Buttons Are Everywhere

Koumpounophobia HD - YouTube:

Losing It in the Golden Groves

The Chronicle Review: "Everything distracts me. Being interested in something has become unmoored from my ability to attend to it. Ambient noise, intrusive trivial thoughts, e-mail, stock prices, Green Bay Packer blogs (Green Bay was my hometown), variously and predictably plague me. Ambient quiet is distracting too, and sent me to the Internet to buy a white-noise machine. I interrupted the writing of this paragraph to play a game of Solitaire, and then when I lost, I allowed myself to play until I won, and then one more in case I won two in a row, and then I kept on until I won two in a row."

Injustice of the Planet of the Apes

Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy? | Wired Science | Wired.com: "After witnessing this injustice, the monkeys earning cucumbers went on strike. Some started throwing their cucumbers at the scientists; the vast majority just stopped collecting pebbles. The capuchin economy ground to a halt."

Put On Your Beret, Light A Gauloise, And Here We Go...

Playing D&D with Pornstars: "So I was walking around Montreal today, where everything is French, and I realized that the frequent inability of the garage rockers of DIY D&D and the prog rockers of story-games and other forms of aggressive new-schoolery to understand what each other are on about isn't just a philosophy of gaming thing. It's a philosophy thing. A French philosophy thing, to be specific."

I’m Not Entirely Sure He Knows What That Is

Penny Arcade:

Denial of Death

ESPN.com - E-ticket: "SWIFT CURRENT, Saskatchewan — Dec. 30, 2006. Fans with gray in their hair remember the day the Swift Current Broncos mounted the display on the back wall of the hockey arena's lobby — sweaters behind glass and framed along with these photos of four players who last skated in this arena precisely 20 years and one day ago."

Are You My Mother?

The Call of Cthulhu Cover by ~DrFaustusAU:

Red States, Blue States, Yellow States

The Pop vs. Soda Page:

The Nameless Dread

Illuminations and Other Stuff:

Firewood for Hell

Jinn: Born of fire | The Economist: "THERE is a cleft in a stone hill outside Qardho, in northern Somalia, which even the hardest gunmen and frankincense merchants avoid. In the cool dark, out of the bleached sunshine, there is a pit, a kind of Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole, which is said to swirl down into the world of jinn. Locals say jinn—genies, that is—fade in and out above the pit. Sometimes they shift into forms of ostriches and run out over the desert scrub"

Welcome to the Lost World

Fanzing 0 - January 2001 - Introduction to the Warlord: 


"In the savage world of Skartaris, life is a constant struggle for survival. Here, beneath an unblinking orb of eternal sunlight, one simple law prevails: if you let your guard down for an instant you will soon be very dead.


The beauty of The Warlord was its unpredictability. It turned the conventional sword and sorcery on its head. It did not give up its secrets easily, and 25 years later, the origin of Skartaris is still unknown, having stood against the pawing of fan boys who can't keep a good mystery a mystery."

Voracious fleeting and elusive and peripheral

Shatner Of The Mount by Fall On Your Sword - YouTube:

Don't publish books that look like crap

Take pride in your eBook formatting :Guido Henkel: "You have labored over your book for months, maybe even years, you have read and re-read it countless times, cleaned out typos and grammatical errors, massaged the style and worked on the structure, grinding away in the wee hours of the night alongside holding a daytime job and maybe having a family. You did not get here just to break the first cardinal rule of book publishing:

Don’t get sloppy on the home stretch! It will reflect poorly on your work."

The evil of science fiction? It makes you love freedom too much

The Smart Set: Paperback Politics - August 5, 2011: "If the zeitgeist has a face, it supposedly belongs to Ayn Rand and her capitalist philosophy of Objectivism... There is another writer whose political and philosophical influence is finally being felt in the public sphere. You may have read one of his books as a child. His name is Robert A. Heinlein, and he wrote science fiction. He was a libertarian enamored of military might, a conservative who championed free love. His heroes are certainly competent. They're also folks who hack the systems in which they live, not elitists who abandon a corrupt world full of moochers and looters to worship the dollar as an end unto itself. And unlike Rand, most of Heinlein’s work is actually readable."

Goodbye to the old blog...

I'll spend a little time linking to some older things. Not much in the mood to write.