Read My Story!

First things first:  read my short story Hands on Danse Macabre!

I had composed a relatively compact entry on the nature of privacy and its importance to a free society.  However, before I could put in all those crafty hotlinks I love so well, I got an email confirming that my short story Hands had been posted to Danse Macabre literary e-zine.

Rather than suggest that anyone read two large chunks of my text in the middle of their workday, I will simply request that all you who regularly read this blog please bop on over to DM and have a look.  Hopefully, the nice editorial staff there went through the trouble of correcting my grammar and spelling, but if not, just consider any mistakes to be "chase" defects that make the story more collectible. 

Having said all this, I still want to make a footnote here regarding the secret ACTA negotiations, in which the US is taking part.  It is broad in scope and unabashed in its preference of large corporate interests, and in so being is a fine example of someone, somewhere, deciding that you've just got too much damned liberty, and need to be monitored for your own good.   If reading big huge pieces of international copyright treaties isn't your bag, baby, skip ahead to the criticisms on the wiki article, or read the ongoing commentary by Michael Geist.

Sorry, not a funny post.  Here's my hero, doing what he does best.