Blake is my newest major freakout. I avoided Blake for years (except the lyric poetry) because I knew this would happen ( Read more... )

I think cities are fascinating. Any cities, although London, Prague, or Chicago have advantages that Boise, Idaho, to pick a city at random, doesn't ( Read more... )

Accidentally, UA may turn out to be a harbinger of the viable RPG publishing model in the new century. Somewhat idealized as follows:

Old: An existing publisher develops a concept in-house, expands it as need be with generic freelancers, and publishes it identically to other projects, into an existing line or schedule, with conventional (or no) ( Read more... )

If you have not read a Tim Powers novel, turn your computer off RIGHT NOW, go to a quality bookstore, purchase and read Declare or Last Call.The rest of the class will wait for you ( Read more... )

Shouldn't Joe Strummer be buried in Westminster Abbey ( Read more... )

Not writing a sonnet here.

However, I've been tempted by Shakespearean projects. I almost had an offer from one publisher for a book on Shakespearean magic, an expansion of my "occult dramaturgy" columns in "Suppressed Transmission".

I've toyed with a pop non-fiction project, My Year With Bill, in which I'd see every Shakespeare performance I ( Read more... )

1. (1727) Histories such as relate the secret affairs and transactions of princes; speaking with too much freedom, or too much sincerity, of the manner and conduct of persons in authority, to allow of their being made public. Also, anecdota.1a. Scandal, rumor, especially about prominent personages ( Read more... )

In addition to my job, house, and deathly pallor, I got my LJ user name from RPGs.

The numinous welcomerain named me "the Prince of Cairo" in her LJ because of my penchant for setting adventures, even whole campaigns, in Cairo. It's not my fault; I have Marion Anderson's excellent Cairo Guidebook for Call of Cthulhu as well as a real Cairo guidebook, the ( Read more... )

In order:

Incontrovertibly so:

Sandy Petersen, Call of Cthulhu

Nigh incontrovertible:

Greg Stolze and John Tynes, Unknown Armies, 2nd Ed.
R. Sean Borgstrom, Nobilis, 2nd Ed.

Open to intelligent disputation:

Jonathan Tweet, Over the Edge
Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein*Hagen, Ars Magica
Greg Stafford, Pendragon
Robin Laws and Greg Stafford, ( Read more... )

This is kind of a catch-all. Like "folklore," it could get tens of subheadings for a more focused picture of my precise interests, but like "folklore," it's probably accurate enough as it is ( Read more... )