qblog

There are many blogs called qblog, because there are many people called q who have little imagination. This is the one which belongs to me, the person sometimes known as »Q«. I live in New Orleans, where I can usually be found drinking too much coffee and sometimes be found drinking too much whiskey. Other stuff of mine lives on the intertubes right where you might expect it.

qblog uses WordPress. Thanks to its atrocious record of unpatched security vulnerabilities, I humbly request that you please not hack qblog and I recommend against using WordPress yourself.

In case you want to e-mail me, I’ve got a contact page.

I’m not signed up with any of the so-called social networking sites. Here’s what I guess I’d put on a facebook/friendster/myspace page if there were a gun to my head:

Authors: E. Hemingway, M. Peake, W.T. Vollmann, E.R. Eddison, M. Chabon, S. Heaney.

Authors, a tier or more down: Christopher Moore, G.R.R. Martin, Alan Moore, Peter David, Jack Vance, Tolkien.

Books: Hope Mirlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist, Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, James Blaylock’s The Last Coin.

More books:  I have a profile at goodreads.com.

Movies: Whale’s “Frankenstein”, most Kubric, most Mel Brooks.

TV: I don’t watch TV.

Music: R.E.M., The Who, John Mooney, Donovan, George Porter, James Hunter, once-upon-a-time Liz Phair, Van the Man, James Brown, Fish-era Marillion, Soul Rebels, Digital Underground, KISS, Mark Knopfler, Corey Harris, on and on.

Heroes from childhood: Mohammad Ali, Evel Knievel.