My Kermit avatar there is labeled in my folder with the quote from the Muppet Movie, "Millions of people happy."

Yes, indeed. Millions of people happy.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Machine Gun of Enlightened Compassion.

Get yours.

This year marks the long-overdue DragonCon debut of WEIRD TALES. On a less important note, it will also be my own first time attending. We'll be taking part in several very cool program items:

FRI 4PM: Steampunk: From Fiction To Reality. I'm excited to be sitting on this panel, which promises to be a lot of fun, with a lineup including novelist ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaand that's another Worldcon come and gone.

First off, kudos to my dad,
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You’ve seen the latest wave of spam - you know, the faux outrageous news headlines: “Osama trains goats for tactical bombing.” “Laika the Russian space dog returns to Earth.” “Children admit to being little shits: Video.” Isn’t it a shame the headline is all we get? So here at Weird Tales we’re inviting YOU to turn this spam into ( Read more... )

That's the title of the ambitious new art project Weird Tales is presenting online, starting today, for the next year. Go there now, check out the beautiful mixed-media Lovecraftian paintings of Baltimore artist and musician Steven Archer a.k.a.
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O ye LJ friends, I submit to you this thought:

Rose from The Golden Girls and Phoebe from Friends are the same character.

And both are avatars of Delirium of the Endless.

The fiction-review site The Fix raves over the Weird Tales 85th anniversary issue: “Weird Tales #349 is an almost perfect issue. I’d say ‘you can’t get much better than this,’ but Weird Tales has been steadily raising the bar. It’s excellent and getting even better.”

(They were pretty happy with #348, too!)

The Interstitial Arts Foundation has a nifty new cross-media art happening going on at the moment. You may or may not have had a chance to pick up a copy of Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss's fantastic anthology of ineffable strangeness, Interfictions -- I'd highly recommend it if you haven't! -- but in either case, you can marvel at the IAF's new ( Read more... )

The World Cafe Live in Philadelphia is a terrific venue, and the Black Lily Film & Music Festival sounds like a nifty time to be had...