June 2011
13 posts
My new column about re-using America's unwanted...
In this strange new post-growth era, America has a vast oversupply of unwanted suburban houses and retail space. We can do interesting things with these charmless buildings. That’s what my new twice-monthly column is about, over at the sustainable housing website FourStory.org.
In the first installment, I write about a stunning new nature center/community building created from a dreary...
Another reason not to have cable/satellite...
“Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power than a new refrigerator and even some central air-conditioning systems.”— New York Times
“Wonkette editor Ken Layne has just published a novel. Related: Wonkette editor...”
– Thanks, Hamilton Nolan, for writing this a week or two ago. (One thing about not being on the Internet is you don’t see things on the Internet.) Gawker.com
“Written in an epistolary style that references other such texts, such as the...”
– “What is the ideal community” | Central Coast Foodie
“I figured out that I wouldn’t look back as an old man and wish I had spent more...”
– CNN via Cryptogon.
WatchFarmageddon Trailer (by Kristin Canty via Cryptogon).
This is for anyone who thinks SWAT teams raiding organic dairy farms is limited to dystopian fables.
Literary/Media Nepotism/Corruption Alert →
Greer Mansfield, the book review guy at Wonkette, does a Q&A with me about my new book, here.
The most popular items in Metaphysical Fiction →
Dignity is #30 on Amazon’s Metaphysical Fiction bestseller list, whatever that might mean! (Metaphysical fiction apparently refers to Carlos Castaneda and wizard/vampire metaphysical fantasy, but not Twilight.)
RT @stevesilberman: “I get along good because I don’t have many wants.” - Ohio woman, 100. http://usat.ly/ixO10f
“In style, Dignity is an epistolary novel, as if it were Paul writing the...”
– A very nice piece by Rebecca Schoenkopf at FourStory - Fair Living Advocacy
