Recork the champagne, folks. So we thought we had a nice new neologism--it's normally a good sign writing-wise when we find one--and the...

Boxing day, huh? Well, anybody who knows a bit about Michael's work shouldn't be surprised that his play unfolds as a drawing-roo...

Our friend   Timothy Jay Smith , who lives 25 miles to the east, in Nice, just posted a moon-rise picture on Facebook. We can't help it,...

Cool folks, we have a short story in Best Gay Erotica of the Year (IV) which is out now, published by Cleis Press, the notorious imprint....

This is a photo from my afternoon walk. Friends of this blog will know that we live in Le Trayas, not far from Cannes, in a settlement of 20...

Michael and his handsome alter ego, John W. King, started the Verse Repair Movement a month ago on Gay Flash Fiction , and they're up...

Cool, folks, we're on Amos Lassen's influential The best of LGBT Fiction 2018 list with The Fountain of Geneva . TADA. "...

Take this (from yesterday's The Independent ). It sounds like something from the Onion, but it's real: Sex robot conference c...

Update:   Perhaps we've underestimated Labour (see last paragraph below). Gaby Hinsliff writes in The Guardian : But politics is all ...

Michael was supposedly working on the sequel to "This Is Heaven," then he was working on a novel about Jamie & Dex, an...

You know, we intend to move to Nazaré, located between Porto and Lisbon on the Atlantic Coast. This year, in January, it recorded the high...

Amos Lassen Cool, folks, there's a new review of "The Fountain" out, and it's by LGBT-lit-authority Amos Lassen. He ...

(not quite true, but anyhow:)

...my father said at least once per day, and here we have another proof---if needed---in Donald Trump's tweet of today yesterday, whi...

Who said this about whom: " They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them... " (a) Robert S. Muell...

...and you live in France, and you have a Dutch passport, and it's late November... Photo (as always) by Jason Yoon ...you have t...

You need to know a little bit about American politics for this one: Go and vote your ass off!

Eventually, after a month and a half, we went back home. It took three days. Michael is fairly exhausted. We spent the second night in Carca...

So, we went to Coimbra. This is the central square of the university, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the world.