Angry Robot BooksGNR via PA
One of the coolest things about the web is also one of the most insidious qualities it has. Links that spring out leading you to suprising resources you might never have found if someone else had not stuck it out there for you to stumble across. Now I know this is not a ground breaking realization or anything. However once in a while you hit a link and say, “Damn I wish I had known about this before”.
I read Penny Arcade regularly. The comic is decent to good and the blog is usually better than that. Today I was dumbfounded that Tycho had not fully consumed Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories. Heck I was a little suprised he even admitted it. Oh well, all the better for me because in this confession was a link to Graphic Novel Review. Specifically a review of Conan: Tower of the Elephant (And Other Stories)
Good review and tasty links to waste more of your time on. The blog itself seems very nice and the reviews are board spectrum as far as graphic novels covered. Looks like I’ll add it to my list of regular reads.
While talking about links, finding new info and the time it wastes. We must always hit Wikipedia for the ultimate in sidetracking ones self.
DnD revisists the Demon Web
From the Monkey King …
- Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, April 2007: A return to Lolth’s web a la “The Harrowing” or Q1, but with a Planescape twist. Also revisits a famous site in the Abyss that I first described in Planes of Chaos. It’s grown up quite a bit since then, what with city maps and all. Also curious to see what changes WotC makes during the yearlong incubation period between turnover and publication.
Pulp Fiction
One of my regular blog reads posted today about an author who I had no previous knowledge of.
He was a contemporary of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the the Wierd Tales crew and sounds like a good read, will have to be sure to add him to my list of grab him if I see him at my local used book store. So for starters I ordered a copy of “The Port of Peril” from Alibris which I have used for some harder to find books I have given up on at my local haunt. I am also going to grab one from AbeBooks, which seems to have a better variety of titles available.
About ERB.. I can pretty much blame him, well actually my junior high school band director gets a good chunk of the blame, followed closely by my uncle George. Phil loaned me a copy of “A Princes of Mars” and I was hooked. My uncle took me with him on his monthly trips to a mall in Lima Ohio where I was able to pick up the books in the series one at a time. From there things branched out to my monsterous (at least I am pretty sure that is what my wife calls it when she walks into my office) collection of books. I am in the process of getting them entered into my Library Thing.
Flickr Feed
Added a pluggin to the site that pulls an RSS feed of most recent images I tag to be available to the blog from my Flickr photos. Most of this stuff will be just personal goof off stuff or family things, so don’t expect much.
Gov’t Mule
I have been listening to Jams channel on sirius of late and they play a lot of Gov’t Mule, so I went to their site today just for the heck of it. The front page has a notice about an upcoming show, I find irony in this paragraph.
ROCHCHESTER SHOW UPDATE
Gov’t Mule’s concert this Saturday 12/2 in Rochester, NY at the Main Street Armory has been moved to the Harro East Theatre and Ballroom. We regret making this change, however, it became increasingly clear that The Main Street Armory and its owner Scott Donaldson were ill equipped to host this show. Mr. Donaldson double booked his venue with a civil Service Exam this Saturday despite our early load in being scheduled for months. Donaldson has been unreachable since Monday, and although his actions have created quite a mess, from our standpoint, the show must go on.