A few notes as of late:

Creepshow II is on. Best short story from this collection is The Raft. It scared the crap out of me as a kid. I love swimming and have swam in just about every lake, beach, cement pond, and what have you around my home state and during my travels. One of my irrational fears is formless blob monsters that eat you alive in a slow and icky manner. I blame this fear on my older brother who gave me the option of taking a nap or watching The Blob when he was babysitting me -I believe I was about four at the time. I still can't watch those movies. Especially the 80s revamp of it where it became that much more icky and evil. Anyhoo! I added irrational fear of living swamp blobs to my list of boogy monsters from my youth.

I have been soliciting my tarot cards to publishers, but in the mean time I'm printing up some proto-types of my own to see what they'll be like. These will be limited edition, signed and noted and all that good collectible stuff. They'll be wrapped in silk (someone told me this was an old traditional for some fortune tellers and their decks) and come in a custom made/decorated wooden storage box. There will be a few other perks as there typically always are when I release a special item. Stop by my website blog (bethalynnebajema.com/scriptorium) for details and ordering options. Only five are available for now and I've sold two of the five already.

Copies of my second book should be arriving any day now. Once I fill my pre-sale orders the book will be back up again for general purchase. It's full of new work and all kinds of lovely and eccentric items courtesy of my alter ego Etta Diem. We've also been making a variety of charms, decorations and what have you for Diem's notorious cursed and charmed insect tools, shears and skeleton keys. I've got some pictures of them on my site blog's current projects page.

To your left you're looking at an image of one of my dark airship captains. This on is Dread. It has quite a reputation. I say it because Dread has not been proven to be either sex. Plus, Dread doesn't speak. Somehow it manages to easily convey its needs and demands from mind to mind. Dread's the best understood captain to have ever lived, and it has never needed to whisper a word to do so.

Last, but far from least, some parting urls for you:

The Secret Adventure Mission Generator
My fiancee's quirky labor/coding of love. Share your adventure results and please share the link.

The Concubines of the Red Dragon
"The red dragon’s native tongue was fire and for every soft and seductive word he spoke to his concubines each carried a small burn. His poetry had stripped the supple skin from the first lover’s lower back, all along the line where he whispered his thoughtful words. His quiet love songs sung for the benefit of the moonlight left rippling scars along the neckline of his second lover. Each concubine over looked the pain and abuse their skin suffered, a small sacrifice each was willing to make to allow their dragon his seduction." -New artwork and a snippet of writing from one of the first pinup type paintings I've done in awhile. Myspace deletes my artwork if it looks like the figure in it has breasts, let alone actually publishing nudity (of course cam girls and myspace whores can post a gyno look at their missus and it stays online. I've never known a site with more shifty TOS policies and mixed degrees of enforcing them, hypocrites). So visit my site to see it.

That's about all for me for the moment. There are actually real entries on my site's blog for anyone who cares about such things. I hope you're all well and good. Please take care yee noodles, one and all.