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I love quotations pick up from any novels or poems. 

This one is, fairly remarkable, from a novel titled to "Fall of Kings" by David Gemmell

'We ought to call it something,'said Banokles thoughtfully. 'We can't just keep calling it "that big bastard horse". It ought to have a name.'

'What do you suggest?'

'Arse Face.'

Listening to Serge Gainsbourg with reading belgian comic strip is one of the most fantastic feeling in my life...

 Serge Gainsbourg - Marilou sous La neige

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnkIKn6UPw

I would like to read 'Blake and Mortimer' as well by Edgar P. Jacobs. Somebody...help me... :)

I put down my name for the Del Rey Internet Newsletter (DRIN), since some months before, so I get newsletters at every month about their new publication. Everything was started when I have heard about the Suvudu, what means you can read books for free in internet.

I checked the site, then, somehow I registered my ID for them. Since then, I continously get these letters regarding to Del Rey Books.. Because I have seen a good title by T.A. Pratt, called 'Blood Engine' and registration was needed to read it ( http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553589986 )

(Suvudu (means the freebooks) belongs to Random House Publisher, while Del Rey is a a branch of Random House specializing in fantasy and science fiction books, founded by Lester and Judy Lynn del Rey. And Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. http://www.randomhouse.com/   )

So all I wanted to tell that the following instruction was the part of one of the newsletter writen by Alisa Sheckley, author of The Better to Hold You and Moonburn.

So....

WEREWOLVES: 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

1. First of all, make sure of the diagnosis. Over the past five hundred years, there have been quite a few documented cases of people who believed that they had turned into wolves, but by and large, these folks were mistaken. You don’t want to go confusing pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia with lycanthropy. Just because a guy starts letting his beard grow, sleeping in cemeteries and howling at the moon doesn’t mean he’s a werewolf – he might just be a borderline type who dropped some bad wormwood.

  2. Wormwood, often associated with werewolves, is a cerebral stimulant, and has been used in the making of absinthe. Mandrake root, another element in werewolf lore, has narcotic properties. Draw your own conclusions.

  3. The “were” in werewolf is Old English for “man.” So if you run into someone described as “Sheila, the voluptuous werecat,” you can’t say you weren’t warned.

  4. Once you eat human flesh, you can never go back. According to many werewolf legends, some werewolves must spend a certain amount of time in bestial form, but can return to full humanity – so long as they don’t eat the two-legged pork.

  5. Never Trust a Man in a Girdle: Before Hollywood established lycanthropy as a bloodborne affliction, it was believed that werewolves shifted by donning a wolfskin, a girdle, or the skin of a hanged man.

And 1 Thing You Should Bear in Mind About Coyotes:

Just as the Native American trickster god Coyote was thought to live in the liminal state between the realm of the humans and that of the gods, real coyotes are managing to survive on the borders of our towns and suburbs, throwing their voices to misdirect us, springing our traps, and dining out on our poor little inbred lapdogs and housecats.

Resources:

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1950

A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, edited by Charlotte F. Otten, Dorset Press, NY, 1986

Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

It's so lovely...