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Lovecraft Country: Who was Lovecraft anyways?
Howard Philips Lovecraft (20 August 1890-15 March 1937) was the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, a writer of weird fiction, and a master of horror. He wrote for pulp magazines and focused in on the idea of where humanity fits into the universe, a genre that has come to be known as cosmic horror. One thing's for sure, his more fantastic elements make it clear that he thought anthropocentrism, humanity as the most important being on Earth, to be a rather fragile idea. He has influenced just about every major English-language writer of horror that I can think of and, I'm sure, horror authors who write in other languages as…
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Why I Love TED
TED is this brilliant platform online that is essentially a whole lot of awesome all wrapped up into one site. I love it. Some of the best minds out there are on TED. I’m going to include in this, some of the awesome videos, which–for no apparent reason–seem to be playing in higher video quality for me tonight on YouTube. Since they’re playing that way for me, I have included the link to TED (which is the best way to search for things) and some of my favourite talks that I use with my students. The first one, “Sarah Kay: If I Should Have a Daughter”, is something that I…
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Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman, Characters and Planning
So, I read the conversation between Shaun Tan and Neil Gaiman (Renaissance men involved in about a billion projects, look them up if you don’t know them) that was featured in The Guardian and this bit popped out to me because, even though they’re planners, they can understand and explain those of use who are not and cannot be. I know that I have said before, if you can be a planner, do so. It will make your life infinitely more easy. I, however, don’t seem to be able to. I can polish plan after the fact to fix up “dodgy bits” but I can’t do it beforehand. ST:…
