During breaks in writing the final report, I've read Mohamed Amin's The Beauty of Makkah & Madinah (Nairobi: Camerapix), from the ACOR library. It's meant to be a photographic guide to Mecca and the Ka'bah, as well as to Medina, the city of Muhammad,...

Very sad news indeed. His Tremendousness, Prince Giorgio I of the Principality of Seborga, has passed. Now I need to find a copy of How to Start Your Own Country.

If the world were going to end on December 21, 2012, how would you spend the last of your days on earth and why? Submitted By rainwizard View 568 Answers Obviously, I would spend my time convincing people the world isn't going to end. That way when...

In my absence, the book containing my essay on Lovecraft and the Aztecs, The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America, has been published by Mythpoeic Press. One of the editors, eldritchhobbit, has been interviewed about it online. Shockingly,...

For the record, I'm alive and well in Southern Jordan. Excavations are going well -- we've now excavated about half of the elite residence (palace, if you like) in Area R, the area under my supervision. Unfortunately, I don't have much internet time,...