I checked in on Stephen Thompson over at Eclectic Micks the other day and saw he’s posted another sequence from our upcoming collaboration.  Still a little early to talk about title/release date, but this pulls the lid off the monster.

Also, crazy compelling article on gravity from Monday’s NY Times. Explanations of gravity have always seemed counterproductive to me, seems like one of those things we gave a name as an illusion of understanding, an aggravating non-answer that stops people from questioning.  So it’s good fun that Dr. Verlinde’s paper pisses off other physicists.  From the layman’s quick synopsis in the article, “Forget curved space or the spooky attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder.” So entropy/chaos leads to the force that makes spheres?  Seems perfectly counterintuitive.

S&MAN soundtrackers Darin Grey and Glenn Kotche, AKA On Fillmore, will be performing on Thursday, July 15 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.  A little sample below from their latest album, Extended Vacation, which is on constant enough rotation while I'm writing to creep out my family.

ON WRITING, A Publication of the Writers Guild of America, East A conversation between SESAME STREET writers Joey Mazzarino and Norman Stiles, recorded in New York City - September 2009 MAZZARINO: He noticed that his kid got up one morning and was just staring at a test pattern on TV-- because in those days in the early morning that's all there was. STILES: →

I talked to Chris Vander Kaay over at Anatomy of Fear a few weeks back about The Burrowers. The episode's live and available via iTunes or their blog. Also, just re-watched SUMMER OF SAM. Ten years later it still looks more modern and passionate than the vast majority of today's studio releases. Hard not to feel a little studio-directed schadenfreude at →

My friends and co-conspirators Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid have gathered stories from me and a bunch of horror-minded folks for a series of radio plays in the tradition of Boris Karloff and Orson Welles. They should start rolling out around Halloween.  You can see the whole press release here. The story I wrote for them was inspired by thirteen months →

Okay, just about have things in shape here, should start posting regular thoughts soon.  About a week ago I was cleaning the blood out of the sink and chewing over some half-formed navel-gazy thoughts, largely about genre and copyright, wishing I had an outlet for them. And then I remembered that I have a blog.  So get ready for inane →

This is one of those "pardon our appearance" emails. Took a blog hiatus and came back to discover that Blogger got lame. Switching to WordPress, and things'll be ugly for a little bit.

The S&MAN page is live at UnionDocs if you want to pre-order tickets.And I noticed the comments about where to purchase/see the movie if you're not in NY this weekend. Until it gets a commercial release ("soon," my distributor has been promising for two years), I'm instituting a barter policy. Email me (jt at softfordigging dot com) for my →

Nice mention of S&Man (sandman) over at Vanity Fair today-- "I find it hard to believe that Hollywood always identifies and promotes the highest-quality work. The best scary movie I’ve seen this year, for instance, J. T. Petty’sS&Man (2006), has never received a wide release and remains nearly impossible to find in video or on the big screen. "

UnionDocs is going to be screening S&MAN (Sandman) on Sunday, November 29th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I'm going to be there, along with Erik and Bill Zebub, which should make for the kind of post-screening Q&A we'd tell our grandchildren about if not for consideration of their healthy upbringing. Save the date and use this as an excuse to skip →