Author Archives: JE

Plumbing is the mind-killer. Plumbing is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my plumbing. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye … Continue reading →

1. Vergil’s Facebook page (seen at Rogue Classicism). 2. The Hobbiton & Barchester panel for Flycon, starting at 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time (11 AM Pacific).

The FlyCon chat session was a blast. I stayed on and kibbitzed on Kate Elliott’s, forming a settled conviction that everyone in the world should buy millions of Kate Elliott books.

I’ve been remiss in not noting what SF Scope and my brilliant agent, Michael Kabongo already have: Pyr is taking a second sequel to Blood of Ambrose. (The first sequel, This Crooked Way is due out in Fall 2009.) Does … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post of the week is up, this one a glance at the current nominees for the Nebula in the novelette category, with a lament for absent squid. Possibly worth mentioning again: I’ll be participating in FlyCon this … Continue reading →

I made a resolution that today’s post would not link to a comic or discuss Watchmen in any way. So. I’m batting .500, is how I look at it.

I guess it’s finally time for me to address the issue that’s been sending shockwaves through my flist recently–in fact, through the entire internet: the presence of “99 Luftballons” on the Watchmen soundtrack.

People die. Nations die. But Watchmen jokes go on forever. (Or at least for the rest of the weekend.) [edited to add: the whole Ombudsmen! run on one page here.]

[Seen at Lou Anders’ Bowing to the Future.]

“Life According to Garfield Something Positive CONAN.”