I have accidentally stumbled onto an extraordinarily recondite sub-sub-genre: novels based on Henry James' The Aspern Papers. Short novel short: Man desperate to get the lost love letters of the poet Jeffrey Aspern (the guy who no doubt was Percy Bysshe Shelley in the world of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) visits his aging mistress, is lured ( Read more... )

Direct all scorn and contumely (or praise and approbation) to robin_d_laws, who is if not the Onlie Begetter the Most Recent and Insistent Begetter, but I am on Twitter ( Read more... )

* I'm off to BookExpo in L.A. tomorrow, so ironically my recent posting drought will likely be broken on the road, with plenty of gloating to boot, if Thoth smiles upon me.

* In the meantime, I should note that drivingblind has tossed me the keys to the Impala and set me loose on Archer Avenue at midnight: I'm signed on to write the "Occult Chicago" chapter ( Read more... )

So I've just gotten out of bed and I'm walking along the hallway when I feel something under my bare feet and look down. There's a little pile of dust and crud on the carpet, with two pennies in it ( Read more... )

Perhaps it's just me, but as winter draws down upon us it seems like it's time to do another one of those long, linked series of LJ posts the kids love these days. You may recall our Eliptony Core Sample from last year, or if you're a Loyal Reader from way back, the 33 Interests in 100 Words series from near the very dawn of this LJ. They're always ( Read more... )

Although it's tempting to build a wonderful little Memory Palace out of the interest list section of my LJ profile, I manage to resist the temptation to add "airships, alexander the great, bestiaries, bruce springsteen, climate history, elizabeth i, espionage, filibustering, flashman, g k chesterton, grant morrison, hellenistic era, jane austen, ( Read more... )

Or two Fridays behind myself, rather. As jovianconsensus notes, that was the day that he and I and gnosticpi went to Doc to see Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

Because gnosticpi and I had tried, and tried, and if I'm not mistaken, tried, to see it at the theater, and had by one or another miscarriage of fate been thwarted, we assumed that seeing it at Doc would be very ( Read more... )

I apparently now have a Wikipedia entry. And no, I didn't write it myself. What kind of ego-besotted glory-hound do you take me for?

Don't answer that.

Sudden family developments call me and mollpeartree to Oklahoma City tomorrow; I will have only sporadic Net access, and probably no reliable email while I'm there, so it's probably time to work on board game designs ( Read more... )

Normally, I don't meme, but when both mollpeartree and lhn pick up and then throw down the gauntlet hurled by ladytiamat, then I am forced to respond. Don't say you weren't warned.

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:

Man on Fire: the Paul McCartney Anthology. A career retrospective from the AH in which Paul McCartney never joined "The ( Read more... )