I’m in the process of getting the MONARCHS OF MAYHEM: LR GILES interview posted. Should have it up in another couple of hours.
In the interim I’m listening to a pretty informative audio interview from 2007, Steven Barnes interviewed by Horace Digby. (interview covers books, scifi, comics, martial arts, self improvement, ethnicity, Alan Moore, Batman, Plato, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Marvel Comics, Cinema, Television, Sliders, Alexander the Great, and much more).
Listen here:
(In fact the only problem I have with the interview is how Steven Barnes is introduced. Steven Barnes is one of the most celebrated science fiction writers of his generation. Full stop. How he is introduced is with a modifier that strikes me as being both unnecessary and unthinkingly dismissive. But that aside, an interesting listen)
Also I’m watching the end of Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH, and ‘wow’ what a great film. There’s that moment in THE WILD BUNCH, where the four, guns drawn, are surrounded by an army in shock, everyone frozen, in that pause between heaven and hell.
And Ernest Borgnine into that silence… chuckles, and the gates of hell are opened.
It’s as good a moment of film, as you’ll find.
A movie of brutal violence, that is at its heart.. a romance about the dying of an age.
Anyhow, excuse any slowness in getting the next post up, but it’s… THE WILD BUNCH.
Heroic Times 
http://derricklferguson.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/the-wild-bunch/