• 12:38 Listening to the HPLHS recording of "At the Mountains of Madness". Truly I am a machine for turning Lovecraftiana into happiness. #
• 13:49 Stupid Loudtwitter. Send tweets to livejournal damn your eyes. #
• 14:40 @ cobrophy: Well for me personally there is the weight issue and the unrealistically standard of personal grooming. #
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I came across this the other day and it was too funny not to share. Lord Dunkellin was on active service in Persia at the time this letter was written. One of his duties there  was to send regular reports to his uncle, Lord Canning. When he had no military or diplomatic inteligence to offer, he wrote to his aunt instead.

Lord Dunkellin to Lady ( Read more... )

I did some house sitting for the Munchkin's parents last week.

It was a good week, I got away from people and produced a tolerable amount of material. The house is in Dun Laoghaire and I'm very fond of it. It's a late 19th century pile, with high ceilings and striped wall paper. I found a bound edition of the Strand magazine in the library and ( Read more... )

In my more wistful and extravagant fantasies I have often thought that it would be a very grand thing to have a book of mine illustrated by Angus McBride. It seemed a distant goal, Mr. McBride was at the pinnacle of his craft and I'm an as yet unpubished hack ( Read more... )

Unlike Uber, Xaosseed & the rest of the gang over at blogcoven.com, I rarely update my blog. Mainly, I suppose, because those of you who might be interested in the mundane details of my life already live with me and because I'm an obsessive monomaniac who takes little notice of the world outside his sphere of interest ( Read more... )