Status Report

Image by Earl – What I Saw 2.0 via Flickr Things have calmed down a bit, so I have time to write a status report of what’s up with me. GrandmomThe weekend sorting out Grandmom’s house and going to her funeral was emotionally difficulty, but socially and logistically fine. There was no drama, and only very [...]

Interview in Ergofiction magazine

Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there. Between last night (when I wrote my post-mortem) and this morning, this interview about Whitechapel at Ergofiction magazine went live: http://www.ergofiction.com/2010/01/cafe-wednesday-eddy-webb/ Go check it out!

Family Emergency

As I expect people will be concerned, I wanted to give a heads-up before I fall off the radar for a bit. Long story short, Michelle’s grandmother passed away suddenly this morning. There has been a police investigation, and Michelle is working with them as the next of kin. (Before people get worried about that, the investigation is [...]

Purple Prose

While Chuck Wendig is in Utah, I write a guest post on his blog talking about language and penises. But mostly penises. http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2010/01/20/penis-by-eddy-webb/ (Note: The last section of my original post got cut off somehow, so check the comments for the final piece.)

Two More Anthology Opportunities

I’ve just been informed that two blog posts I worked on for FlamesRising.com have been nominated for inclusion in the next volume of Open Game Table. Finding Horror in the Eighties City in the Sand Interview Here’s a link to the original announcement. Also, I’ve been formally invited to participate in another fiction anthology this year, [...]

An Afternoon in the Mutant Future

Yesterday afternoon I finally got a chance to run a session of Mutant Future. Five of my friends from work got together over lunch with their randomly-created characters to sit down and play. First, a brief description of the game. The splash text says “Mutant Future is a post-apocalyptic science fantasy RPG, in the same [...]

Arsene Lupin

Image via Wikipedia For a while now (okay, many years), I’ve been meaning to read Maurice Leblanc‘s stories of Arsene Lupin. A couple of years ago, I noticed that a half dozen or so of his books are now in the public domain and available on Project Gutenberg, so I downloaded them, but never got around to [...]