6:13 PM (0 comments)
Attention on deck--new MC Frontalot track inbound. Expected arrival is on Monday...

3:25 AM (0 comments)
Stories from the frontiers of science: How the cookie crumbles.

1:43 PM (0 comments)
Fans of Big Trouble in Little China can now go over to the Wing Kong Exchange and order their own Jack Burton T-Shirt. Browse around the Exchange for a while and Big Trouble fans will find all kinds of goodness from an emulation of the C64 BTiLC game to a reasonably detailed FAQ that explains the connections between Jack Burton and Buckaroo Banzai...and the meeting that almost was.

12:39 PM (0 comments)
"The Actor shall throw two ten-sided dice & add thirty-nine to obtain the Persona's amount of Rage.

He shall throw two ten-sided dice & add thirty-nine to obtain the Persona's amount of Despair.

He shall throw one ten-sided die & add fifteen to obtain the Persona's Oldness. Unless some special Problem , this is exactly the Persona's Age .

Then the Actor shall throw one ten-sided die & divide by two (round up * ). This is how many Problems his Persona has.

Via Metafilter, it's the Wuthering Heights RPG.

7:56 PM (0 comments)
Jon commented the other day that I hadn't updated my photos in a while. He was right. GenCon, a trip to the Fair, going up to my folks' cabin, the Madison Blues Festival, and a ton of pictures taken around the office were all still waiting on my camera. As per usual, I provide ten photos for your enjoyment and/or toleration. As a bonus, the inset at left is part of the glass art from the "psychic palm reader" that once just about electrocuted me.

6:21 PM (0 comments)
Old news, but I finally stumbled across it: a study by Microdoc News suggests blogs aren't clogging Google results after all.

9:56 AM (0 comments)
"(The) one Mark Twain book with no words in it was probably his most lucrative: according to an item in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8 June 1885), he had made $200,000 from all his other books, and $50,000 from the scrapbook alone."

Some pictures and a (very) short history of the Mark Twain Patent Scrap-Book. From the same site, materials given to book agents selling Twain door to door in the nineteenth century: SUCCESS IS CERTAIN IF ABOVE RULES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE FOLLOWED

3:13 PM (0 comments)
Just hours after wrapping up the first draft of my latest writing project, one from the past--completed almost two years ago--is finally coming out in dead-tree form!

Kingdoms of the Sword and Stars will be showing up in stores this week! It's a book! It has a fantastic Larry Elmore cover! I'm haunting my local game stores waiting to see a copy for myself...

2:19 AM (0 comments)
Various web forums have spent the weekend poking chinks in the armor of the Orson Welles Batman film story. Items mentioned on AICN Talkbalks and the Ellison Webderland message board:

- There's no record of any Lionel Hutton writing such a book
- The Riddler wasn't even *created* until 1948
- Between The Stranger and The Lady of Shanghai, Welles spent a great deal of time and energy on his Around the World in 80 Days stage play, not to mention his radio work
- Several of the actors mentioned had contracts with other studios (not to mention another studio which had the Batman film rights in the 40's)
- Peter Bagdanovich did a very meticulous interview with Welles regarding his career, including his various unfinished projects; it seems very unlikely that he wouldn't have mentioned this

It'll be very interesting to see what Millar does with the furor he's stirred up.