Category: Photos

  • Modern Ruins

    One of my favorite sites on the internet these days is Shaun O’Boyle’s Modern Ruins.  Full of photographic essays about places whose industries, way of life, or some other historical aspect, has fallen into ruin, it’s a beautiful way to preserve a particular swath of our cultural memory.  My favorite is the Big Steel collection,…

  • Obama at YSU

    Obama came to Youngstown State University to speak to a crowd of 6000 today. I was down in the pit with a couple of friends, about ten feet from the stage, and had a good view of him. Took some pictures (and also some video, but I held the camera up and down instead of…

  • Autumn and Early Winter in my hood

    Fall didn’t last nearly long enough, if you ask me. I love these colors, and miss them already. This little guy was living in my attic. I chased him out and had words with him one day while he clung to the side of my house and barked at me. Apparently I had invaded *his*…

  • Echoes

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNETcWhURs] I found this video on YouTube tonight. It’s made by a young woman named Megan in a nearby city. She read One for Sorrow and has taken photos as well as quotes from the book and set them to music by The Bravery. The song totally rocks. Megan says in the beginning of the…

  • Book Launch Photos

    Some pics from the launch party are now in my flickr account. You can go there by clicking on “More Pics” link in the flickr box in the sidebar. These are just a few. I’m waiting to get a ton from one of the artists who was taking pictures all evening. So for now, here…

  • More Happy Things

    First: The finished copy of the book came today! Me acting like a grade school boy with his spelling bee award or something to that effect. And second: The Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts has its Summer YA issue live now. They’ve got fantastic stories, poetry, art and essays over there, so go…

  • Summer Festival of the Arts

    This weekend was Youngstown’s Summer Festival of the Arts. (Pictures in my flickr, just click on the sidebar pics to see them all). It was held on YSU’s campus. I hadn’t been to the festival in years. Last year I’d been at Readercon in Boston when it was held, and missed it. I was glad…

  • Two links

    Just so you know, Jeff Vandermeer has a new website that looks pretty damned cool. And if you haven’t seen the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts’s “Then and Now” website commemorating their twentieth anniversary, check it out.  It has great photos of writers and artists and editors who are part of the Endicott Circle, myself…

  • Moving in

    I am moved into a new apartment (same building, now on the second floor), which is pretty damned big and cool and well-decorated (thanks to Tony–I’m so not an interior design oriented person).  Pictures of the new place in the flickr box on the sidebar.  Go and admire my new office and bedroom and living…

  • Cafes of Youngstown (Updated)

    During winter I don’t like to leave my apartment unless I have to–I was born a summer child, so although I enjoy the Christmastime mood of the beginning of winter, I prefer warmth and light. So for those winter months, I write at home a lot. In Spring, Summer and Fall, though, I like to…