Don

My blogs

Industry	Arts
Occupation	Bourgeois Bohemian
Location	Upstate NY, United States
Introduction	I write things. My work has appeared at McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY, REFLECTION'S EDGE, CROSSED GENRES, the anthologies RIGOR AMORTIS and CTHULHUROTICA, and other places. Co-editor of the upcoming BIBLIOTHECA FANTASTICA.
Interests	Writing, editing, coffee, espada y daga, roller derby
Favorite Movies	Withnail & I, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Glengarry Glen Ross, All the President's Men, MAS*H, Drunken Master, Hero, Once Upon a Time in China, Iron Monkey, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle
Favorite Music	Cassandra Wilson, Sons of Champlin, Bill Champlin, Chicago, Robert Lamm, The Bad Plus, Lonnie Plaxico, West Coast AOR, Earth Wind & Fire, TOTO, Chet Baker, blue-eyed soul, AIR, Steely Dan, Flaming Lips, 70s jazz-rock horn bands, anything with horns and a Hammond or a Moog
Favorite Books	Sherman Alexie, Isabel Allende, Ann Beattie, Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Boudinot, Charles Bukowski, Octavia Butler, Italo Calvino, Orson Scott Card, Raymond Carver, Cory Doctorow, Lydia Davis, Alan DeNiro, Warren Ellis, Harlan Ellison, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Etgar Keret, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Nancy Kress, Jhumpa Lahiri, Fran Lebowitz, J. Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, Dorothy Parker, Stacey Richter, M. Rickert, Nick Sagan, Ben Tanzer, Adrian Tomine, William T. Vollmann, Ray Vukcevich, Howard Waldrop, Brian Wood

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

As Doctor Who says, everything has its time and everything dies.