The formal acceptance of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers’ Grand Master / Lifetime Achievement Award at SDCC 2014: I want first of all to thank the IAMTW for…
…even though I won’t be there. (Work is keeping me home, unfortunately, as well as a medical issue or two. ) This is the locus of interest at SDCC 2014……
Just a quick note about this. We ship all signed hardcovers and paperbacks by registered mail / post to prevent losses in transatlantic shipping. (There were a whole lot of…
Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, essayist, Holmesian: there is a lot to know (and like) about Dorothy L. Sayers. This I didn’t know, though: her first writing that made a real…
2014-07-19 through 2014-07-19
In the “Something’s A Bit Wrong With This Sentence” department…: “A Seattle man burnt down his house on Tuesday after trying to kill a spider that he found in the…
So last night I was working late-ish, and it occurred to me that this would be a good time to bake some bread. In particular I wanted to test the…
The song that contains the line above was originally famous for having come from the great Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel, and is now much better known on this side…
lileks: Oh God the tables have turned please do not put me in your pants I am sorry I put you in my pants I think I’d probably better…
lileks: “Fargin’ Unicorns get adopted by the Gays, but I’m sitting around here all day waiting for the bisexuals to ring me up and say they need a mascot.” …
(via anartificialaspidistra🙂 Hi Diane, I’ve been a fan for a long time. Read the YW books, Wounded Sky, and eventually the Door Into… books staring when I was a kid…
…For those who may be interested: This is a Mexican recipe that Peter devised from one originally intended to use a whole pork roast. It’s really good. The last time…
Once long ago in the land of Khem, there lived a King who greatly desired a son. For long and long no son was vouchsafed to him, but he would…
Crowds retrieve 100,000 books dumped in skip Almost 100,000 new books were dumped into a skip outside a Derry bookshop today after the receiver ordered that the contents of the…
Those of you who may remember the above image from a week and a half or so ago might be curious about how things have been progressing. Briefly, not real…
And they’re good. 🙂 From Phebusa.fr: “I devoured this book in two days…” Pour terminer, je préciserai que j’ai dévoré ce livre en deux jours (j’accuse aussi les chapitres trop…
I’ve felt sorry for Amtrak for a long time. Economic pressures and the unique problems of any rail system based inside the US (where automobile travel has too long been…
06/1/1854 Happy birthday, old friend. Your creator was the first person I consciously took as a tutor in the art of structuring fiction. I didn’t do it because I loved…
Sometimes you want something a little different from the usual run of Christmas cookies. These fit the bill nicely. Germany has a long tradition of spice-based cookies / bikkies, the…
If you’re in the Netherlands (I don’t say Holland, because you might be in the Netherlands without necessarily being in Holland) and you’ve ordered coffee after a meal or a…
Ginger nuts are a favorite store-bought biscuit in most parts of the UK and Ireland, but homemade ones are way better. And somehow or other I seem to have made…
For Black Friday 2013 at Ebooks Direct, everything in the store, everything in our catalog, is 50% off from now until 1 minute before midnight Hawaiian Standard Time on Friday…
You know the place. It’s where deities and divinities and avatars go when they’ve clocked off and they need a casual after-work pint or a quick remedial stiff one or…
Some of you will know (or guess) that I’m interested in the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and food. God knows, in canon Holmes really enjoys his meals, and one of…