Brendan Peveril . net

• Petra Jean Phillipson - One Day

  I posted this a while ago, but it didn’t work, so here it is again.

  (tags: music)

• YouTube - Cat Power - Living Proof

  Same deal. It didn’t work

  (tags: music video)

My goal today was to write something that I liked well enough to post here. I hid in a coffee shop until that happened. Results are below the cut. It’s a little piece of the novel I’m writing, and it’s based loosely on a dream I had last night.

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My mother’s grape vines. She doesn’t harvest the grapes or anything, she just lets them hang there until the frost shrivels them and the birds carry them away.

So, I went to a book signing yesterday. You probably already know who Faith Hicks is from the venerable (by webcomic standards) Demonology 101. Her debut graphic novel is less a zombie story than a meta zombie story, so if you spend a lot of time thinking about zombies it will be your bag. I do that, waste time thinking about zombies.

Anyway, the important parts, there’s clever dialogue, asskicking, and the story skips along effortlessly when it needs to without getting mired in details or labourious fight scenes. The books reads a lot like Max Brooks’ zombie stuff, only without his eerie humourless affect. It’s exactly what it needs to be.

I’m looking forward to seeing what Faith comes up with next and you should be too. I’d try to explain why she wrote “Wolf Blitzer!” while she was defiling my book, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It was funny at the time, but you had to be there.

• Thanksgiving Prayer By: William S. Burroughs

  It’s a video, for watching. It mirrors how I feel about Thanksgiving and a lot of American culture

  (tags: burroughs literature thanksgiving)

I wanted to take a picture of the stars in Charlottetown. It didn’t work, though, so I wrote about them instead.

Through the windshield filth. This is like a self portrait, because you can see the shadow of the car.