The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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I was totally going to honor this momentous occasion with a deep, impassioned post about blogging these, wow, last ten years + but, darn it, I wanted to share some more book stuff so that shall have to wait. Odds are it'd just be stuff I have already said anyway. HA. I have had an awful… Continue reading Woo! 500 posts. Woo…And Some Book Stuffs!
I am in the midst of the most un-fun part of the book process, at least for me, and that's laying it out. Thankfully I have an awesome girlfriend that knows her way around laying my books out who has been hard at work on it but it is for sure not a glamorous job.… Continue reading Laying It All Out
Perspective Maybe there is something more to the Biblical story of Lot’s wife than we always realize. Something perhaps not intended but which is there just the same. Looking over one’s shoulder back to the past can be a dangerous, sometimes deadly thing. There is glamour to the past, a haze that makes you forget… Continue reading Perspective
It never ceases to amuse me when i do book events and get placed near uppity writers of self help or bios or whatever and they gimme the stink eye as if i am scaring customers off. Oh, people. So caught up in feigning what a pro writer should be but never getting the community… Continue reading Living Down to Expectations
Hey there Lords and Ladies of Awesomeland. I am here to tell you that I am going to be part of a pretty rad event here in Flint and if you're into books and in the general sorta vicinity you should come out. For reals. I mean, where else can you pick up the WHOLE… Continue reading Booky Business
There is something about horror, extreme horror, that plays a bit like a classic gross out joke. Oh, you know the kind, the baby in blender sorta jokes that kids tell each other on the bus ride home. The sorta jokes that you tell when an adult isn’t around because you know they won’t… Continue reading The Horror Movie As Gross-Out Joke
Horror, at its heart, is about the war at the base of human existence, the war of evolution and instinct. Evolution tells us we have to keep moving forward because we have no choice, we must move forward to survive but instinct warns us to be wary of moving ahead too quickly because there are… Continue reading Taking Back Horror
There's a lesson you need to learn, and learn quickly, as you go out and start doing art shows, book shows, conventions, or get involved in putting together events - the need to reign it in. What you find, in all of those scenarios, is that you are entering a world that while new to… Continue reading Reign It In
The funny thing about Truth, as I have mentioned in the past, is that it’s always changing, always evolving and is many times more about the feeling and not the fact. And that’s fine. We are emotional beings and who we are is always changing and as that changes our perceptions will change as well. … Continue reading Somewhere In The Middle
Two posts in one day? Outrageous. YET TRUE! So I got a funny letter in the mail the other day from my collegiate alma mater. Now, I have never been close with either my high school or the colleges I attended. I stayed away from the high school because I didn’t enjoy my time… Continue reading Asking Too Much
I think one of the harder things to do not just as an arty person but as a person in general is to know to say 'when' and to back away from a project. Most of us hate to admit defeat and we hate the idea that something can get the better of us but… Continue reading Knowing When to Say When
There is something that we tend to forget in our modern world of safe, mass consumptive art. Our world of art for the masses. We forget that art is dangerous. That at its heart, art is barely restrained chaos. Is a thing with teeth that, while usually tamed, can bite. I need to bring up… Continue reading Dangerous Arts
I think it's safe for a writer to say that it's pretty much ALWAYS frustrating when you are trying to get your name and work out there. It's not there is no 'easy' way because I think if you're willing to pursue a dream you get over the 'easy' aspect of it pretty quickly. Easy… Continue reading Handling the Business
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 