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Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:49:40 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Five Years Removed:
Charles said, "Well, here’s a surprise: this is a blog entry. I’ve just moved and am going through notebooks and many other things, sorting out my life in this new house, and I have rediscovered a blue notebook with the cover done up in a collage. Part..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:39:05 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Pills, Notebooks, Marketing Schemes, Genius!:
Charles said, ""The Boy Himself" by Frederic Goupil He was happier then, in a way, taking the anti-depressants the psychiatrist had prescribed, though he took them begrudgingly, irritated at having to mask his true genius, his true discontent with and,..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:09:09 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled New Year, New Posts:
Charles said, "This blog has been dead. It’s tentative epitaph was written over at Atmospheric Games, which is an entirely different sort of place than this. I’ll be updating Atmospheric Games with maps for role-playing games, and some other nonsense...." more
Sunday, July 4, 2010 10:33:40 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Expunged from Wikipedia: Tool-Using Platypi:
Charles said, "Tools allow you to build things. They are the things human culture is made of. Animals for the most part do not use tools. An argument might be made for exceptional animals such as the tool-using platypus of ancient South America. This mammal was..." more
Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:59:38 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Year Zero Collective and Mullwiler:
Charles said, "I recently joined the Year Zero Writers collective, where I’ll be uploading pieces of a longer, untitled work-in-progress, which I will simply call Mullwiler until a more suitable title presents itself. The first three sections of Mullwiler..." more
Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:59:38 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled The Baptismal Accident of Young Mullwiler:
Charles said, "“Here I stand, on nothing. My principles are all being undermined by the vast waste of consumer culture. In this, the decline of western civilization, could it be that your most astute children, smarter and wiser than you, are being crushed..." more
Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:59:38 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Robotic Doubts:
Charles said, "At age 15, like all boys in small cities in Carolina in 1991, Henry was given license to drive. He didn’t have to request it; it just was, at least to Henry that’s how it seemed. The world seemed to move around him like scenery being..." more
Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:59:38 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Respect:
Charles said, "One July day, Henry wandered through the cobblestone streets of his hometown, looking for work. He wasn’t exactly sure what kind of work he wanted to do, but he knew it had to do with the words and ideas rummaging around in his head, keeping him..." more
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:32:46 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Weird Fiction Wednesday 2:
Charles said, "Beyond the Nest of Pestilence The Nest The ogre hole had been clean. The nest of pestilence was not. A shockwave slowly crawled out from the nest; like a time-lapse film image of decay, it spread. The Things that the Nest Spawned They were not..." more
Monday, May 10, 2010 9:51:59 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Monstrous Monday 1:
Charles said, "This was entered into a proposed monster design contest in 2009. The contest has never panned out, so I thought I’d kick off my own “Monstrous Mondays” with this D&D 3.x critter. SMOAT “The digestive organs of the smoat are..." more
Monday, May 10, 2010 9:51:58 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Tumblr Tuesday 2:
Charles said, "“For those who benefit from it, progress is about improving their material lifestyle at the expense of those they enslave, steal from, or otherwise exploit. For everyone else, it is about loss.” -Derrick Jensen, “High on Progress”, Orion..." more
Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:59:25 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Career vs. Work:
Charles said, "On Not Having a Career I think more people should not have careers. If you don’t have a career, you will likely be able to widen your interests and not specialize in one thing. You can become a well-rounded human being or even a..." more
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 1:15:27 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Weird Fiction Wednesday 1:
Charles said, "Bad Things The Power Trio A world percolated in front of Sid. He stood back and looked at it. Small judgments were being made in corners of the world. Things that disagreed rubbed against each other. Things that agreed also rubbed against each..." more
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:10:40 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Tumblr Tuesday:
Charles said, " My Wife vs. Gregor Samsa We have a cockroach or three in our house, which I will simply refer to from here on out as “the cockroach”. The other night while my wife and I were reading on the couch, I was returning from the bathroom and saw..." more
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 5:44:40 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Blog Revitalization: The Plan:
Charles said, "I’m bringing some structure to Fiercely Interdependent. The following weekly schedule is going into effect immediately in order to encourage me to work publicly on my diverse spread of interests: Monstrous Mondays will showcase original..." more
Monday, April 5, 2010 1:09:35 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Update:
Charles said, "I’ve neglected my blog. Strangely enough, people appear to still be checking in from time to time. A while back, I wrote a rather rambly post about the publishing industry and proposed an alternate idea, publishing communities. Since then,..." more
Friday, February 26, 2010 12:10:21 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Book Review: The First Thing and the Last by Allan G. Johnson:
Charles said, "This debut novel by Allan G. Johnson (sociologist and author of Privilege, Power, and Difference and The Gender Knot) is a wonderful study of violent abuse and its effects on an individual’s mind, body, and spirit. Johnson captures our..." more
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 9:42:40 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled On Beauty:
Charles said, "Note: In putting the final touches on The Sentiments, I came across this short essay, “On Beauty”, and considered tacking it on the end of the collection. Knowing that it would be somewhat of an anomaly, as it is an essay, not a short..." more
Monday, December 21, 2009 8:56:27 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Latest Illustration from The Sentiments collection: “Progress”:
Charles said, "This illustration goes along with the “Progress” story in the forthcoming Sentiments collection. I think it does the trick: Click on the image to be taken to deviantart, where you can buy prints, puzzles, mugs, coasters, mouse pads, and..." more
Friday, December 11, 2009 12:11:42 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled On Pathologizing Gender, or Not:
Charles said, "This is my first post on F.I. about transgender issues and gender norms; it comes as a response to a note posted on facebook last night by Helen Boyd, which in turn was a response to a short opinion piece written by Ronald Gold and posted at the..." more
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:31:24 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Publishing Industry? I’ll Pass, but I’ll take an Extra Helping of Publishing Communities, Please.:
Charles said, " Understanding Media, first published in 1964, focuses on the media effects that permeate society and culture, but McLuhan’s starting point is always the individual, because he defines media as technological extensions of the body. -from Terence..." more
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 9:50:26 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Presenting: Creatheater:
Charles said, "Leftunder Books has begun work on an open-source role-playing game: Creatheater is intended as the first step in developing an original fantasy role-playing game. This game takes its inspiration from the RPGs of the late 1970s and ’80s,..." more
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:08:22 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Quiet Settles into Leftunder Land: a Journal Entry from the Interior Wiring of the Brand:
Charles said, "I’ve been fading into the background of our farmhouse lately, disconnecting the USB cable from the back of my neck and contemplating my next move. Watching the stats of Fiercely Interdependent peak and flatline and peak again, this time with a..." more
Friday, November 6, 2009 10:32:03 AM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Volcanic Landscape (Again):
Charles said, "Here’s the latest and perhaps last version of the “Volcanic Landscape” piece I’ve been working on for Illustrator’s Workshop. As of now, I’ve taken it off my drawing/painting board and have moved onto actually..." more
Monday, April 30, 2012 4:23:20 PM
Charles Dickey wrote a blog post titled Fiercely Interdependent is Defunct:
Charles said, "This blog is no longer being updated. Those interested in the work of Charles Dickey, writer and occasional dabbler in music and visual art, should mosey on over to charlesdickey.com, which is updated weekly. Filed under: fantasy, fiction, horror,..." more