Calliope contributor Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal is featured in the Writer's Corner at the ever cool What to Wear During An Orange Alert.

And I hear some slacker named Nobius will be interviewed there soon as well. :)

"Open fire on my burning heart." --Real Life

"But the reality is I'm getting away with murder." --Papa Roach

Dust

More than Drones
Your Man Status high
Demands chest beating,
Putting down rivals,
And a maiden pony-tail
Pulled through dIrt.

How GRAND am I?
--legacy--
Boy,
You better
Ask the dust!

I'll get a real update here soon. Been busy. In the meanwhile, in my yearly tradition here's my X-mas list whether you care or not. :)

Flower bulbs (not seeds if possible) that will grow in sun or shade.

Two (or more) starter kits for growing seeds inside to plant outside.

Lowe’s or Home Depot gift card.

SIXX A.M.: The Heroin Diaries (CD)

Border’s gift card.

Megadeth: War Chest

The Melvins: Houdini

Nirvana: Unplugged

William C. Dietz: When All Seems Lost (Book)

William C. Dietz: Logo’s Run (Book)

E.E. Cummings: 100 Selected Poems (or any of his other collections as I have none)

Stan Rice: Red to the Rind (Book)

Peter Milligan: Shade The Changing Man: The Amercan Scream (Graphic Novel)

Neil Gaiman: Angels & Visitations

Neil Gaiman: The Quoteable Sandman

Any of the Grant Morrison Invisible’s collections (preferably #1, Graphic Novels)

Alan Moore: Voice of Fire (Book)

Anthrax: The Sound of White Noise (CD)

Timothy Zahn: Star Wars: Outbound Flight (Book)

Phillip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Book)

In Flames: Clayman (CD) or Soundtrack to Your Escape (CD)

William Gibson: Burning Chrome (Book)

A Perfect Circle: Emotive (CD)

Bruce Lee: Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Book)

Warren Ellis: Crooked Little Vein (Book)

Otep: The Ascension (CD)

Judas Priest: Angel of Retribution

Hatebreed: The Rise of Brutality (CD)

Strapping Young Lad: The New Black (CD)

Guns ‘N Roses: Lies (CD) or Appetite for Destruction (CD)

New Martial Arts Uniform

Concert T-Shirts

An online movie proposal not trailer for the next generation Masters of the Universe movie.

"What if they don’t believe? Will their lack of faith make the faith of God no effect?" --Romans 3:3

"Literary events are theater, not literature." --Tom Bradley

Similar to season three Sci-Fi Pulse is running two minute flash backvideos for the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie Razor.

Over at Unlikely Stories, Tom Bradley teaches us How to Give A Rousing Reading. I've never been able to give a public reading, but as I work on my book I think I'll have to change that.

Upcoming Calliope Nerve contributor David McLean has a new book out A Hunger For Mourning.

Can't wait to get a hold of this one.