Author: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)  Creative Zen 4GB A Little of Your Time - Maroon 5 No One - Alicia Keys Beautiful - Christina Aguilera This Ain't a Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy Strobelite Honey - Black Sheep Say Goodbye - Dave Matthews Band Over You - Daughtry Crooked Ass N**** - 2Pac The Choice is Yours - Black Sheep Youth of the Nation - P.O.D. Gonna be a rough day, it seems! Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Shooting War Anthony Lappe Shooting War posits a world gone mad in the wake of Dubya’s ill-conceived war on terror, delivering some unexpected LOL moments without straying too far from a very serious underlying message. Check out my full review on PopCultureShock. Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Back-to-School 2007 Isaac and India both had their parent-teacher conferences this week, but because I stayed home with them Tuesday and Wednesday as they were sick, Salomé had to attend both meetings solo in the evening.  While I've met both of their primary teachers, she'd only spoken with them over the phone and via email, so it worked out okay, especially since she has the insider's take on what questions to ask beyond "how are they doing?" Both reports were good, with Isaac's teacher raving over his writing, in particular, while India, after some early difficulties, has adapted very well to her new setting. When it comes…

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It's Spindle's penultimate update before the official launch in January and it's the most eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography yet, including the debut of our first column, Mahogany Browne's Coffee & Brooklyn (C&B), and the latest Notable New Yorker interview, Ivan Brandon: Crime Comics Czar. Log on now to check out new poetry, fiction and photos from Patricia Smith, Steven Allan, Michael Cirelli, Kevin Coval, Steven M. Johnson, Adam Kazmierski, Lisa Marie Kelleher, Peggy Landsman and Marie-Elizabeth Mali. Also, sign up for one (or more) of our free enewsletters to receive email udpates from your favorite sections whenever…

There's a great website called fans4writers.com that is trying to organize support for the members of the Writers Guild of America who went on strike this past Monday after negotiations over royalties for usage of their creations in new media vehicles -- ie: re-playing TV episodes and streaming movies online, the sale of digital copies of TV episodes, etc. Philosophically speaking, I'm a union guy first -- except in the case of the PBA which royally screwed over its future members during their last go-round of negotiations with the City -- and as both a writer and an avid fan of movies and TV, the WGA strike is particularly compelling.  fans4writers…