First of all, I want to thank all the folks who have wished me well after the last post. Y’all are awesome! And to the rest of you who didn’t, well…I’m watching you and I know where you live. No, not really. Well, I do know where each and every one of you live, but I’m far too busy right now to dispatch any nightgaunts or zoogs to deliver any “friendly reminders,” so it’s all good.

Anyway, for the recently-passed seventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I was going to post a short little piece called “First Responder” that is kinda/sorta tangentially related to “City of Pillars,” but even though it’s just a few pages long, I’ve simply been too busy with work and General Bulshytt to finish the damn thing and post it! I’ll have it up this week, though. I started writing it just to get the juices flowing again before jumping back into the swirling chaos of Manhattan, and it’s definitely gotten the venom coursing into my tongue’s barbs again. Let’s just say that “City of Pillars” (and, to a lesser degree, “First Responder”) are rapidly turning into savage political satires as well as blood-and-slime-drenched monsterfests. Being of a rather conservative bent himself, I’m not sure Grandpa Theobald would particularly approve, but I’m pretty sure he’d be intrigued by the things I’m doing with his mythology.

On that note, there’s also a short essay that I’m writing as a promotional piece for Creative Commons licensing, explaining why I believe HPL and, for that matter, the “amateur journalism” subculture that he held so dear, would’ve loved CC-licensing, considering that many of them promulgated a doctrine of fair use and open sharing of ideas and content in the early 20th Century that anticipates contemporary “copyfighting” measure by nearly a century. Those dedicated men and women—protobloggers that they were—were quite ahead of their time and I believe they should finally get their due acknowledgement for their contribution to the development of open culture standards. But that’s still very much so Under Construction, and must naturally take a backseat to “City of Pillars” and further development of original content for this site, so….

Keep your eyes peeled to this space for Fresh Eldritch Content! I’ve begun to shake the cobwebs from my mind and build up a serious head of steam, which will be blasting your faces off in a few days!