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Happy Birthday, Bram!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work in [...]

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Birthday from beyond space

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Ah, if only Lovecraft could live on in that eternal life beyond death. But, alas, he cannot and we have only his tremendous body of work to keep us company. Never the less, knowing that it is his birthday, I feel [...]

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Happy Birthday, Count!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work in [...]

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One Publishers and Two Writer’s Birthdays

Friday, September 21, 2007

According to Writer’s Almanac we have three birthdays to celebrate today.
First, there’s novelist Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, who was born in Bromley, England in1866. According to the note I got from Writer’s Almanac, Wells had a job writing biology textbooks until he developed a respiratory illness in his late 20s. Since he thought he didn’t [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lovecraft!

Monday, August 20, 2007

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Ah, if only Lovecraft could live on in that eternal life beyond death. But, alas, he cannot and we have only his tremendous body of work to keep us company. Never the less, knowing that it is his birthday, I feel [...]

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Birthday of the Modern Vampire

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
I’ve been getting the daily e-mail from the Writer’s Almanac for more than a year, but, somehow I’ve missed announcing Bram Stoker’s birthday. If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He [...]

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Red Herring Friday

Friday, October 27, 2006

Hey’s it’s Friday and I have no theme to my crazy links.
Look I paid all my important bills last night and I’m too tired to come up with any real theme here, but these all are perfect links for a Friday.
First, in honor of Halloween, I bring you a link to the story, via Boing [...]

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Three Important Birthdays

Thursday, September 21, 2006

According to Writer’s Almanac we have three birthdays to celebrate today.
First, there’s novelist Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, who was born in Bromley, England in1866. According to the note I got from Writer’s Almanac, Wells had a job writing biology textbooks until he developed a respiratory illness in his late 20s. Since he thought he didn’t [...]

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