A Little Vacation

2011-07-27

After a pretty lively week, Werewolf News is going back on a bit of a break until August 2nd – I am headed to the heat and humidity of Chicago. I’ve got some cool stuff lined up for when I get back, though, including the introduction of a special guest column that will run for the better part of a year. See you next Tuesday!

Werewolf News gets a redesign

2011-07-21

Werewolf News lurched its way onto the web in 2008, and it’s had the same design the whole time – a design I sketched out on a DoubleTree notepad while stuck on a flight from Colorado. After three years and over 500 posts I thought it might be time for a redesign, so here it is! I’ve centered the layout, reduced the clutter, improved the typography (no more white text on black), moved the commenting system to the Disqus platform (don’t…
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Track 1 of David Bowie’s album “Hunky Dory”

2011-07-18

Just a heads-up: the site will be getting a visual and functional overhaul over the week, and things might look a little weird in the meantime. For instance, I upgraded the commenting system over the weekend, but it’ll look a little weird until I can theme it properly. Don’t be frightened.

Supernatural Registration Authority to donate all March proceeds to Red Cross Japan Disaster Fund

2011-03-12

Hey everyone. I’m doing a thing over on that other site I run to try and help the relief effort currently underway in Japan. Friday’s earthquake and the subsequent tsunami (and potentially imminent nuclear disaster) are going to take a lot of time, effort and money to clean up. If you’d like to help, you can donate directly to the American or Canadian Red Cross (the UK Red Cross isn’t yet accepting donations for Japan specifically) or you can buy…
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Say “Hi” to the new Comic Book Guy

2011-02-23

Greetings, wolf-fans. I’d like to introduce myself; I’m Mike, and I’ve been a fan of the site for some time, and a fan of werewolves for considerably longer — say around 15 or 16 years. I got talking to Andrew on Twitter, and approached him about doing some writing here. After some discussion, he recruited me — well, I say recruited, there was some biting involved — and here I am. For the time being, I’ve been assigned to review…
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Two Years of Werewolf News

2010-04-22

I just realized that this site is now two years old. That’s like 41 in Internet Years! It’s almost time for the midlife crisis thing where I do a full redesign and create an iPhone app or something. Thanks for reading, commenting, submitting things, following along on Twitter and indulging my occasional weeks-long lapses into silence. Thanks also for your support and kind words when bad things happen. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from creating and maintaining this site,…
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Out With The Furballs, In With The Fangs

2010-04-01

I’ve given it a lot of thought, and there’s just no denying the truth anymore: I’m sick of werewolves. They’re boring. They’re silly. They’re ugly and hairy and dumb, and no amount of highbrow back-to-nature hippie crap can redeem them in the face of what we all know to be true: vampires are awesome. Anne Rice made them sexy, Stephanie Meyer made them trendy, and that bad boy Robert Pattinson made them dangerous. Sexy trendy danger, that’s what these mysterious…
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Goodbye, Friend

2010-02-08

Keesha passed away today. Her cancer spread too far, too quickly, and her quality of life declined so rapidly it seemed like she was disappearing before our eyes. This past weekend we made the difficult decision to help end her pain, and today at 4:30 PM the incomparable Dr. Pollen of the Vancouver Animal Wellness Hospital administered drugs that first put Keesha to sleep, then sent her to wherever it is that excellent dogs go when they leave this life….
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I’m Sick; Keesha’s Getting Better

2010-01-27

Just a brief note here to thank everyone who’s sent well-wishes and donations to us over our dog Keesha. She fell ill while I was away on a business trip, leaving my wife Tandye to look after her; now that I’m back, Keesha’s condition has stabilized, and actually seems to be improving a bit, and Tandye’s looking after me. I managed to catch some kind of British super-virus chest cold that makes me sound like the wheezy dog from Howl’s…
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Our Dog Needs Help

2010-01-21

We have a dog, Keesha, who has been my wife’s close companion for over 16 years. While I’ve been abroad, Keesha has developed significant breathing problems, and after a trip to the vet it was ascertained that she either has pneumonia or cancer. An expensive test is required to determine which it is, and by extension whether we can help her get better or simply help her be comfortable. This has hit us both hard, but particularly my wife, who…
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