Posted by Barry Lyga | Apr 1, 2011 | This Week in Rejection!
This one is tough for me to place because there are no identifying marks on it at all. But given that Night Cry magazine only lasted for a couple of years in the mid-eighties, I would have to have been 14/15 or so at the time of...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Mar 30, 2011 | Wednesday Warren
Any fool can swear. It takes true genius, though, to turn vulgarity into poignancy, a trick Warren Zevon manages with the song, “My Shit’s Fucked Up,” from the album Life’ll Kill Ya. iTunes album...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Mar 28, 2011 | Memory Monday
Today: Because no matter what you did to celebrate the Bicentennial, it can’t possibly compare to Superman going back in time to make sure the Declaration of Independence is placed safely on the proper table for its...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Mar 25, 2011 | This Week in Rejection!
A little context for this one… Still a young ‘un (probably 13 or 14), I sent off my second-ever short story to TSR’s Amazing Stories magazine. The story was your basic haunted house tale. I think I tried to put...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Mar 23, 2011 | Wednesday Warren
I love songs that have their own mythology to them, songs that imply a rich backstory, but proceed in medias reslike great epics. “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” from Warren Zevon’s brilliant...
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