The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot (via Warren Ellis) is a formula for writing a 6000-word pulp story, by the creator of Doc Savage. An interesting mix of good advice: First line, or as near thereto as possible, introduce the hero and swat him with a fistful of trouble. Hint at a mystery, […]
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AK Comics publish comics about "Middle Eastern Heroes" in Arabic and English. Here’s an article about them: ”It’s actually a dream I’ve had since childhood," said Kandeel, a 38-year-old economics professor at Cairo University who started the company in 2003. ”I grew up with DC Comics," referring to the publisher of such cultural icons as […]
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Three Monkeys
According to the Chinese Calendar, 2004 is the Year of the Monkey (link link link). And so was 1968, the year I was born (August 25th, coming soon, now would be a good time to mark your calendar, wink-wink nudge-nudge, now that everyone’s moved to Trillian and isn’t getting automatic ICQ reminders). Which means that […]
Abir Warrior Arts is a website for the martial arts school of Yehoshua Sofer, aka “The Abir Aluf”, aka “The Admor”. Under that last name he once produced a critically-acclaimed Hebrew Raggamuffin album, but recently he’s promoting his Hebraic martial arts style, which he ties into “ancient Jewish traditions”, the twelve tribes, the ancient Hebrew […]
A TV show I just caught the tail of mentioned an archeological pioneer called Petrie. Google elaborates that this is probaby William Matthew Flinders Petrie, an important Victorian Egyptologist (that page is part of the Petrie Museum site). Another link that showed up is for a gothic RPG campaign run by the RPGA, RPGA Living […]