Spam

I have never been plagued by spam before. Now it seems it's getting worse. I may have to make comments section harder to use. If so, I'm very sorry. I'll monitor it.

-Chrispy.

Joe Pulver's New Book

Lady L's blog has notes on Joe Pulver's new book ... For Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. 'Blood Will Have Its Season' : Short Bursts of Fury. Jagged. Lurid. Hard-boiled.

All of these terms describe the writing of Joseph S. Pulver Sr. His recent collection, Blood Will Have Its Season, is testament to the power of the written word

More here: Lady Lovecraft's Blog

[P.S. I am still working on Joe's review! Thanks for being patient. Soon.]

A Lovecraftian Disaster

I was recently reading my copy of Lovecraft Letters, the Derleth's Arkham edition trying to brush on on his relationship with Harry Houdini and Henneberger, and multitasking. I was also eating with Mrs. Chris in front of the television while wtaching a Christmas movie. Then a cascading event!

I reached over for a napkin, the book slid off my lap, dropped on the floor, jostled Mrs. Chris' ice tea which splashed a drop of tea on the binding (the dust cover was removed). I took my napkin and attempted to dry the tea from the cover and the napkin instantly fused to the binding! Stunned (what did Derleth use on his black ink boards, adhesive?) I worked with it for a few minutes only making it worse. Even my standby, lip balm, would not remove the cellulose fibers from the copy.

Thus, one day when my bones are but dust, and a future Lovecraftian holds my mouldering copy of Lovecraft Letters, he will wonder ... but I did slip a note into the book as to this story of blundersome Perridas.

Allen M Steele

I have been wanting to type this for some time. In January 2010's Asimov, there is an excelent story by Allen M. Steele that will delight all horror antiquarians. His "The Jekyll Island Horror" is, in my humble opinion, quite Lovecraftian without being Lovecraft. It involves a secondary witness to the alien horror, and is set in Lovecraft's time period.

Kudos and Bravo!

If you can peruse it at your local Border's or B&N, download it to your kindle, or buy a copy.

Microscopic Cthulhu?

This is a microscopic octopus captured while doing plankton research. It was originally a National Geographic image, but the page is apparently taken down.

Life is not only alien, it exists in places nearly inconceivable to us.

Lovecraft

George wondered if the image posted recently could be cleaned up. I am not "Mr. Artist" and I don't have a lot of software for this kind of thing, so I freehanded in 'paint'. Those of you who are artists, I'm sure you can do much better. I did notice that in this picture, HPL exhibits "Bing Crosby" ears, or for moderns, maybe we should say "Will Smith" ears.

Tentacular Federal Reserve?

Our own discombobulated Senator Bunning (R-KY) has, perhaps, for once called it. Bunning will soon no longer be a senator, but as a true ball player he swings for the stands.

In a tirade that may be both his epitath and long remembered, Bunning blurted out to Bernanke, "...you put the printing presses into overdrive to fund the government’s spending and hand out cheap money to your masters on Wall Street. In short, you are the definition of a moral hazard. You are repeating the same mistakes as Japan in the 1990’s on a much larger scale while sowing the seeds for the next bubble. The AIG bailout alone is reason enough to send you back to Princeton. I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out this process as long as I can. We must put an end to your and the Fed’s failure and there is no better time than now. Your Fed has become the creature from Jekyll Island."

Ia!