Author Archives: JE

The Agony Column podcast interviews intrepid Pyr editor, Lou Anders, in the wake of Denvention 3. (Audio here.) The Morlockocentric will hear some interesting words about two thirds of the way through the interview, but I was also interested to … Continue reading →

There’s a lively Bittercon discussion of monsters going on. As you know, Bob, monsters are a big deal to me, so you’ll find a comment or two from me tucked away in there.

Rather than mope about dying magazines, I thought I’d post this nifty video of portraits from the Roman-era Mediterranean world. Many of them are encaustic mummy paintings which have a weird alive-but-ghostly quality to them. (Snaffled from David Meadows’ Rogue … Continue reading →

Things from my evening ride on the bike trail. 1.) I raced a bunny. Everything was fine, until my shadow fell across it. Then it seemed to mutter the bunny-equivalent of “OMFG!” and took a sharp right turn into a … Continue reading →

Todd McAulty announced at the Black Gate newsgroup on SFFNet that a free PDF of Black Gate 12 will be available on the website for a limited time. They’re not abandoning print publication, but they are looking toward some kind … Continue reading →

Weird news about pollution and gender imbalance in an Arctic community. Fortunately, that’s a long way away and it could never happen here. [The first report seen at Salon.com’s Broadsheet.]

Thirty nine years ago much of my large and obstreperous birth family was huddled around our little black-and-white TV trying to make sense of the grainy images we saw there. Ostensibly they represented the outside of the LEM and we … Continue reading →

I was going to post a long political screed here, but then it occurred to me that there might be one or two other people on the internet who have that beat covered. And now: this.

My brilliant agent Mike Kabongo (a.k.a. onyxhawke) ran some Strunk up the flagpole this afternoon, but I couldn’t salute it. Strunk: “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a … Continue reading →

I appear before you fresh from having searched the word “fantasy” in a blog-search program. And I have learned two things, one general and one specific. A.) (general) Never do this. B.) (specific) Do not write about BDSM unless you … Continue reading →