Jonathan L. Howard's Blog, page 16

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Mon, 08:13 : Good to see drivers taking the poor visibility and wet roads into account. That's heavy sarcasm, by the way. Mon, 08:25 : Drivers coming down the hill as if they expect to launch a proton torpedo at the bottom. Mon, 08:45 : RT @NotRollergirl: Hey the kids! I know Grimmy and Biebs just said "getting new tattoos" is a "hobby", but you're honestly better off wi ... Mon, 09:42 : Hullo, quotations from "Katya's World" are starting to turn up on Goodreads: http://t.co/VUmJxJan Mon, 11:57 : So, I'm returning a wad of forms as thick as an elephant's neck in a postage paid envelope just large enough to hold a pixie's ID card. Mon, 11:57 : Where's the sellotape?

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Sat, 13:29 : Wow. When the party that's now in de facto control of the country started behaving like the Scientologists: http://t.co/4hAidbZZ

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Fri, 12:23 : RT @TimPrasil: And Another Early American Occult Detective! http://t.co/mRfxCazL Fri, 20:01 : @EwaSR What a bastard. Think good thoughts, e.g. he left the station and walked straight under a bus. Fri, 23:41 : RT @LordWoolamaloo: citizen @mattstaggs as a newbie American coming to Dredd, with some Brit Dredd input from yours truly http://t.co/2P ...

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Fri, 08:48 : RT @davidschneider: Huge queues outside churches, public toilets and the statue of a horse as people head to buy new iPhone using Apple Maps Fri, 09:45 : RT @ConvivialMan: Haaa! #British Sense Of #Humour. Love It! ☞ http://t.co/ZJh7gJVK

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Wed, 15:31 : WHAT? Charlotte Green & Harriet Cass are accepting voluntary redundancy and leaving BBC Radio 4? They ARE Radio 4, you bean-counting dolts. Wed, 17:14 : What vile poo-flinging primate monstrosity is this, infecting my Kindle? @AckAckMacaque http://t.co/LXr8NVG2 Wed, 20:38 : RT @msenese: Meet Makerbot's NEW replicator. (It uses biodegradable plastic!) http://t.co/HCHt2IYx Thu, 09:33 : RT @DalekMP: Promising not to invade the Earth was stupid. We knew we'd be in coalition with the renegades or the Imperials and have to ... Thu, 09:45 : RT @volewriter: Re-tweeting this for writer pals because it will make them smile: http://t.co/YRa9tBRj

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Tue, 09:37 : RT @rebecsmart: RT @OspreyBooks: Jason & Argonauts, Dragonslayers, King Arthur, Thor, Hercules. New Osprey series http://t.co/Cdke5a ... Tue, 09:56 : Grognards on the Osprey list saying the launch of a myths and legends line is the end of Osprey as a serious publisher. Idiots. Tue, 09:56 : RT @KingKightlinger: Lady Gaga proves you can be weird without the hassle of being interesting. Tue, 19:56 : I am capable of imagining 6 impossible things before breakfast. A reason why anyone would want to remake "Red Dawn," however, is beyond me.

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Fri, 19:07 : Last call for my attempt to bore a small crowd into a coma tomorrow at #Waterstones Trowbridge http://t.co/SwEq1BAh Fri, 21:15 : @Cfordiani09 Yes, being in California also presents some quite substantial landmass in the way, too. Oh, for matter transporters. Sat, 09:15 : RT @CherylMorgan: Right, Trowbridge Arts Festival today. @JulietEMcKenna @JonathanLHoward @Moira_Young @GuyHaley and that Abercrombie guy.

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Thu, 12:39 : Today's heresy -- I think Roald Dahl's children's book are vastly overrated, and not a patch on his stuff for adults (braces for unfollows). Thu, 14:11 : @BryonyPearce Welcome aboard. Bollington, eh? Used to have friends near there and went through Bollington en route. Lovely area. Thu, 23:38 : Just helped a spider in a fez out of the window. I am being entirely truthful. Fri, 08:50 : RT @EmmaK67: Good morning. David Bowie's Space Oddity as a Children's Book http://t.co/E3flrsHZ Fri, 09:27 : RT @TwopTwips: FRENCH PAPARAZZI. Make money by aggressively invading the privacy of a British princess. What could possibly go wrong? (v ... Fri, 09:40 : RT @hierath77: Sign up now if you want a #Bristolcon badge with your name on it! Otherwise you have to draw your own badge and add smile ... Fri, 09:56 : @freckledfish @terrywiley_idcm Josh Kirby's stuff becoming the look of Pratchett, for example. That was not his best work by a mile. Fri, 11:00 : Hmmm, this Google Bacon thing is knackered. It connected Lon Chaney via Ken Brannagh, who apparently costarred in "The Unknown" (1927). Fri, 11:02 : Oh, crumbs. Doing a thing at Trowbridge #Waterstones in 25 hours time. Okay, *now* I'm starting to panic.

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Wed, 12:17 : Oh, yes! The BBC is (sort of) reopening the Radiophonic Workshop after (idiotically) closing it 14 years ago: http://t.co/m2a9Bhvk Wed, 13:36 : Not content with sullying Trowbridge's #Waterstones this Saturday, I shall be doing much the same to Bristol's. http://t.co/2kWjshMp Wed, 14:23 : I'm terribly sorry -- I haven't been keeping this up at all despite me doing stuff that was worth blogging … http://t.co/xtAuPaAU Wed, 14:47 : That slightly random tweet earlier was LiveJournal's way of informing you that I've just posted a blog entry: http://t.co/b38JwJa4 Wed, 16:53 : RT @strangechem: WOW!! Over 600 entries to win a Strange Chemistry goody bag! http://t.co/kHDTPeWh Thanks Hannah :-D Thu, 10:43 : RT @ArdaghTips: Imagine each of your characters is a particular smell, then check yourself into a psychiatric unit. #badwritingtips ARCHIVE Thu, 11:38 : Oh, SO buying this: http://t.co/JMMpOT2G Hope they release "Schalken the Painter" sometime, too. #GhostStories

Upcoming Stuff

I'm terribly sorry -- I haven't been keeping this up at all despite me doing stuff that was worth blogging about. I shall endeavour to get back into the habit of posting more frequently. 

Right, things that are happening.

This Saturday, the 15th, I shall be making an appearance at the Trowbridge branch of Waterstone's at midday. I wish I could give you a link for that, but the web page is down for maintenance at the moment. Anyway, I'll be boring the pants off anyone with the patience to bear it for an hour. It's going to be mainly about Johannes Cabal, talking about the genesis of the character, doing a reading, a Q & A and then, time permitting, a little bit on Katya's World with a brief reading. 

Then, on the 12th October at 18:30, I shall be cluttering up Waterstone's in the Bristol Galleries, along with some other reprobates associated with BristolCon, specifically Emma Newman, Gareth L. Powell, and Tim "The Maughan" Maughan. It's going to be a panel and Q & A dealy, with signings afterwards, and -- if Gareth L. Powell starts channelling Ack-Ack Macaque at any point -- the scaling of bookshelves and the random flinging of poo. 

Then in the week following, I shall be at BristolCon itself. In all likelihood I shall be on one or more panels, but that's not finalised yet. If I got drunk at the Waterstone's thing, it was me up the bookshelves with the poo, and they don't want me on any panels as a result, I shall at the very least be there as a punter. 

If you're in the Bath/Bristol area for any of those dates, you'd be more than welcome.