http://davidwriting.com David Sklar Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:44:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So an odd thing happened today.  Last night I put up a post about a bronze funerary sculpture from China that I'd once seen on the Internet--actually, it was a banked post that I'd stored for a week when I didn't have time to write a new blog post--and the ... http://davidwriting.com/a-citation-i-wasnt-expecting/ While randomly surfing the Web, I turned up an image of a bronze antlered bird statue from a Chinese tomb. Dated to the Chu Kingdom (c. 1100-223 B.C.), the full description is: "Antlered bird from tomb of Zeng Hou Yi, Leigudun, Suizhou, Hubei. 143.5 cm. h. Such a bronze adaptation of ... http://davidwriting.com/chinese-antlered-bird-sculpture/ So I'm not really sure who's reading this blog, or even if anyone is.  But the big news, if you're reading and you don't already know, is that Rachel and I are expecting a new baby in December. http://davidwriting.com/the-big-announcement-in-case-theres-anyone-reading-who-doesnt-already-know/ I just got word that the Imagine Peace anthology is available to order from Bottom Dog Press.  This includes reprints of poetry from such notables as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Sappho, and Walt Whitman, as well as contemporary poems from Carolyn Forché, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lyn Lifshin, Robert Pinsky, and ... http://davidwriting.com/imagine-peace-anthology-is-out/ A Folklorist’s Perspective on the 2008 Election.  The Democratic candidate has referred to himself as “a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”  The Republican ran a campaign based on experience and foreign policy, then nominated a running mate so unprepared that proximity to ... http://davidwriting.com/tricksters-on-the-trail/ As I promised in an earlier post, here are the pictures of the Halloween costume I conceived of at Albacon.  http://davidwriting.com/halloween-pix/ if (typeof YAHOO == "undefined") { var YAHOO = {}; } YAHOO.Shortcuts = YAHOO.Shortcuts || {}; YAHOO.Shortcuts.hasSensitiveText = false; YAHOO.Shortcuts.sensitivityType = []; YAHOO.Shortcuts.doUlt = false; YAHOO.Shortcuts.location = "us"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_id = 0; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_type = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_title = "Shadow of the Antlered ... http://davidwriting.com/45/ I just found out in my e-mail that Shadow of the Antlered Bird is now available for order direct from Drollerie Press. http://davidwriting.com/antlered-bird-now-available-from-drollerie-press/ Shadow of the Antlered Bird is now available as an e-book from Fictionwise <http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook74898.htm?cache> and Mobipocket <http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=99434>.   It hasn't gone up on the Drollerie Press Web site yet, but I'm told that's a matter of days or less. http://davidwriting.com/available-for-samhain-shadow-of-the-antlered-bird/ I had this dream this morning: A man has the ability to see through illusion to the magical things that happen in the world, just out of sightg.  However, he can't prove that the things he sees are real, and he isn't sure of it himself, so he ends up suppressing ... http://davidwriting.com/dragon-dream/