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Jonathan L. Howard
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I write novels & games. Johannes Cabal, Carter & Lovecraft, THE SHADOW ON THE GLASS for "Call of Cthulhu," Russalka, Kyth the Taker, Goon Squad, co-wrote BROKEN SWORD I-III, principal writer on ATOMFALL. All my fault. Sorry.
UK. Portrait: Small Robot
Shurrup and eat your pie barm.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Well, I reckon it's...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right wing tabloids could at least make a vague pretence of not just transcribing Tufton Street's approved talking points for their headlines. Whichever towering intellect came up with "Benefit Street" must have been braying with joy this morning.
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Four spaceships to introduce me.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It seems self-evident to me that Anguirus refers to Godzilla as "Big G," and Godzilla refers to Anguirus as "Spike."
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
*Looks feverishly at you from his incredibly complex conspiracy connections board*

There are no coincidences.

Everything is connected.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
One of these days I'll finally place this novel. It's not bad, I think. #RichardMalengine
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Major battle to keep it down to four, but:

EXCALIBUR (1981)
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)
RE-ANIMATOR (1985)
ALICE (1988)

I've seen all of these more times than I can recall.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This made me think of THE TWILIGHT ZONE again, and my counterfactual where Rod Serling develops a spin-off series DEVLIN & SMITH where Julie Newmar and Burgess Meredith reprise their roles as the devils Miss Devlin and Mr Smith, sent to Earth to spread chaos as a team, but they loathe one another.
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"It was just sitting unclaimed in a safety deposit box unopened since 1945, so we thought, eh, whatever, give it to Trump. He likes shiny things."
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Mr Howard's coffee table bore a copy of a book primarily concerned with the nature of machine intelligence and a learned thesis on a race of genocidal cyborgs. I saw no relationship between the two and did not comment upon them."
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Isn't it gorgeous? Pure functionality lends an air of "rightness" to any design. The Gannet was devised in 1945 as an anti-submarine warfare aircraft and stayed in service for decades after. Its great endurance also made it useful as a courier for lugging mail, gear, and personnel around.
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Butter pie.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
*Looks at prodigious "To Be Built" pile of model kits.*

"Well, that should keep me busy for a good while. I certainly don't need any more."

Suddenly...

"Noooooooooooooooooooo!"
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
What movie villain is a horrible person, but an absolute joy to watch on screen? (I haven't seen the new FRANKENSTEIN yet and I'm sure Isaac is brilliant, but, y'know, our boy Cushing was no slouch either).
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It had to be done.

Well, it probably didn't, but I did it anyway in a spirit of pure awkwardness. #DEVO
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
For a change of pace, rather than watching kaiju kick nine shades out of one another, I cued up THE LOST WORLDS OF GERRY ANDERSON and watched the pilot (and only episode) of THE INVESTIGATOR (1972) for the first time. I suspect there won't be a second.
Gerry... mate... Wtf?
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Morgan Freeman voiceover: It was, in fact, about a sandwich.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I meant to illustrate my point about ma boi Caesar perhaps not being the most awe-inspiring kaiju with a pic. He looks meaner in his post-Showa era appearances, but here he looks like a dreadful accident in a dog grooming parlour.
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hold on... hold on... wait just a minute...
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The divine sense of lightness that accompanies that most holy of moments, the wazzing of the MS at your editor.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Heh. Apparently copies of the Daily Mail are being given sly wraparounds by activists. Most accurate cover story it's had in years.
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It would, of course, be cynical of me to think the real concern here is the resale of empty upscale properties bought as investments which may now be a tad harder to sell on in future. A moment, please, while I fetch my tiniest violin.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Well. Two days later the the Mail still thinks this story is of concern to anyone but its owner and its Editor-in-Chief. You will be astonished to learn that this "Havoc" the headline speaks of has gone unreported elsewhere, and the estate agency they quote deals primarily in London mansions.
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
At what point do those who partake of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday realise that its concerns are only ever accidentally theirs, but really reflect what exercise the ire of the owner - the Viscount Rothermere - and his very wealthy Editor-in-Chief and attack dog, Paul Dacre?
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM