tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374108852024-03-13T09:27:07.276-04:00Gospel of the Living DeadKim Paffenroth's Page on his zombie-related fiction and non-fictionKPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.comBlogger1652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-71750738038565851612014-04-28T21:09:00.002-04:002014-04-28T21:10:45.206-04:00Five Star Review<a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1V3YY2VK0MZID/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00G3NJ8XI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't usually link to Amazon reviews, but this is one that really "got" what the book was about! </span></a><br />
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KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-13196613921720916292014-02-23T20:05:00.003-05:002014-02-23T20:27:49.907-05:00Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot<br />
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The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot<br />
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The nominees are:<br />
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in a Novel </u></b><br />
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Joe Hill – <i>NOS4A2</i> (William Morrow)<br />
Stephen King – <i>Doctor Sleep</i> (Scribner)<br />
Lisa Morton – <i>Malediction </i>(Evil Jester Press)<br />
Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson – <i>A Necessary End</i> (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press)<br />
Christopher Rice – <i>The Heavens Rise</i> (Gallery Books)<br />
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<b><u> Superior Achievement in a First Novel </u></b><br />
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Kate Jonez – <i>Candy House </i>(Evil Jester Press)<br />
John Mantooth –<i> The Year of the Storm</i> (Berkley Trade)<br />
Rena Mason – <i>The Evolutionist</i> (Nightscape Press)<br />
Jonathan Moore – <i>Redheads</i> (Samhain Publishing)<br />
Royce Prouty – <i>Stoker’s Manuscript </i>(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel </u></b><br />
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Patrick Freivald – <i>Special Dead</i> (JournalStone)<br />
Kami Garcia – <i>Unbreakable</i> (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)<br />
Geoffrey Girard – <i>Project Cain</i> (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)<br />
Joe McKinney – <i>Dog Days</i> (JournalStone)<br />
Cat Winters – <i>In the Shadow of Blackbirds</i> (Harry N. Abrams)
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel </u></b><br />
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Ed Brubaker – <i>Fatale Book Three: West of Hell </i>(Image Comics)<br />
Caitlin R. Kiernan – <i>Alabaster: Wolves</i> (Dark Horse Comics)<br />
Brandon Seifert – <i>Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice</i> (Image Comics)<br />
Cameron Stewart – <i>Sin Titulo</i> (Dark Horse Comics)<br />
Paul Tobin – <i>Colder </i>(Dark Horse Comics)<br />
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<b><u> Superior Achievement in Long Fiction </u></b><br />
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Dale Bailey – “The Bluehole” (<i>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</i>, May/June 2013)<br />
Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (<i>Chiral Mad 2</i>, Written Backwards)<br />
Benjamin K. Ethridge – “The Slaughter Man” (<i>Limbus, Inc</i>., JournalStone)<br />
Gregory Frost – “No Others Are Genuine” (<i>Asimov’s Science Fiction</i>, Oct./Nov. 2013)<br />
Greg F. Gifune – <i>House of Rain</i> (DarkFuse)<br />
Rena Mason – <i>East End Girls </i>(JournalStone)<br />
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<u><b> Superior Achievement in Short Fiction </b></u><br />
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Michael Bailey – “Primal Tongue” (<i>Zippered Flesh 2</i>, Smart Rhino Publications)<br />
Patrick Freivald – “Snapshot” (<i>Blood & Roses</i>, Scarlett River Press)<br />
David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (<i>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</i>, Jan./Feb. 2013)<br />
Lisa Mannetti – “The Hunger Artist” (<i>Zippered Flesh 2</i>, Smart Rhino Publications)<br />
John Palisano – “The Geminis” (<i>Chiral Mad 2</i>, Written Backwards)<br />
Michael Reaves – “Code 666” (<i>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</i>, March/April 2013)<br />
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in a Screenplay </u></b><br />
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Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert – <i>The Returned:</i> “The Horde” (Ramaco Media I, Castelao Pictures)<br />
Brad Falchuk – <i>American Horror Story: Asylum</i>: “Spilt Milk” (Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)<br />
Bryan Fuller – <i>Hannibal</i>: “Apéritif” (Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television)<br />
Daniel Knauf – <i>Dracula</i>: “A Whiff of Sulfur” (Flame Ventures, Playground, Universal Television, Carnival Films)<br />
Glen Mazzara – <i>The Walking Dead</i>: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)<br />
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<b><u> Superior Achievement in an Anthology </u></b><br />
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R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (ed.) – <i>Horror Library: Volume 5</i> (Cutting Block Press)<br />
Eric J. Guignard (ed.) – <i>After Death…</i> (Dark Moon Books)<br />
Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel (ed.) – <i>Barbers & Beauties</i> (Hummingbird House Press)<br />
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (ed.) – <i>The Grimscribe’s Puppets</i> (Miskatonic River Press)<br />
Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson (ed.) – <i>Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror</i>, Volume One (Grey Matter Press)<br />
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection </u></b><br />
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Nathan Ballingrud – <i>North American Lake Monsters: Stories </i>(Small Beer Press)<br />
Laird Barron – <i>The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories</i> (Night Shade Books)<br />
James Dorr – <i>The Tears of Isis</i> (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)<br />
Caitlin R. Kiernan – <i>The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories </i>(Subterranean)<br />
Gene O’Neill – <i>Dance of the Blue Lady</i> (Bad Moon Books)<br />
S. P. Somtow - <i>Bible Stories for Secular Humanists</i> (Diplodocus Press)
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<b><u>Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction </u></b><br />
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Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan (ed.) – <i>Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic</i> (Fairleigh Dickinson)<br />
Gary William Crawford (ed.) – <i>Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror</i> (Scarecrow Press)<br />
William F. Nolan – <i>Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction </i>(Hippocampus Press)<br />
Jarkko Toikkanen – <i>The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures</i> (Palgrave Macmillan)<br />
Robert H. Waugh (ed.) – <i>Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors </i>(Scarecrow Press)<br />
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Bruce Boston – <i>Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012</i> (Dark Renaissance Books)<br />
Helen Marshall – <i>The Sex Lives of Monsters </i>(Kelp Queen Press)<br />
Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca – <i>Dangerous Dreams </i>(Elektrik Milk Bath Press)<br />
Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – <i>Four Elements</i> (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)<br />
Stephanie M. Wytovich – <i>Hysteria: A Collection of Madness</i> (Raw Dog Screaming Press)KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-75419564398753141272014-01-14T17:29:00.000-05:002014-01-14T17:31:31.550-05:00The Ostrich<img height="246" src="http://ostrichproducersofontario.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ostrich_fam.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on
the ground and lets them warm in the sand, unmindful that a foot may crush
them, that some wild animal may trample them. She treats her young harshly,as
if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain, for God did
not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense. Yet when she
spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider." (Job
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I was going to try to explain the fuller story of the
ostrich, but I don't think I can get into it all now, as it is a very long and
convoluted tale. Let us just say, as far as I can tell in the context of the
Job quotation, the ostrich herself (and the other animals vividly described in
that chapter) is a symbol of the forces that resist human explanation. She is
not, after all, a very powerful or dangerous animal, she is just weird: look
how her knees actually bend the wrong way; she has no ears to speak of, just
holes in her head; she is an enormous flightless bird, when, to the ancient
mind in general, and reflected in the Hebrew dietary laws, all
"natural" things were supposed to have set "natures" that
could be discernible by human observation and categorization - and birds, by
definition, are feathered things that fly - and she has thereby defied human
attempts to define or comprehend her; if the Jobian author's story of her cruel
mothering is true (though I chose a picture that belies it), it is a "miracle"
she propagates her species at all - though how weird to speak of a
"miracle" to mean the continuation of a species characterized by
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But I have now taken the humble ostrich as my Spirit Animal,
my inspiration, to remind me that there is so much in the world that cannot be
understood or limited or tamed. That does not offer me complete immunity from
the natural human frustration when confronted with such things, but it does
begin to tilt my feelings more toward "wonder" and away from the more
negative aspects of frustration, rejection, or denial. I will keep trying.</div>
KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-45240880962587925612013-12-10T14:05:00.005-05:002013-12-10T14:05:56.970-05:00Contest! <a href="http://stantlitore.com/2013/12/03/zombies-past-and-future-4-zombie-plagues-4-great-prizes/" target="_blank">Over at Stant Litore's awesome website - check it out!</a>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-60439200698741697142013-11-15T16:28:00.003-05:002013-11-15T16:28:34.063-05:00Essay!<a href="http://www.smartpopbooks.com/for-love-is-strong-as-death/" target="_blank">Available for free over at Smart Pop Books, until November 22!! </a>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-81693208689529679682013-11-03T15:29:00.002-05:002013-11-03T15:29:29.392-05:00PALE GODS <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All editions, now available!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buy, read, leave reviews! Thanks!</span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-61968075257757721372013-10-25T18:47:00.005-04:002013-10-25T18:47:43.434-04:00Kindle Version!!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pale-Gods-ebook/dp/B00G3NJ8XI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382741043&sr=1-2&keywords=pale+gods" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kindle version of PALE GODS is now available for ordering! Go to it! </span></a>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-8551216610712576732013-10-05T15:25:00.001-04:002013-10-05T15:28:33.087-04:00Pale Gods<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are now, on the brink of release for this title! So expect some more announcements, but for now, take in the cover and blurb!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kim Paffenroth has emerged as one of the towering
voices in zombie fiction. He is always clear, always insightful, always full of
questions that probe the human condition; but with <i>Pale Gods</i>, he's set the bar
impossibly high for the rest of us. His trademark erudition is on full display
here, and his tremendous capacity for empathy too, but the real joy for me was
in the tale's unfolding. Paffenroth has a real gift for keeping you guessing,
and <i>Pale Gods</i> is Paffenroth at his very best. I loved it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-37266332660507005482013-09-10T11:50:00.001-04:002013-09-10T11:50:08.982-04:00I'm HUGE in Italy!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really, I am! <a href="http://www.rawandwild.com/testimonies/2013/exilium.php" target="_blank">Check it out over at RAW AND WILD WEB MAGAZINE!</a></span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-78759929308935311272013-08-23T23:30:00.000-04:002013-08-23T23:30:02.942-04:00Summer 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No big trips, but lots of day trips and a couple overnight ones to places that I found exciting and interesting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not in chronological or any other order, but here are some highlights!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stood in the <a href="http://www.mobydick.org/" target="_blank">spot where Moby-Dick was written.</a> I haven't taught the book in years, but it still occupies my imagination, and many of my favorite memories of teaching are of this work. So it was for me an important pilgrimage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stopped in small towns I'd never been to before, and drank coffee and looked at various objets d'art - Brattleboro, VT; Greater Barrington, MA; Northampton, MA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stepped in the Atlantic twice - once near Newport, RI, and then at Atlantic City, NJ. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stood before Bam-Bam Bigelow's ring outfit, and many other pieces of priceless ephemera at the <a href="http://www.pwhf.org/" target="_blank">Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.</a> There's something valuable and humane, about how people get devoted to these things, to such an extent that they'll preserve the history of their particular obsession, when it would otherwise vanish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also did my part to keep <a href="http://www.santasland.com/" target="_blank">Santa's Land open another season</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw <a href="http://hvshakespeare.org/" target="_blank">King Lear twice at Boscobel.</a> (A place so lovely one would do well to pay to watch the grass grow there.) And here we have a piece of my teaching that goes all the way back to the beginning, to struggling with young people with such a difficult play, and learning along with them. I have never seen it before and this was something I really longed to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw <a href="http://www.motley.com/" target="_blank">Motley Crue </a>at the beginning of the summer, and <a href="http://www.nightranger.com/" target="_blank">Night Ranger</a> at the end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, some good memories!</span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-41629158818830714372013-08-16T17:06:00.001-04:002013-08-16T17:06:26.510-04:00Liberal and Conservative<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have eschewed any political posts on my blog for years, but this needs more than a Facebook post to explain. And it's not polemical anyway, so here goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a native English speaker who's bombarded with coded political language every day, I know which constellation of words will inevitably appear on the website of a conservative group in the contemporary US context, and I know which ones will appear on the website of a liberal group in the same context. (Or in their written statements, or in posts by people from either of those two stripes.) "Tradition, values, freedom, personal responsibility" = terms used exclusively by the Right. "Diversity, tolerance, equality" = only on the Left. "Respect, individual, dignity" = used promiscuously by both, either because that's what we all *really* believe in, or to obfuscate differences. (And funny that the French motto includes one from the Left and one from the Right, plus the ambiguous "brotherhood"; but I think this will prove significant later on.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what always strikes Lefty me, is how the right wing catch phrases or pet words aren't ones I dislike or disagree with. Perhaps those on the Right could even grant that they have nothing intrinsically against "my" words. And let's try to step past the accusation of insincerity, as in, "Sure, they say they believe in freedom but they don't really!" or "They only believe in freedom for themselves!" I think that's too cynical. I really don't believe all conservatives (in either a political or intellectual sense) are intolerant or believe people should be treated w/o equality (though of course there are demagogues who do use rhetoric to mask what they really believe). Again, I'd hope for enough tolerance from my friends on the Right that they do not think I favor enslavement and I take no responsibility for my actions. Again, these would all be caricatures and we'd never have dialogue if we believed in them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I really believe happens (demagogues excepted) is a conflict in the ordering or prioritizing of goods, as well as disagreement over the public and private elements w/in those goods. In other words, to me, "personal responsibility" is crucially important in my life, but was taught to me a very long time ago and mostly in the private setting of me being raised by my parents; so I don't see that as a point of my identity I'd need to advertise or use to define myself, as it's nearly instinctual to me (though there is also a temptation to violate it, it would still be done w/ full knowledge one had violated something one holds dear), and requires neither education nor debate nor public funding; I take it as nearly axiomatic that all people were taught that at a similarly early stage. I really don't see it under attack, the way so many people on the Right do. Of course, they don't see "tolerance and equality," as threatened, whereas I do, because I was only taught to value those much later in life and they relate to a much more extended society than my friends and family, people to whom I feel less natural affinity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or really, to put it another way, I think it does come back to the two terms we've taken from the French motto and throw around so much in our current rhetoric. I think everyone on Right and Left could agree with this: Humans naturally desire freedom (though I'm using the term uncritically, let's just go with it), but they don't really desire equality all. (Everyone I know wants to have MORE than other people, not an equal amount.) Lefty me believes in greater protections for equality, because it is the less likely for people to pursue on their own (and at the extremes of inequality would threaten freedom). People on the Right see that as limiting freedom, which they think, since it's the more natural and universal of the two Goods, should not be impinged on at all. For them, protecting freedom is all you need, and whatever level of (in)equality you ended up with among free agents would be fine (or, at the least, necessary and unavoidable and not worth threatening freedom over). To me, they have reified the value of Freedom over everything else; to them, I'm naively and misguidedly pursuing a "good" that is not natural (equality) and must be forced on people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, although that may clarify some things, I don't think it makes dialogue any easier (since it boils it down to a more fundamental disagreement over values). </span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-83079460207344936532013-08-15T21:00:00.001-04:002013-08-15T21:00:44.216-04:00Interview over at Joe McKinney's Blog!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my first "horror friends" was Joe McKinney, police officer and author of the zombie classic <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-City-Joe-McKinney/dp/0786023589/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376614821&sr=1-1&keywords=dead+city" target="_blank">Dead City</a></i>. This month he's featuring <a href="http://joemckinney.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/kim-paffenroth/" target="_blank">interviews on his blog and I made this week's! Check it out! </a></span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-27977250670216080372013-08-13T21:54:00.003-04:002013-08-13T21:57:58.045-04:00America Magazine<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who don't traffic in Catholic,
north American, popular but thoughtful journals (wow, when you describe it, it
sounds like a pretty specific demographic!) - <st1:country-region w:st="on"><i>America</i></st1:country-region> is the preeminent example
of that. <a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/faith-hope-and-zombies" target="_blank">And this week's issue has a short but very accurate application of myanalysis to the zombie genre generally, by Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.(Franciscans, for those who aren't up on their religious orders): "If welook at the compulsive, consumptive, individualistic and violent aspects of theundead and those who fight them as an allegory for our human sinfulness, thezombie genre might serve as a reminder of what it means to have true life, andhave it to the fullest." Check it out!</a></span></div>
KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-9156381778803271132013-08-06T22:45:00.000-04:002013-08-06T22:45:16.936-04:00Trip<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Took a short one by myself, just because. And Saturday's horoscope (which I was reading Saturday night while on the trip) certainly confirmed the choice! - "Take a break. A short trip or social outing will lead to creative ideas." I swear horoscopes and fortune cookies just get enough uncannily correct ones to keep me interested!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, this trip was about me and things I hadn't done ever (or not in a while). So first I went to <a href="http://www.pwhf.org/" target="_blank">the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame</a>. That was old school, and exactly the kind of thing that makes subcultures - be they cosplay, or zombies, or model rocketeers - fun to participate in. It's the level of devotion and dedication and care that is so fascinating - care to keep something alive that would otherwise be ephemeral. This was two floors of a dusty store front in the mostly abandoned downtown of Amsterdam, NY. Clearly a bunch of fans had been comparing memorabilia, when it hit them, "If we put all our stuff together, we'd have enough for a museum!" And once they did, and people started coming, the visitors started donating and it grew. (The first thing it made me think to do was put together a donation of what I have and send it to them.) This was one of the funnest things I've seen in a long time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Started driving east and a little north from there, heading into Vermont. Stopped in Bennington just to check out the stores and galleries, and totally spaced on the fact that <a href="http://flawediamonds.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">John Goodrich, author and blogger extraordinaire, would be working in the game store there. </a>But there he was, even bigger and redder than I remembered, so I got an unexpected visit out of the trip as well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continued on to Brattleboro where I checked in to the <a href="http://www.dalemschalet.com/index.html" target="_blank">overgrown and musty Dalem's Chalet</a>. Perhaps not as colorful as <a href="http://www.cassandrarailroadoverlook.com/" target="_blank">the Cassandra Overlook Motel from my trip in March</a>, but verging on that level of dilapidation. I quickly drove out of town to see if <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SantasLand?fref=ts" target="_blank">Santa's Land was still in business as I had been promised</a>. It was, though I was the only person on the property besides Santa and the elves, so we chatted some (they being friendly by nature). They've obviously spent some money on the place - everything has a fresh coat of paint, and the petting zoo animals look healthy, clean, and fed. The next hurdle will be some advertising, and I'm thinking some paving, as all the paths had been pretty much reduced to grass interrupted with some macadam chunks, and somebody's gonna trip on that and sue them and that'll be the end of Santa. But, anyway, why do I go to these places? Well, I'd go to the one I went to as a child (<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/8979" target="_blank">The Gingerbread Castle of Hamburg, NJ</a>) but there's nothing but ruins left; same if I made the jaunt down to the equivalent place my wife went to as a child (<a href="http://theimaginaryworld.com/ef.html" target="_blank">The Enchanted Forest of Ellicott City, MD</a>), except that's been paved over to make room for another Home Depot or something equally indispensable for our modern way of life to survive; definitely still existing but only as fenced off ruins, is the one nearby that did survive until 2003 so I took my children there twice, <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/890" target="_blank">The Fairy Tale Forest of Oak Ridge, NJ. </a>To me, like wrestling, these represent a connection to a simpler past. Though yes, I understand wrestling is thriving a good deal better than storybook lands, but really as I thought about it, the two concepts are both ludicrously simple by modern entertainment standards: the one relies on children being enthralled by statues and a couple real life people dressed up as the characters of the stories read to them each night; the other relies on men, young and old, suspending disbelief so thoroughly they will not only accept, but will be gripped by a raging fervor unknown outside of demonic possession, for the idea that two large men who are obviously pretending to beat each other senseless, really are doing so, and doing so in front of a backdrop of melodrama populated almost entirely by Jungian archetypes (evil twins, cackling villains, men [and now more women] possessed by envy or revenge, etc.). Again - simpler past. I will step back to it every chance I get. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back from my idyll with the elves, I went to Brattleboro's downtown, which is a slightly different obsession of mine. I love when decaying rust belt downtowns remake themselves with a shot of art and immigrants. To me it is the other side of the kind of nostalgia my first two stops indulge in. It's more forward looking and dynamic. So a stop at the <a href="http://www.beadniksvt.com/" target="_blank">craftsy Beadniks</a> and <a href="http://www.shinlarestaurant.com/" target="_blank">dinner at Shin La </a>made me happy as well. Ended the evening with maple flavored soft serve from <a href="http://www.chelsearoyaldiner.com/home.php" target="_blank">The Chelsea Royal Diner</a>, which I ate while standing on the iconic <a href="http://www.coveredbridgesite.com/vt/creamery.html" target="_blank">Creamery Covered Bridge.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up early the next morning, driving south to meet a friend from our days at <a href="http://www.hds.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Harvard Divinity School.</a> (She doesn't have a website or blog that I know of, sorry.) She showed me around Northampton, MA, which I had never visited. More artsy-fartsy stuff, including <a href="http://www.facesmainst.com/" target="_blank">Faces, a sort of Urban Outfitters meets Spencer Gifts, which I thought was a hoot, </a> and the <a href="http://www.shopfoe.com/" target="_blank">FOE Gallery, which was populated mostly with Kaiju and UltraMan inspired stuff</a> (again making me giggle). Then I continued on to Newport, RI, a favorite destination since we first visited with friends from Villanova way back in 1999. <a href="http://www.dartinn.com/" target="_blank">The Dartmouth Motor Inn I can more heartily recommend</a> than other non-chain motels I've stayed at recently: This is clearly an older property but they've refurbished all the rooms; $60 for a room in high season, this close to Newport - I don't think you can complain that it's not the Hampton Inn. I got there fairly late, which meant it was free to go to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseneck_Beach_State_Reservation" target="_blank">Horseneck Beach (I think one of the best beaches in the NE</a>), and then dinner <a href="http://thebaysiderestaurant.com/" target="_blank">at The Bayside</a>. (Only inferior meal I've had there, unfortunately, and not entirely explainable just by it being busy, as it's always busy in the summer.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday was a morning of shopping in downtown Newport and I finally splurged on <a href="http://www.bannistersnewport.com/clarke_cooke_house.html" target="_blank">chowda at the Clarke Cooke House, and that was the best chowda I've had in a while. </a>I got in a drive around Ocean Drive, a tour <a href="http://www.newportmansions.org/explore/the-breakers" target="_blank">of the Breakers</a>, and a walk <a href="http://www.cliffwalk.com/sect2.htm" target="_blank">along the Cliff Walk and down the 40 Steps</a> in the late afternoon. Since I've always been impressed with The Bayside on every other visit, I gave them a chance to redeem themselves, which they did - dinner last night was way more up to my standards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I broke up the drive home today with a stop <a href="http://www.osv.org/" target="_blank">at Old Sturbridge Village</a>. That's one of the more thorough historical recreations I've seen since <a href="https://museum.gov.ns.ca/sv/index.php" target="_blank">Sherbrooke Village of Nova Scotia</a>. Not as flashy as Williamsburg, of course, but every house was doing something. And I'd never seen a sawmill in operation. So that was another good stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now I'm home!</span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-18018575647337208642013-07-23T18:20:00.004-04:002013-07-23T18:31:30.946-04:00Facebook, Timex, Time, and Mortality<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though I am hardly a trendsetter (I can barely follow
trends), I do sometimes adapt with the current technology. So I have mostly
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, the humble blog where it all began will probably be down
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for Timex - that's a sturdy watch! For the last five or
six years, I'd carried around the one we found in my father's apartment nine
years ago when he died in 2004. It finally gave up the Timekeeping Ghost. He
had another, cheaper and gaudier looking one (it looks like the kind you
would've wanted when you were 10 - all metal with lots of knobs and shit). I'm
going to have a battery put in that. If it works, another five or six years to
have something to remember him by, daily. And then gone. Then my turn in a few
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is the essence of <i>King Lear</i>, I think (which I was
blessed enough to see again last week with a phenomenal former student; the
troupe really had their timing and blocking down much better and it was an
amazing performance - check them out at <a href="http://hvshakespeare.org/" target="_blank">Hudson Valley Shakespeare</a>). As unlikely
and unappealing as the whole thing can be (as to characters or plot), the
tragedy is so effective because it's so simple: telescoped into a few days
"real" time (3 hours on the stage) we have a man realizing everything
around him is mortal - not just himself (that's really a fairly trivial
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Let me wipe it first - it smells of mortality." For some reason I always want to recollect that line as "reeks" of
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KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-1790739834854894972013-06-17T23:00:00.002-04:002013-06-17T23:00:45.948-04:00King Lear at Boscobel<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw <i>King
Lear</i> this past weekend with my wife and daughter. It was a
very profound experience seeing it acted. (My first time seeing the play I taught so many times!) The venue is a spectacular one to
see drama at – </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s outdoors and the sun sets during the performance; the whole
scene is breathtaking no matter what the actors do. People arrive early and picnic. The evening was comfortable, balmy, relaxing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But, on to the play, which is not those things! The eye gouging was cringe
worthy; nothing elaborate (and since it's nearly in the round they can't do much w/o the audience seeing) but good use of squibs. The death scene had me sobbing. In between there were definitely lines
that don’t bear up on the stage – “Reason not the need!” came across as
petulant, childish. I have no idea why Goneril was trying to placate or do something to
him while he was going off on his “blast her organs of increase” rant (it made
her look oddly sympathetic, which was weird and uncomfortable). “Blow winds,
crack your cheeks” seemed sort of silly (as did most of the “mad Lear” lines).
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didn’t seem nearly as ridiculous as I’ve always read him as, and I think the way
the parallel plots illuminate one another was more clear to me on stage than it
is in print (where it appears more redundant). The scene between Lear and
blinded </span><st1:city style="font-size: 12pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gloucester</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,
with all Lear’s wisecracking about sight (which in print seems rather mean
spirited) was the most tender, emotional scene prior to carrying dead Cordelia
on stage. “Let’s away to prison” on the other hand, seemed rushed and fake (as
they did it with Edmund standing right next to them and kind of rushing them
along, which is not at all how I’d imagine it). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in short - Harold Bloom is partly right (he's always <i>partly</i> right!) that you can't really act it on stage: the speeches are too complex and <i>literary</i> to hold up. But at the same time, it brings things out you haven't noticed, and affects you in a more visceral, immediate way. With tickets at only about $40 it is the best entertainment money you'll spend this year. </span></span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-26361280282203316482013-05-29T16:58:00.001-04:002013-05-29T16:58:23.060-04:00Star Trek: Into Darkness<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, let me just say that this is a fun, fun movie. If you know nothing of Star Trek TOS (The Original Series) I think you'd still have a great time. (I think some stuff would confuse you, but since the timeline is messed with, I was confused about some stuff, too, and I grew up on TOS.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second, I highly recommend </span><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-directed-by-j-j-abrams.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. O. Scott's review in the NYTimes</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I really think he continues Ebert's tradition of giving you the info you need (no spoilers) to decide whether or not a particular movie is for you. So in his review he rightly notes that the opening sequence is so reminiscent of TOS that it has people our age (Mr Scott is 46, I just turned 47) reminiscing about the old days and the Prime Directive and hoping for something non-Michael Bayesque. And this film partly delivers, partly falls into "lots of big mechanical things exploding" trap of current action filmdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I think I was more taken by the many throwbacks to TOS than Mr Scott, so I forgave some of the implausible and person-dwarfing fights and explosions. Because ultimately, the film comes down to characters - that those of us who love TOS immediately knew, and newcomers would not, but that's a two-edged sword for the film: us old timers are immediately predisposed to like and be fascinated by these people, but we're also so used to the old actors and we're ready to be disappointed or critical if something isn't how we remember or expect. I was enthralled by how they'd reconceived while simultaneously doing homage to the characters and the actors, esp. Bones and Scotty. They steal every scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there are much deeper issues here than a beloved franchise that may be getting creaky. Take for example a much newer franchise, but with a character that just (to my mind) couldn't even take an updating into the Cold War timeframe - the 2008</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was an abomination,</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> because Indy is a Depression era, up by his bootstraps, fundamentally hopeful and naive character; he can't survive in a Cold War with nuclear weapons and Russians instead of Nazis. And the nods to a post-9/11 world are constant in this Star Trek (including a dedication to all post-9/11 veterans at the very end). But I felt the crew of the Enterprise weathered this better. Scotty's line to a behemoth security guard, "Are you StarFleet or private security? You look like private security," was both humorous and gave us some satisfaction at the Blackwater stand-in's fate. Peter Weller is the perfect Cheney/Rumsfeld analogue - or really, our feelings for him perfectly reflect our own ambivalence about the War on Terror - he's creepy, but maybe he's right; he's deceitful and willing to kill innocents, but he loves his family; and however sinister he is (SPOILER ALERT) he doesn't deserve to be murdered as his daughter looks on (herself having just been savagely beaten and kicked by the space-baddy). There was something here in which TOS's optimism and good humor survived in the new, darker, more cynical world, but without simple triumphalism or jingoism: Kirk and the crew have a tougher world ahead of them, but they have not been crushed or poisoned by it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in a way even larger than geo-politics, consider the physical world of the film and TOS. The Golden Gate Bridge is prominent in several shots (it would be over 300 years old by that point). Every time something breaks on my automobile, it's never anything physical - not a belt or a gear or a hose; it's something electronic that performs much better than its older counterpart, until it breaks, at which point it renders my car undriveable ( while the older counterpart, when it broke, would make the car just run less well or less safely). The Enterprise doesn't seem to have any of these gizmos on board: when something breaks it's a "coolant leak" and they can limp on at half power. And in the climactic scene of fixing something, it's kicking one, big, metal thing, until it aligns with another big, metal thing. I'm not just making fun of the implausibility here, but really acknowledging what TOS and the film know - we are physical beings, we enjoy our physicality: much more fisticuffs in TOS or this film than lasers - even ship to ship battle is conducted with much more damage being dealt by physical torpedoes than beam weapons; Kirk has sex with ladies with tails (TOS settled for green ladies, and now I don't feel so bad for all the times I've looked at tailed and hooved ladies on WoW and wondered how exactly that'd work); Scotty of course gets drunk on stuff that's still served in containers that look to be made of glass and contain things that look like cubes of frozen water. The one twist they need at the end is completely physical too - (SPOILER ALERT) not a DNA sequence but just real blood to "cure" Kirk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's always been the real joy of TOS and here: wherever we go and whatever we find there, we'll still be <em>us</em>, there will be something about us that's unchanged and noble and fragile and enjoyable. When we find a genocidal megalomaniac, he really won't be that different than the ones we had when we threw rocks at one another. And when we fall in love with someone from another planet (either in friendship or romance), it won't be that different than when we fell in love with someone on this planet.</span> KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-63896507062501666312013-05-15T15:06:00.001-04:002013-05-15T15:06:07.285-04:00New Blog!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend just started blogging! </span><br />
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<a href="http://learninglife2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Learning Life, Too Blog</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not horror related, but just to have a place for her thoughts, which I know from personal experience are always ... well, thoughtful! Evocative, really, and therefore so appropriate she'd want to learn as she goes! I think you all will have fun following along! </span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-78968557392548747572013-04-19T20:54:00.004-04:002013-04-19T20:54:55.666-04:00Stoker Finalists!<a href="http://stokers2013.horror.org/stokers.html" target="_blank">Check them out! (Scroll down for Nonfiction!) </a>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-76375007268166683742013-04-08T17:45:00.000-04:002013-04-08T17:50:50.874-04:00Newest From Carole Lanham<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mississippi 1920: Nine year old servant, Hadley Crump, finds himself drawn into a secret world when he is invited to join wealthy Lucinda Browning's dirty book club. No one suspects that the bi-racial son of the cook is anything more to Lucinda than a charitable obligation, but behind closed doors, O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright. What begins as a breathless investigation into the more juicy parts of literature quickly becomes a consuming and life-long habit for two people who would not otherwise be left alone together. As lynchings erupt across the South and the serving staff is slowly cut to make way for new mechanical household conveniences, Hadley begins to understand how dangerous and precarious his situation is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Reading Lessons</i> follows the lives of two people born into a world that is unforgiving as a Hangman's knot. Divided by skin color and joined by books, Hadley and Lucinda are forced to come together in the only place that will allow it, a land of printed words and dark secrets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coming Summer 2013 from Immortal Ink Publishing</span><br />
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<br />KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-84127151752679230232013-03-31T21:32:00.002-04:002013-03-31T21:32:47.226-04:00Happy Easter!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or whatever you celebrate! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much going on here! Just got back from a really fun trip to the <a href="http://francis.edu/naucrp/" target="_blank">North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy! Check out their website, and here's a nice photo of me with my students after they'd done a great job presenting!</a></span><br />
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<br />KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-8404737849293337982013-03-07T13:12:00.000-05:002013-03-17T10:44:11.382-04:00Update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It being my birthday, it seemed like it's time for one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last year I have spent more time on my teaching. I hope I wasn't shirking it before, but I did feel like I needed to devote myself to it, be more active and proactive in what I do for my students. And I think it's paid off. Because as I look back on this year, I see my accomplishments in theirs. Helping them achieve things is my purpose and I take pride in the results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, here's my scorecard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One student had her paper accepted and will present at the meeting of the</span><a href="http://www.coretexts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Association for Core Texts and Courses.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four students will present at the </span><a href="http://francis.edu/NAUCRP/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two students will present at </span><a href="http://www.iona.edu/academic/artsscience/researchday/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iona's Undergraduate Research Day.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One student accepted into the prestigious </span><a href="http://www.iona.edu/academic/studyabroad/fullyear/oxford.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blackfriars Hall program at Oxford.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One student accepted (with generous financial support) by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.utsnyc.edu/" target="_blank">Union Theological Seminary.</a> UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: As I predicted, she has also been accepted to <a href="http://www.hds.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Harvard Divinity School! </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those are what I'm really focused on, and how I measure my success this year. I guess that's been part of my realization this year - I'm a teacher first, and a writer second. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, for those of you who know me mostly as an author, I have not been completely neglecting that part of my life: my work </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Undead-Theology-Kim-Paffenroth/dp/1610978757/ref=la_B001IXRNVM_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1362679547&sr=1-7" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Undead and Theology</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a finalist for the </span><a href="http://worldhorrorconvention.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram Stoker Award to be presented in June in New Orleans.</span></a> KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-81475316714757000442013-02-23T13:38:00.004-05:002013-02-23T13:41:34.748-05:002012 Stoker Final Ballot!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce
the Final Ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org
) is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre,
with nearly 1000 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various
categories since 1987 (see http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm ).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HWA Board and the Bram Stoker Awards Committee
congratulate all these Bram Stoker Award Nominees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ethridge, Benjamin Kane – Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everson, John – NightWhere (Samhain Publishing)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kiernan, Caitlin R. – The Drowning Girl (Roc)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little, Bentley – The Haunted (Signet)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:city w:st="on">McKinney</st1:city>,
Joe – Inheritance (Evil Jester Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boccacino, Michael – Charlotte Markham and the House of
Darklings (William Morrow)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coates, Deborah – Wide Open (Tor Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day, Charles – The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief (Noble YA
Publishers LLC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dudar, Peter – A Requiem for Dead Flies (Nightscape Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gropp, Richard – Bad Glass (Ballantine/Del Rey)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soares, L.L. – Life Rage (Nightscape Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bray, Libba – The Diviners (Little Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lyga, Barry – I Hunt Killers (Little Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maberry, Jonathan – Flesh & Bone (Simon & Schuster)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McCarty, Michael – I Kissed A Ghoul (Noble Romance
Publishing)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stiefvater, Maggie – The Raven Boys (Scholastic Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:place w:st="on">Strand</st1:place>, Jeff – A Bad Day
for Voodoo (Sourcebooks)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bunn, Cullen – The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound (Oni Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moore, Terry – Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death
(Abstract Studio)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:city w:st="on">Thornton</st1:city>, Ravi – The Tale of
Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Jonathan</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Cape</st1:placename></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wacks, Peter J., and Guy Anthony De Marco – Behind These
Eyes (Villainous Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wood, Rocky, and Lisa Morton – Witch Hunts: A Graphic
History of the Burning Times (McFarland)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burke, Kealan Patrick – Thirty Miles South of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Dry</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ketchum, Jack, and Lucky McKee – I’m Not Sam (Sinister Grin
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:city w:st="on">McKinney</st1:city>, Joe, and Michael
McCarty – Lost Girl of the <st1:place w:st="on">Lake</st1:place> (Bad Moon
Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O’Neill, Gene – The Blue Heron (Dark Regions Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prentiss, Norman – The Fleshless Man (Delirium Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mutant</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Rain Forest</st1:placetype></st1:place> (Daily Science Fiction)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Marvin</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Gardens</st1:placename></st1:place> (Best of Dark Moon Digest, Dark
Moon Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ochse, Weston – Righteous (Psychos, Black Dog and Leventhall
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palisano, John – Available Light (Lovecraft eZine, March
2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snyder, Lucy – Magdala Amygdala (Dark Faith: Invocations,
Apex Book Company)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goldman, Jane – The Woman in Black (Cross Creek Pictures)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kim, Sang Kyu – The Walking Dead, “Killer Within” (AMC TV)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minear, Tim – American Horror Story: Asylum, “Dark Cousin”
(Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ross, Gary, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray – The Hunger
Games (Lionsgate, Color Force)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whedon, Joss, and Drew Goddard – The Cabin in the Woods (Mutant
Enemy Productions, Lionsgate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Castle, Mort, and Sam Weller – Shadow Show (HarperCollins)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guignard, Eric J. – Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations (Dark
Moon Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miller, Eric – Hell Comes to <st1:city w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:city> (Big Time Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scioneaux, Mark C., R.J. Cavender, and Robert S. Wilson –
Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology (Cutting Block Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swanson, Stan – Slices of Flesh (Dark Moon Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carroll, Jonathan – Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected
Stories (Subterranean Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Castle, Mort – New Moon on the Water (Dark Regions)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand, Elizabeth – Errantry: Strange Stories (Small Beer
Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hirshberg, Glen – The Janus Tree (Subterranean Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oates, Joyce Carol – Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories
(Ecco)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collings, Michael – Writing Darkness (CreateSpace)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Klinger, Les – The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 (Vertigo)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morton, Lisa – Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
(Reaktion Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Paffenroth, Kim, and John W. Morehead – The Undead and
Theology (Pickwick Publications)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phillips, Kendall R. – Dark Directions: Romero, Craven,
Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film (Southern Illinois University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Addison, Linda, and Stephen M. Wilson – Dark Duet (NECON
eBooks)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boston, Bruce, and Gary William Crawford – Notes from the
Shadow City (Dark Regions Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collings, Michael – A Verse to Horrors (Amazon Digital
Services)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simon, Marge – Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls
(Elektrik Milk Bath Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37410885.post-46398526527627364762013-02-20T19:18:00.003-05:002013-02-20T19:23:53.388-05:00New Review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A nice one (from a faith perspective) - <a href="http://erb.kingdomnow.org/the-undead-and-theology-paffenrothmorehead-eds-review/" target="_blank">of THE UNDEAD AND THEOLOGY!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last paragraph is esp. quotable - "Papers such as the ones presented in <i>The Undead and the
Theology </i>are a bridge of conversation from theology classrooms to what is
intriguing the masses today. When graduates throw up their hands and say 'And
how am I suppose to use this education in the real world?!' (and what seminary
student hasn’t done that?), we have an answer."</span>KPaffenrothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02323273575993522455noreply@blogger.com0