Archive for the ‘Chris Blanc’ Category

Paint huffing in the news

Friday, December 21st, 2007

If you’ve read Glitter Gold, a short story on this site, you’ll see the relevance immediately (and if not, consider clicking that link above for two free short stories):

Experts say gold and silver spray paints are preferred by “huffers.” They say the propellants in the cans for those color are stronger. ^

I’ve never had any desire to huff paint, but it is fascinating, perhaps because it is the most obviously self-destructive chemical habit I’ve seen. It’s the act of desperate people caught in the grips of motivational entropy. So I researched it and wrote about it, of course.

Tufa: The Name Means Rock

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Back in 1995, Bill Batchelor thought he could make a film funnier than Hollywood’s best efforts. Only difference was that Bill was using one-three-thousandth the budget of films at the time. The result, “Tufa: The Name Means Rock,” was a sizzling satire of rock and roll culture and the eternally larval immature humans it produces. You can download it now in .AVI or .MPG format, DRM-free and contract free, from this page.

Tufa: The Name Means Rock (movie)

Artisan magazine publishes a story

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Artisan magazine has published one of my short-shorts, tentatively titled “Effervescent Globe, Expanding.” The next issue will contain it as well as works by underground and mainstream authors of new fiction, literary fiction, and subversive social commentary.

http://www.artisanjournal.com/
artisan, a journal of craft

P.O. Box 157
Wilmette, IL 60091
editor@artisanjournal.com

I’m thankful to this magazine for giving my writing a chance, and recommend it to readers. They’ve thrown away the slick, like many of the best literary magazines out there (Barbaric Yawp, another publication, qualifies) as if in revolution against the style-over-substance culture that has afflicted literature in the last 30 years. With a cardstock cover enclosing carefully-chosen printed pages, Artisan is a labor of love for those who love literature.