An often-overlooked fanzine is Fang, Claw, and Steel: Modern Lycanthrope Review. It is described as"...a small press zine devoted to positive portrayals of werewolves and other werecreatures. [The 'zine] features articles, artwork, stories, and interviews about werewolves, werecougars, werefoxes, weregnus, werewasps, and werewithal. The lycanthropes appearing in these pages can be heroes, workers, diplomats, homemakers, or anything under the sun (or moon). But they are generally not Hollywood-esque monsters. That type of lycanthrope already gets too much exposure." The 'zine is put out by Terry Wessner, and he is always looking for submissions.

Salon is running an excellent interview with Ray Bradbury today, author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and scores of other novels and short stories. The man is 81, recovering from a stroke, and still incredibly coherent. He reminds me of what I thought when I saw Frank Kelly Freas on a panel at last year's Worldcon: if you're in love with what you do, you stay present.

Today's (Thursday, 30 August)

Good Morning Silicon Valley

has an interesting short article and collection of links about the pig-human hybrids of last year, the future of animal-human hybrids, and the responses of Jeremy Rifkin. See the article "Pig-human hybrids: the other, other white meat...".

I just think this is the coolest stuff. If I didn't already have a similar dragon made of clay and fur, I'd seriously consider buying one of Caligan's Creations. Totally bendable dragonets in satin and metallic cloths. You can commission one in your favorite colors or buy one that comes up for auction.