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Eric Myers and I will be hosting a four-day workshop in September at 826 Valencia.

Conversations With The World

Taught by Scott Lambridis and Eric Myers
Limited to 12 students, ages 11–14
September 4, 11, 18, & 25
Tuesdays, 6:00–8:00 PM

Just a quick entry this time to let our readers know about a new book out by Omnibucket’s own contributor and regular Ology columnist, Rebecca Brock. Here’s my official take:

Brock’s latest work, ‘Abominations’ is near 250 pages of deftly crafted horror fiction
with a central theme of living (or not) in a world populated by the relentless and hungry undead.

Shouting Fire radio invited yours truly to co-host a radio show hosted by Eric Myers. We played some tunes, and talked about all things Omnibucket and publishing and multimedia, and of course, the upcoming Book of CLAV. The show aired Friday 4/4 at 10am PST, 2PM PST, and 6PM PST.

In October, fellow wordsmythe and creative maestro Eric Myers and I began a monthly creative salon. We just had our second one on Friday November 9th at Eric’s place in the Lower Haight. Marisa Egerstrom joined us, though our fourth current participant Nora Sawyer had to bail last minute. After only two meetings it has already branched out from simply a writing salon towards the multimedia where we evaluated a video piece and a vocal performance, not to mention Angie’s cooking. Pretty damn sweet I must say.

The pieces reviewed:

“Life of the Gallows” short story by Scott Lambridis

I’ll be conducting another writing workshop at 826 Valencia in February. The details are as follows:

The Tale is in the End
Limited to 15 students, ages 11-14
February 5, 12, 19, & 26
Tuesdays, from 6:00-8:00PM

The art of creating compelling characters…by doing them in.

We just don’t have time to list them all, so here is one of the most recent responses from a fellow named Lee.

Lee lives in the UK.
Having seen “Brainchild…a collection of artifacts” in the collection of a friend, he was very interested in knowing how he might obtain a copy. Unfortunately, Brainchild has been sold out for quite some time now.

Nevertheless, Omnibucket scoured the ends of the earth until eventually, we were able to locate and buy back a copy for Lee from a small bookstore in Middle America. The book was sent and here is what Lee had to say:

Dara Naraghi, co-creator of our very own God’s Acre just wrote me with some exciting news.

Dara says:

Aside from the usual daily life and work stuff, I’ve been
quite busy the last few years working on a big project that’s finally paying
off: my first graphic novel is being published this December and will be
available in all bookstores!

LIFELIKE has been in the works for about 2 years now. It started out as a
free weekly webcomic, which you can still read online. It’s a series of

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce the release of my first solo album, Music for Humans.

Click here to access the Music for Humans website.

In a previous entry I mentioned an article that The Other Paper wrote on the underground Columbus Ohio art/music/shenanigans space that the members of Blackcat Revival inhabited and ran.

Well, now I have the actual article to read.

The link to the article is here.

The original blog entry (for background) is here.

I was informed today by Banjo Drill that The Other Paper in Columbus Ohio wrote an article featuring the Bucket. The Bucket was (is?) an underground music-art-playspace that we ran together for a number of years while renting it as the the home of Blackcat Revival - where they wrote all the music for Eleventy Billion Miles Away. See, it all comes full circle in the end.

Regarding our upcoming “Book of CLAV”, we have a few bits of interesting news.

First, we can now show you what the cover will look like, more or less:

We’re in the final production stages, scanning a whole lot of things in and such ‘n’ such. Once the layout is complete we’ll post images and give available dates for pre-order and shipment.

Thanks to FlavorPill for featuring The Writing Is On the Wall in their 268th issue! Here’s what they had to say:

TTA Press posted a review by Peter Tennant today of ‘Brainchild…a collection of artifacts’.

Thanks Pete and Andy! Here’s the review:

“This is the way the world ends. Courtesy of Romero reborn, Shaun of the Dead and a slew of bestselling Horror novels, the coming zombie apocalypse has about it a sense of immediacy that sitting around waiting for peak oil or the polar ice caps to melt just can’t compete with.

And hence this book, the first production off the line from new kid on the block Omnibucket, slim as a supermodel and every bit as drop dead gorgeous, with emphasis on the dead, and the intriguing tag line ‘a collection of artifacts’, but actually what we’re talking about is short stories, articles and artwork, all of them featuring those flesh eating zombies we love to hate. In tone it reminded me of nothing so much as the grounding moments in a Living Dead movie, with news reports coming in over the wire and earnest commentators trying to make sense of it all, while the army shoots first and asks questions later, and all of these snapshots and individual stories, the necessary adjuncts to our suspension of disbelief, interweaving to convey the immediacy of disaster on a global scale and empowering us to think the unthinkable.

Check out Bookgasm’s comparison of Max Brooks’ ‘World War Z’ to Omnibucket’s very own ‘Brainchild…a collection of artifacts‘ :