I Need Your Help, Red Room Authors and Members...

steven_eks — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:33:05 -0700

Hi, my name is Steve Ekstrom--I write comic books. Currently, my webcomic, THE ARES IMPERATIVE is competing for a publication contract on ZUDA. ZUDA is DC Comics' webcomics imprint. If we receive enough votes by the end of the month we will be able to publish the remaining 52 pages of our 60 page story...and make money for it.I've been a member of Red Room since the launch--and I post here ...

Music Review: Calling All Stars Rocks!

steven_eks — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:17:24 -0700

Long time no Red Room Blog!Been busy...but check out my newest review over at Shotgun Reviews.Calling All Stars is must-listen music!Steve

My Preview/Review of Halloween: 30 Years of Terror from Devil's Due

steven_eks — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:49:13 -0700

Howdy-doo Red Room Readers!Just wanted to share in my love for John Carpenter's Halloween by posting my advanced review to Halloween: 30 Years of Terror from Devil's Due Publishing. I've gotten to know Halloween writer Stefan Hutchinson very well over the past 8 months--and he's really making waves in the Halloween mythos with rock-solid storytelling that's relevant to the movies in the ...

Holy Crap!!! "Breakfast" gets the reprint rub in Negative Burn #20

steven_eks — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:28:25 -0700

I have to admit--it's pretty amazing when you get to hold a physical copy of something you created when it hits shelves. I'm in San Diego--and the store, Comickazee, where I was picking up something for my weekly Wednesday "fix" had a couple copies of the book.I bought one...for my Dad. And the owner of the store, who was really awesome, let me sign the other copy for him.Maybe I'm ...

Why you should buy GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE on JULY 8th.

steven_eks — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:51:48 -0700

Recently, I did a book review covering Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse from Touchstone. Currently, he's one of three writers who are going to be taking the reigns of Marvel's Punisher MAX title after Garth Ennis leaves the title. This guy is the real deal, folks. Check out some press on the book. Here's an excerpt of the book from Simon & Schuster. Oh, and here's a ...

06/24/08: New Poem "Her Lurid Affair"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:20:17 -0700

This is a really cool piece I did in college--it's a "third party" experiment. Basically I took a "second party" experiment and took it a step farther...what's the experiment about, Steve?!? FFS...Essentially, someone wrote a poem in first person...another person reads it and writes a response in second person based on the interpretation of the data in the first piece. Well, ...

06/24/08: New Poem "nyctalopia"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:03:21 -0700

I love exploring my darker side--this piece could have the alternate title "Why Steve should never eat pizza late at night and fall asleep after looking at naughty XXX websites."Just kidding...no, no...not really. (sigh)Read on, reader! nyctalopia intrusive, evil hour,an auger against all;circadian rhythmsdissipating tenebrous vim, defiant, adjacentto the natural ...

06/24/08: New Poem - "Circumlocution"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:52:14 -0700

I wrote this for some girl a long time ago--and I gave it to her and I don't think she ever really appreciated it...probably explains why I made a better choice and went with "old Faithful" (you know who you are :B)It's still a really good poem though--and I even cock-block one of my friends in it with because he was too cheap to buy this girl roses...live and learn, right?Fun ...

06/24/08 - New Poem: An Elegy Made in Good Faith

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:40:26 -0700

This was the poem that I wrote for my Grandmother, Foy Bragg, before she passed away from lung cancer in 2006. Basically, this poem became her eulogy at her funeral--easily one of my best pieces.I miss her a lot.If you smoke--fucking quit already--there are people who love you and don't want to watch you suffer.Enough of me on my soapbox... An Elegy Made in Good FaithI am caught somewhere ...

06/24/08: New Poem - A Sad Clown on January 22nd, 2002

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:27:31 -0700

Wow, dug this one out of a box--what a difference "NOT DRINKING SO MUCH" makes. Oh, like you don't find sad clowns interesting--shut up.Enjoy! A Sad Clown on January 14th, 2002 His day was like the rest of them,a slewing of raindrops drizzlingstaccato through his brokenopen driver's side window hole; a series of wringing phone calls,each its own apology. ...

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 6 of 6: "The Pop-Up Book"

steven_eks — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:02:31 -0700

Yeah, this is my last piece of poetry I promise to subject you to (FOR NOW...) and this one is a doozy.It's reflection about the first hard-on I remembered getting when I was five years old...and how it terrified me.'Nuff said, right?Thanks for taking the time. The Pop-Up Book Oh my goodness! I don't feel so good,there is a discomfort I can't locate-it is a place I'm not supposed ...

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 5 of 6: "The Molt of a Man Ablaze"

steven_eks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:47:50 -0700

I know--these things are awful, aren't they? With Tags like "self-loathing" "alcoholism" and "drug use"--what can you do, right? Well, this was a lot worse in older versions--I really pared it down quite a bit and tried to use more scientific jargon to get the physical process of weight gain embedded in the backs of your minds.Nothing like a little mental imagery ...

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 4 of 6: "acciaccatura"

steven_eks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:47:36 -0700

Here we are--part 4 of my 6 piece poetry submission to "The New Yorker" magazine. I'm not a big fan of abstract and unorthodox usage of the page when it comes to writing poems--but this was one of those pieces where I had this incredibly vivid dream...that was completely all over the place...and I had to somehow distill the randomness into the writing so I just started tabbing all over ...

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 3 of 6: "bellezza, the nonce mango"

steven_eks — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:05:37 -0700

Oh oh oh--we've reached the "hump" of my 6 piece submission to "The New Yorker" last November. I hope you enjoy this piece; I consider this to be an "ambitious" piece from my body of work.I swear, I'm not a pervert--I'm just consumed by intimacy and science and how these two things make for strange bedfellows at times.Enjoy! bellezza, the nonce mango under my ...

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 2 of 6: 'I May Never Be Your Stanley Kowalski'

steven_eks — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:32:26 -0700

Here we go! Installment two of a six part series of my recent submission to The New Yorker.Little backstory: I was in my friend's bathroom--taking care of business--and I noticed his his stack of TNY magazines on the top of his toilet (see? you thought i was going '#2'...freak, but I digress...) and I flipped through several of them to see what kind of poetry gets printed in the almight TNY ...