LATEST PAGE ADDITIONS January 11, 2010--  I'm happy to say that one of my plays has been accepted for the Greenbrier Valley Theatre's second annual New Voices Original Short Play Festival later this month.  This play's called "...and Tigers and Bears" and is a thematic sequel to last year's accepted play "...to a Flame," though with none of the same characters.  (This, I guess, is another entry in what seems to be developing into The Ellipses Cycle of cryptozoological-based plays set in West Virginia.)  While "...to a Flame" was about WV's infamous Mothman, "...and Tigers and Bears" is about the various African lion sightings that happened in Greenbrier County while I was living there and (coincidentally enough) happened last year in Bluefield, VA, just across the state line from where I live now.  In fact, the receptionist at my wife's office was one of the people who saw the lion, catching sight of it on her way to work as it was gnawing on a cow in a pasture not far from her neighborhood.  It scared her half to death.  My version is, of course, a light comedy.  Shows are January 21-23 and January 28-30 at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in downtown Lewisburg.   In related creative news, I'll be doing a reading of some sort at the Arts Day at the Capitol event in Charleston on January 25, 20110.  Not sure what I'll do yet or whether it will be of a Horribly True Nature. 9/5/09  Unlike most Twittererers, who tend to enjoy tweeting about their opinions on paint chips, how many toblerones they've eaten that day, or the number of squirrels currently menacing them, I have chosen a different creative route for my subject matter.  It is entitled THINGS YOU FORGOT.  TYF covers a wide range of trivial information, some of which might even be accurate depending on which parallel earth you happen to reside upon, other than our own. 9/5/09  I have also stepped into the Facebook river and am all socially networked, and stuff.  9/5/09  The WV Writers Podcast continues apace.  We post brand new, 20 minute episodes every other week and mini-bonus outtake episodes in the off weeks in between.  4/23/09  I've taken my first step into podcasting with the WV Writers Podcast.  This weekly podcast is in promotion of both WV Writers, Inc. and its upcoming writers conference June 12-14, 2009 at Cedar Lakes Conference Center in Ripley, WV.  The podcast updates each Friday at 6:03a. 5/8/07 Great Googally Moogaly, it's been another six months since the last update!  That's just terrible.  Okay, so here's an update in honor of the fact that I've now aquired the domain name MrHerman.com, formerly owned by some Canadian web guy who was determined to sew confusion.  This update is also in honor of the fact that Dr. Larry Davis is now reading my site and knows some of the characters in this story.  It's a previously unchronicled Horribly True Tale called "The Talkin? Mount Childless Wonder, Mama?s Little baby Loves Ziggurats, Emergency Baby-Sitting the Borg Blues" 11/2/07  Sweet merciful crap, it's been nine months since the last page update? Whooooo, that's a lotta months. Time for a page update!   Let's see... what to update.... what to update...  Well, I haven't had any Horribly True Tales for a while.  Let's throw up a couple new ones in that department. We've got:  The Talkin? No Distant Networks , Phoning up India, Won?t be a Problem, Fighting with The Man, DIRECTV SUCKS ASS, Pooping an Angry Monkey Blues, detailing my battles with DIRECTV (which indeed sucks much ass). And then we have a more recent tale, The Talkin' Soul-Less Telemarketer, Actual Fantasy Conversations Not Actually Heard at My House Blues. Oh, the pain. So, feast ye mighty and despair upon these tales, my jainkees! 3/20/07 Updated the Catgames page with a brand new Hate Mail Page, preserving the insults and threats against my person in perpetuity.  (Or, at least until they burn down my hosting provider in protest.)  This one is almost as funny as the emails I keep getting from some Canadian guy who thinks the Ed Herman of this page is also the Ed Herman from Ultimate Fighting Championship. 9/4/06 Updated the Catgames page with several brand new catgames.  Feast your eyes on them HERE. 7/31/06 Updated the links page for the first time in fordamnever.  Ditched some broken links, added some new links and defecated a whole live monkey.  Now THAT was an adventure. Speakin' of Adventures, one of my short stories, "...to a flame",  was recently published in an  anthology we at WV Writers, Inc. put together called Mountain Voices.  If you buy a copy from the Authorhouse site above, all profits from the book will go to help support WV Writers. 5/24/06 Added two of my published book reviews to the site.  One is for Belinda Anderson's latest short story collection The Bingo Cheaters.  The other is a collection of illustrated stories by the late Shel Silverstein entitled Runny Babbit. 5/10/06 Hola, and welcome to yet another long overdue update.  This time I've restructured my photoblog feature.  No longer will it be a single picture that never gets updated.  Now it shall be a whole page of pictures that never get updated.  This is known as progress. 4/3/06 Good day, and welcome to a long overdue update.  I've added a new short story to the Prose Page entitled Blueberry Radio.  No fantasy or sci-fi elements present.  Just good old fashioned gossip-mongering over sweet delectible berry bushes.  Well, okay, there is one sci-fi element, but you have to pay attention or you'll miss it. 9/13/05 added a new short story to the Prose Page.  This one is called Old Country and is a tale set in 1980s New Auckland involving creepy old ladies, the mafia and a quilt.  Though this tale is firmly set in the Avatar Universe, it stands on its own. 8 / 7 / 05 Mister Herman's Swag Shop is now open for business and Mister Herman T-Shirts, coffee mugs, buttons and magnets featuring the Mister Herman Partially Deflated Smiley Balloon Universal Symbol of Warped Optimism are here for the taking.  (By "taking", we of course mean "purchase".)  When I announced the shop here last week, I had originally intended to use it to raise a little extra cash.  7/30/05 It occurred to me the other day that my website has been around in one form or another for 10 years now.  That's a decade to you and me.  I figured at the least I should do up some new graphics to celebrate.  Then I figured, why not sell some T-shirts and coffee mugs and make a little green on the side.   Which brings me to... Mister Herman's Swag Shop will be going live on Sunday, August 7, 2005.   We'll have lots of Mister Herman T-Shirts, coffee mugs, buttons and magnets featuring the Mister Herman Partially Deflated Smiley Balloon Universal Symbol of Warped Optimism.  This will be an ongoing venture and I'm already designing some limited edition merchandise for you fans of the Cat Games and Recipes Page.  So come back in a week for all the details and then you too can start swanking up your pad with Mister Herman swag.