These posts need titles, so I go for alliteration. Alliteration gives me an excuse to grab my primordial Oxford English Dictionary. I’ve mentioned this before, but I don’t think folks quite appreciate what a font of wordage it is. It’s ninety years old and smells like knowledge. Anyway, it’s been quite a month. The Apocalypse […]
I remembered to check the daylight savings time switchover. 5 November. We’re still in EDT, so 7PM EDT. That pathetic success tempts me to once again attempt to post the time in UTC, which I believe would be 11pm, but I know perfectly well that I’ll screw it up. This one is for the West […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of October, and the public at the beginning of November.) If you’re in a country that has Halloween, you need to read A Night In The Lonesome October. It has thirty-one chapters, one for each day of the month, and that’s how you’re supposed to read it. […]
My newest collection, Apocalypse Moi, is assembled. It contains a bunch of chapbooks that are about to go out-of-print, plus some stuff that was only published in anthologies, plus an original time travel story and a brand-new Prohibition Orcs tale. I’m waiting for the printer to approve the PDFs to get the print, but I […]
I give up on time zones. I just plain give up. The urge to provide the time in UTC or GMT or some normal, conventional Standard Time Unit reoccurred today, but all my efforts in that direction have spectacularly imploded. SPECTACULARLY. I have been working as a writer for nine years now, and time no […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of September, and the public at the beginning of October.) While “See the Sausage Being Made” is an accurate description for the $1/month Patronizer level, I’ve been pondering renaming it “Give Lucas Money Just For Still Being Alive.” Because that’s kind of what it feels like over […]
It’s the peak of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and I sincerely hope that you are out doing something interesting rather than hanging out online. Video hangout attendance has been down, which I take as a positive sign, but soon enough the cold will return and folks will huddle up to their screens again. But […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of August, and the public at the beginning of September.) The most exciting thing this month is probably the Writing Chariot. I have written at a standing desk since about 2010. I find it much more sustainable than a standard desk, and it lets me pace more […]
I hope that y’all are having a fun-filled glamour-packed joyful summer and don’t have time to hang out with me. But most of you are computer folks, so I know better. Plus, it’s hot out. We melt. Instead, join me for an hour of snark, surl, and sarcasm with a possibility of rat. Michael Lucas […]
This post goes to Patronizers at the beginning of July, and the public at the beginning of August. Once upon a time, I owned a Chevrolet SSR hard-top convertible. It retailed for fifty thousand dollars in 2005, back when that was real money. No, I didn’t buy it. I won it at a $500/plate […]
