start reading.” – Indra Das, ‘The Devourers’
When Did You Figure You Were Kinda Weird?
“Werewolves, we didn’t come up eating french fries through the ages” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’
Friday Links: Starting Spooky Season Early Edition
“In all the stories and all the movies, there’s human footprints walking along, becoming wolf prints at the end. In the heaven of werewolves…just new grass…” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’
Ekphrasis: Herons Edition
“…if I’d used the hidden camera I’dve had things that I don’t have. But I’d never use it. I hate sneaky photographers. There’s no respect.”- Jill Freedman to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’
Friday Links: Area Man Releases EP Edition
“I adore the work. It’s very comforting…Books are things that keep us going. Books—I haven’t got much feeling about many other things. I adore the work.” – Donna Murray to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’
An Incomplete History of Serialized Novels
“Drink a beer, read a book…I read on a weekend…during the weekdays, gee…don’t do that much reading from Monday through Friday. Unless it’s a horny book” – Mike Lefevre to Studs Terkel, ‘Working’
Friday Links: Welcome to Vine Edition
“Were it not God’s plan for His Chosen People in the Americas, the discovery of the consecrated land now known as Vine might be referred to as an accident” – the first line of ‘Vine’
Presenting: LAZY & ENTITLED
“We really love each other. We are the best of friends.” – Tom DeLonge, banter between songs, ‘The Mark Tom and Travis Show’
Friday Links: Sex Work Is Work Edition
“Amplifying things, good or bad, was what Chicago did best” – Abbot Kahler, ‘Sin In The Second City’