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December 2nd, 2006

Yeah, I know. To quote my boy Jim Anchower, it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya….I haven’t posted anything here in nearly two months, which in the hyperaccelerated, Singularity-bound, short-attention-spanned bloggerworld is an friggin’ eternity. No doubt y’all have forgotten about your homie Mr. Pegritz, just like, earlier in this decade, y’all forgot about Dre. That’s okay. I‘ve forgotten about myself, too! The past two months have been really busy for your boy Flava Pegg: I’ve been teaching steadily - and very busily - at Waynesburg College, working on a great deal of fiction, nonfiction (and NONFICTION!), and of course music. I’ve been writing occasional reviews of wonderful new, or nearly-new, music over at The Spacing Guild Guide to Good Music…but, really, that’s about the extent of my internet publication for the past two months.

But fear not, Loyal - and, no doubt, Infrequent - Readers! During my absence, as I noted, I’ve been particularly busy…and soon you’ll begin to see the fruits of my long-suffering, bloody-fingered (and -minded) labours. I’ve been writing a number of long essays concerning everything from the tragic shadow-lives of former students to the Horrors of Medical Insurance, Asian horror flicks, and the abject necessity of human upgrading and enhancement in the coming Accelerated decades.

As many of you know, however, my first great love is fiction - in particular, Lovecraftian fiction. However, I must admit: much like HPL himself, I have a longstandiong guilty…wait a second - I have no sense of guilt! Lurid, horribly-written pulp fiction and penny-dreadfuls like Varney, the Vampire: or, The Feast of Blood and anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a straight-up honest pleasure of mine. I just can’t get enough awful dialogue, ludicrous cliffhangers, and…of course, six-breasted Venusian women. So check it out: I’ve decided to write a serial pulp-fiction/alternate-history adventure novel involving Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself as a character - as well as Percival Lowell, Emily Bronte, a society of semi-robotic British analytical-engineers, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, the continent of Atlantis/R’Lyeh, Planet X, Wells’ invading Martians, and Kong Kong! The novel is going to be called Howard Phillips and the Flowers of Yuggoth, and will soon be debuting on a subdomain of this site. There will be twelve chapters, each to be published on the first of the month from January of 2007 until December of 2007.

Best of all, this novel is going to be taking advantage of all of the many possibilities inherent in web-publishing and RSS serialization/syndication. What does that mean, exactly? you ask. Well…tune in and find out! I’m certain you’ll be quite enthralled and excited!

So keep your eyes and aggregators peeled to PEGRITZ(.com)!, ’cause there’s gonna be some serious Pegritzian heat coming your way soon. Word to your mothers.

By Derek C. F. Pegritz on December 2nd, 2006 | Scategory: Site Admin Crap |