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I'm up this early to bake (before going into London for the MCM Expo and Screenwriters' Festival) a sourdough cake called Hermann that's been bubbling away on my work top for the last ten days. It seems odd to name a life form before giving it a feast of apples and raisins, then killing it. There's something vaguely Aztec about it. It has a name because the meme leaflet we were given with the first cloned blob of it called it so.
I thought I'd mention a few spooky events in the shared life of this blog this Halloween. First up episode 5 of the SF Squeecast is now up, a Halloween special recorded without me, in which, amongst other delights, Seanan McGuire brings Halloweentown to the table, and Lynne Thomas talks about It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I'm looking forward to actually being there to record our Christmas edition soon.
A whole bunch of us DC Comics writers who are working on the Dark and Edge groups of titles contribute to part one and part two of this roundtable interview about the things that scare us. It includes pictures of some of the writers in Halloween costume (I wish we'd had that tradition when I was young), and an intriguing piece of Mike Choi art from Demon Knights #4.
On November 12-13 I'll be going along to the Fortean Times Unconvention as an attendee rather than a speaker, just for the love of all things weird and wonderful.
In rather less spooky news, Melinda Snodgrass' script for a Wild Cards movie is going to be made. Congratulations!
Speaking of which, the new edition of the second ever Wild Cards book, Aces High, is out soon from Tor, and here's the lovely cover:
Mmm, just got the cake out of the oven. That looks like a success. Hermann's sacrifice was not in vain. The house smells of cake.
Finally, long term readers will know that I'm a supporter of charities that increase awareness of, and research into, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or M.E.. One such is Let's Do it for ME and the link directs you to a shop where you can find their t-shirts, mugs, etc. It's a very good cause.
Right, I'm signing in less than six hours. I'd better shave this stubble off. Cheerio!
A whole bunch of us DC Comics writers who are working on the Dark and Edge groups of titles contribute to part one and part two of this roundtable interview about the things that scare us. It includes pictures of some of the writers in Halloween costume (I wish we'd had that tradition when I was young), and an intriguing piece of Mike Choi art from Demon Knights #4.
On November 12-13 I'll be going along to the Fortean Times Unconvention as an attendee rather than a speaker, just for the love of all things weird and wonderful.
In rather less spooky news, Melinda Snodgrass' script for a Wild Cards movie is going to be made. Congratulations!
Speaking of which, the new edition of the second ever Wild Cards book, Aces High, is out soon from Tor, and here's the lovely cover:
Mmm, just got the cake out of the oven. That looks like a success. Hermann's sacrifice was not in vain. The house smells of cake.
Finally, long term readers will know that I'm a supporter of charities that increase awareness of, and research into, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or M.E.. One such is Let's Do it for ME and the link directs you to a shop where you can find their t-shirts, mugs, etc. It's a very good cause.
Right, I'm signing in less than six hours. I'd better shave this stubble off. Cheerio!
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Demon Knights,
Fortean Times,
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The SF Squeecast,
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I hope you're talking to your Hermann because, apparently, that's what you need to do to help "him" "grow"...
If you're worried about the Aztec connotations you might need to call on Barbara Wright to put a stop to it :-)
You have a Hermann too! My gad! My German colleague gave me a Hermann and it was the first I had heard of such - they must be like great=great-cousins! Did yours come with a sheet of photocopied instructions? (So are all such shared sourdough cakes Hermanns? Are there other names?)
V sadly I did not get to make my Hermann as I went away for 10 days at exactly wrong time!!
If I talked to Hermann, I'd feel even worse about the ritual slaughter that followed. I did indeed get a sheet of photocopied instructions. Hermann is like a living chain letter. I suspect all Hermanns are clones of one original.
I AM german and I don't have a clue what you are talking about.
Hermann isn't necessarily German. The photocopied sheet is in English.