J Alan Erwine's Blog

J Alan Erwine is a prize winning SF writer. He is also an SF editor, and the co-designer of the Ephemeris Role Playing Game. He is also the creator of the Rocks on the Other Side RPG, as well as the Battle for Turtle Island RPG.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

It was one year ago today...

...that I said good bye to Subway, thinking I would never again go back...and we all know how well that worked out. I wish I'd had a cam...

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Afraid to Shoot Strangers

I've been an Iron Maiden fan for years, especially their more "progressive" music, so when I found this video on YouTube today...

Silly, silly me...

It was always my understanding that Article 2 of the US Constitution clearly showed that the Vice-President is a member of the Executive Bra...

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Are you sure you're old enough to be reading this?

Monday, June 25, 2007

Star Trek meets Monty Python

I've always been a Trekker, and I'm a big Monty Python fan too, so I found this very amusing...

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Hometown Baghdad

I stumbled across this interesting documentary today called "Hometown Baghdad." It's told from the point of view of regular p...

Greg Bear hits The Daily Show

Award winning SF writer Greg Bear was on The Daily Show Thursday night. Although I don't think the audience necessarily "got him,...

Friday, June 22, 2007

Asimov spam

I'm feeling very cranky today, but rather than posting about my job, or my ribs, or the heat, or the chimp in the White House, I figured...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

I'm sick of the heat

Today was the third day this week that we've set a record high, and I'm sick of it. I've never liked the heat. I would much ra...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Another novel excerpt

If you're interested in reading another excerpt from my novel The Opium of the People , Word Weavers on MySpace currently has a sample f...

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Star Wars Robot Chicken

I don't know if any of you caught the most recent episode of Robot Chicken...it was a Star Wars edition. George Lucas even appears in i...

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Atheists are immoral?

This is something that's been floating around the blogosphere quite a bit lately, and it strikes me as being absolutely absurd. The prem...

Friday, June 15, 2007

To script or not to script, that is the question

During my freedom from a real job, I wrote a novel based off of my short story A Problem in Translation . That manuscript is currently wand...

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Lil Bush

Comedy Central has a new cartoon called "Lil Bush." In the show, Dubya is eight, I think, and he hangs out with his little friends...

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Still alive

Nothing much to report here. I'm off today, so I'm basically spending the day icing the ribs hoping they get better...it doesn'...

Monday, June 04, 2007

Ouch!

Just before my freshman year of high school, I had reconstructive chest surgery to correct a problem I'd had since birth. Basically, th...

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Back to the slave mines

Tomorrow it's back to work for me. The first couple of weeks will probably be a hard adjustment for me, as I try to get used to not bei...

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Let There Be...

This is something I wrote many years ago. It's not really a story...it's more of a satire. I had a couple of comedic zines interes...

Friday, June 01, 2007

Battlestar Galactica

It's been announced that next season will be the last for the new Battlestar Galactica. I can't decide if this is a good thing or a ...

Thursday, May 31, 2007

The Sam's Dot Update

I recently finished uploading all of the June updates for Sam's Dot. I don't think we've ever had a bigger update...plus Tyree f...

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