The Cry of the Town Crier: Oyez, oyez!

Oyez, oyez! 
In the Empress' name, be it known she has honoured us by naming her new clipper ship the Ottumununggungdammerungdungeon, after the very town we call home. Hail the Empress! Hail Ottumununggungdammerungdungon! 
 

Ye Old EBN

Wow, it's been over 20 years since I was publishing my own little newsletter, Blazing Earl News. I sent it out to about two dozen friends. I think Andrea designed this particular logo. Or was it Sean?

Blogging made EBN redundant, though I do miss the little frills of desktop publishing - mostly the freedom of creating your own layouts.

Best of all, though, were the contributions from my friends. Now, that was fun; in a sense, I was the smallest-time editor ever. But I had a great time doing it. 

Blazing Earl News Logo

Way back in the mid 1990s, I produced Blazing Earl News, a silly newsletter I sent out to about a dozen friends on a very irregular schedule. In 1996 I ran a logo contest, won by Jim MacDonald. Here he is accepting his "award," bad PhotoShop and all.

And here's the logo Jim designed:

Pretty snazzy!

The Earliad exists because I really enjoyed producing Blazing Earl News, and I wanted to continue publishing nonsense for the enjoyment (?) of my friends. 

Redjac Revealed

Back in the 90s, before the blogging era, I used to produce a photocopied newsletter called Blazing Earl News and mail it to my friends. One recurring story featured the immolation of a rubber Spider-Man figure my brother or I found lying in the street; we put him in a Star Wars Droid factory, lined up a bunch of action figures as the audience, set Spider-Man afire and photographed the event. Later I decided that there had to be a reason for the mostly heroic figures to participate in such a time, so I surmised that one of them had been possessed by Redjac, AKA Jack the Ripper as portrayed in the original Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold." Still reading? You're probably not Sylvia, then. In any event, to accompany the story I used Microsoft paint to depict the shocking revelation that Redjac had possessed Captain Kirk himself. Why everyone else went along with the burning was never revealed.

Apathy-osis

As requested by Steve, I have transformed an old airshow photo into a book cover. Perhaps Stephen will even write it - he's very good!