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“Lightsaber Without A Key”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key/ installment “number seven”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key#VII is now up.

As it turned out posting “Lightsaber Without A Key” on someone else’s server didn’t work out too well and alwaysblack and I decided it would be best if I ran the remainder of the story here on alex.golub.name. Nothing traumatic, just quicker updates this way. There is now a “Lightsaber Without A Key”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key/ page that [...]

The latest installation of Lightsaber Without A Key is now available: “read it now!”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=230#more-230. In fact, you can “read ‘em all”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?cat=16 if you like.

LWOAK IV is now live and “you can read it at AlwaysBlack”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=224 other less important projects like my dissertation and professional career as well as AB’s busy stable of writers has meant this one has been some time in coming, but I’m submitting the next one tonight if it kills me and we should pick [...]

Part III of LWOAK is “now available”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=215 at the always fine always black.

“Part two”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=210 is available over at Alwaysblack’s place. If anyone can come up with a better acronym than “LWOAK” or a short nickname, then please let me know.

I’m very proud to announce that the first installment of the next story in the AHATPOLS series is now live on “alwaysblack.com”:http://www.alwaysblack.com. In honor of another famous pulp novel set in Hawaii, it is called “The Lightsaber Without a Key” and you can “read the first part”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=151#more-151 now. I’ll try to post roughly weekly and [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that I will be running the sequel to “Andrew Huff And The Pool Of Lost Souls”:http://www.lulu.com/content/128306 over the winter break at “alwaysblack.com”:http://alwaysblack.com/. Alwaysblack is the author of “Bow Nigger”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/bownigger.html, the short piece which I start out with in my Virtual Worlds class. As one of the key proponents of “New [...]

!http://alex.golub.name/pics/ahatpols_cover.jpg! After more than a year of hard work I’m very pleased to announce that “Andrew Huff And The Pool Of Lost Souls”:http://alex.golub.name/ahatpols/ is now on sale at lulu.com. “Buy it here”:http://www.lulu.com/content/128306 I am unbelievably grateful to Andrew, Cinnamon, and Naz for all of the hard work and dedication they put into this project. Despite [...]

…and soon the whole world will witness “the power of my fully armed and operational battle station”:http://alex.golub.name/pics/cover-web-02.jpg

REAL LIVE SNOWMONKEYS JUST WAITING FOR YOU. WE ONLY NEED YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO CONFIRM YOU ARE 21! This takes me back to the good old days when obscure psychological processes resulted in The Blog Entry that convinced half my readers that I could speak Japanese, and eventually began the Philip K. Dick-like rift [...]

Ok so here’s what I’ve got so far: “Mr Golub’s idyllic world will never become stale. Unrivalled storytelling of the highest order, unforgettable characters, rich world creation, this is a miraculously brilliant book. A work of rugged wonder.” – Ms Bookish of Bookish.dk It is 1879 and the colonial empires of Britain and Russia battle [...]

Well the publication of Andrew Huff and the Pool of Lost Souls is proceeding apace. We are almost done with the layout and the cover — I’m assured — is nearing completion as well. However, there is one issue: we need some copy on the back cover. I feel a little weird writing a blurb [...]

I’ve created a permanent link for the complete ahatpols manuscript. As I move towards publication this will get revised (i.e. spell checked). But if you’re looking for a complete copy in non-backwards order, that is the place to go. If you’d like to help with doing the layout for the novel or – even better [...]

(for a quick reminder you may want to reread the first episode) “I understand that as professional assasins, you probably don’t have a particularly well developed ironic sensibility,” I said, edging nervously away from them and towards the rim of the caldera, “but surely,” I said gesturing towards the roiling sea of lava that splurped [...]

We staggered down the corridor, a sad group – Rex in Kathy’s arms, Ghyslain in Lessig’s, Trevor in Cumin’s, and I in Andrew’s. Cinnamon walked in front of us, bloody but unbowed. The ground shook beneath us again and a spray of fine silt drifted downward from the ceilings and into my hair. “What’s going [...]

(next one this P.M. Last one Wednesday morning -A) We found them in the dungeon – a dark, airless space dripping with water. The torch that Cumin held to light our paths was too dim for me to see the floor, but I could smell – smell – the blood on the floor around us. [...]

“Ok, now this is insane,” I said. “Trust me.” said Kathy, gesturing ‘gimme’ imperiously. I scrunched up my face and prepared to make my ‘Anne is About to Cry’ face that always proved so effective on Rex. Kathy, I quickly realized, was much harder to sway. “But it’s insane!” “Shut the fuck up and hand [...]

“Careful!” chided Baklava as Andrew accidentally smeared some nail polish on the flesh of her big toe. “Sorry! Sorry!” “Larry,” said Baklava, “go peel me some grapes.” “Yes of course at once.” said Lessig with alacrity, hurrying out of the room. “Disgusting.” said Cinnamon, staring at the scene from behind the grate where we were [...]

Today marks the beginning of the 1st Annual 2004 Golublog Huffathon. I’ll be posting 750-1,000 words of Andrew Huff and the Pool of Lost Souls until it is finished – the absolute last date being 25 February. Uh… but I left the files at home, so I won’t post them until later on today. Wait [...]

Well I think it’s just about time that this Andrew Huff and the Pool of Lost Souls thing was brought to a conclusion, eh? In honor of Valentine’s day I’m planning to set aside some serious time over the weekend and bringing it to its final, shocking suprise end. Then, starting on Monday, I’ll issue [...]

Hl4vot: Hey Rex. Rex: d00d! Hlav what’s up? Long time no see! :)) Rex: r u on earth? Hl4vot: no, still on mars. Rex: whoah. No lag on the line. Hl4vot: ;) Rex: shit – you guys got that portal working? Hl4vot: yeah – pretty cool eh. All the earth content we want, none of [...]

(episodes i – xiii) (episodes xiii- xvii) “Well Anne,” said Cinnamon grimly as she wiped the blood off of the two needles she had just pulled from the guards and replaced them in her knitted holster, “it looks like all the boys have up and got themselves caught.” “She needs help badly,” said Kathy, her [...]

(episodes i – xiii) (episodes xiii- xvi) “Anne! There you are – are you alright?” asked Rex, picking me up and dusting me off. “Yes, I’m fine – I’m fine. How are you?” Rex was clearly not doing all that well. His face was smudged with dirt and dust, and a small cut had opened [...]

My submission for allguiness.com’s Guestwriter Contest v.RX7 (Wankle) is now up on his site.

I’m not sure, but I think these people may exist: Ambi Masterson, the Magnificent Jedi Sighthound Rex Masterson’s dog. A Cirneco dell’Etna with keen intelligence and a colorful dog coat for cold weather, Ambi is featured extensively in the “Go Ambi Go!” line of picture books popular with first through third graders at the Jedi [...]

(this was originally going to be the ‘Special Atonement Edition’ but I didn’t get the plot to where it needed to be ’til now. Let he who has ears hear…) I found myself in the interior of a largish horse-drawn coach. My head was still dazed with pain as I watched a tall, gaunt man [...]

( read ‘em all) “Well at least they didn’t kill us,” said Rex hopefully. “At least not yet. When that whale decides that Anne is not the same Anne as the Anne he knew, then he will be killing us,” Ghyslain said despondently, “they took my light saber. I hate it when they take my [...]

Sarah: I just don’t know Willem: Aw, come on. Sarah: I feel it would be deeply dishonest – like I’d be living a lie. Willem: How can you say that when the genius of this plan lies in its stunning sincerity? Sarah: Well… Willem: Look, it’s easy: You go to the door. You knock on [...]

(Just for instance, here’s the Kathy/Rex thing) I was so busy backing the Force Adept into a corner that I didn’t even notice the Dark Jedi had thrown his light saber at me – let alone realize its trajectory traced a broad loop and that it was now heading directly at the back of my [...]