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The new banner here at Letters from the Perilous Realm is the work of Aaron J. Smith, aka Cultural Savage. Those buttons for my two books on the sidebar below the pictures of Rochester are also his work. If you’re looking for logos or banners, this is the guy you want to work with!

All Saints and All Souls Day
Last night, I watched, for the first time, the film 28 Days Later. An incurable infection spreads causing a rabid, inhuman rage within 10-20 seconds of exposure. One small pocket of the uninfected exists, consisting of a few military men and the story’s three main characters. The military commander gives an interesting speech at one point, in which he explains that this current situation – infected humans killing everyone who remains – is as “normal” as the world has ever been. All he ever saw 28 days before, and 28 days before that, and 28 days before that, was “people killing people.” And this military commander, w

Happy Halloween!
I’ll post pictures later of Sophia in her Clifford costume, Tricia in her Marge Simpson costume, and me in my vampire costume. In the meantime, I need to link the James Jordan piece on Halloween that I link almost every year. It’s a favorite. PubCast #71: “A Hog’s Head Halloween,” or “John Granger’s Tell-Tale Dead Dog” will be posted at The Hog’s Head later tonight. I’ve recently cut a few things from my life that will allow more time for writing, and I’ve begun the preliminary brainstorming work on a three-book series

Rest in Peace, Mary Travers

Everyone is Lying
This health care debate is as painful as it gets when it comes to politics in America. I am exhausted by watching people willingly abandon critical thinking about their own beliefs in order to join a team and tear apart the other team. Listen: Both sides are lying a little bit. Both sides have folks who are telling the truth and genuinely want to see a resolution in this debate, and both sides have morons. So please, spare us the headlines and blog posts and Facebook updates like, “Facts Don’t Matter to the Anti-Obama Camp!” and the like. Sheesh. I am, as usual, with the libertarians on this one, and I think