Per aspera

I don’t usually write about work, because that’s my real name up there, and writing about work on the web is a fantastic way to lose your job.  For that reason, I’ll try to be deliberately hazy with any identifying details.  But I must speak, for this may be my last communication with the outside world.
My […]

I haven’t seen Cloverfield yet. I plan to. But it’s my understanding that the monster in Cloverfield isn’t Cthulhu, though there was some wishful thinking in that direction when the first trailer came out.
I wish it had been, though. Part of what’s compelling about Lovecraft’s narrative voice is that he only gives […]

Let us return to the subject of Lovecraft and the inevitable death of not only ourselves, but our civilization, our race, our planet, and any memory or trace of ourselves or our posterity, annihilated inevitably by the very universe that spawned us, and speak of Charles Stross.
Stross’ story A Colder War draws a […]

(EDITED to better explain how very not safe for work Suicide Girls is.)
I’ve been thinking about Lovecraft lately, and why he’s considered such a visionary for what he wrote about in the first third (give or take) of the century. Warren Ellis, in his Sunday column at the Suicide Girls site (somewhat totally […]