The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog"

So I'm reading ANCIENT JEWISH MAGIC and Gideon Bohak, the author, is telling of an " erotic spell" in which a charm is writt...

Let's cover a variety of topics! We have nowhere to go. 1. I was reading the New York Times on my phone just like a teenager and I saw ...

Last night in THE ILIAD , these horses started crying. These were some upset horses, I tell you! "Hot tears flowed from their weeping ...

You know, whenever I think about the word "hoary," which I do several times a day, as we all do, I think of it in pejorative term...

Hey! Remember when I predicted THE ILIAD was going to have an owl in it ? And I put it on my big list of books with owls in them before I ...

My current "daytime book" is... listen! I'm just going to cut-and-paste an email I sent to McNeil : "I was reading a boo...

I think I could teach one of our cats to play volleyball.

Yesterday I got a promotional email from Square Books , saying that Gin Phillips would be on the Thacker Mountain radio show. And I was lik...

Reading Tacitus , I get to a part where this guy dreams there's gold buried under his field. So he runs up to Nero like Chicken Little ...

I owe you (?) the end of Dolon's tale. Come on, you know Dolon! Everybody's favorite character in THE ILIAD? The man with the poleca...

I was reading THE ILIAD last night and here come Diomedes and Odysseus , sneaking off to spy on the Trojans. As encouragement, Athena send...

When I was growing up, there was a local grocery store Mom didn't like. It's still there and she still doesn't like it. But now...

Remember when I live-tweeted KING RALPH ? Well, your good friend Elon Musk certainly put an end to all that , didn't he? Now I just tex...

Speaking of M&Ms and unpublished novels , one of my unpublished novels contains this paragraph: "I thought up a commercial where a ...

I just saw a commercial indicating, or so I thought, that there are purple M&Ms. I felt very upset because no one tells me anything. Th...

Here's something that blew my mind and maybe it will blow yours. But I doubt it! Your mind can't be blown, can it? You've seen i...

You know, and these are the words you've been longing to hear, I believe I will tell you something about McNeil's dream of Dolores H...

Just when I thought I would have nothing to "blog" about today, McNeil reports having a dream about Bob AND Dolores Hope! Now, ...

Here's something uninteresting. Yesterday, having mentioned Patrick Swayze on the "blog" for no reason , I included a "hy...

Hey! So, you know, I'm reading THE ILIAD last night, because I'm the biggest egghead going, and Helen says "my dog -face self...