Sweary History with James Fell

This post is for paid subscribers Okay final post about the London trip, a week after getting home, because holy shit what a week. I had to go through another editor’s pass on book with a 48 hour turnaround, all the testing to get the new website live in time for the People magazine piece, then jumping into being a shameless marketing ho to make sure GSR…

And the company you keep Jesus was publicly executed. There are those who deny Jesus ever existed, citing a lack of contemporary written sources and thereby holding Jesus’s existence to a standard of proof beyond that of most anyone in history, considering the era, and his much lower level of fame at the time of his death.

No I’m not going to show you the cover here. You need to click the damn link because People Magazine got the exclusive on the cover reveal, and how fucking cool is that? Almost as cool as the cover. The designers came up with six choices and everyone at the publisher and my agent’s team (and me) were unanimous in saying, “This one.” This is the link to the People Magazine story. It tells a nice little story about how writing this book fried the shit out of my brain, but the book is still good.

This post is for paid subscribers Tomorrow is launch day for the presale of Greedy Sexist Religious Bigots: A History of Humanity. And since you folks are paid subscribers, you get the announcement in advance. First thing is that People magazine is doing the exclusive cover reveal. That is supposed to happen tomorrow morning, with some kind of write up a…

This post is for paid subscribers I’m back home from London and getting over the jet lag. Yesterday I did a 65km bike ride, managed to stay up until 9, then zonked out until 5:15am so I think I’m mostly over it. Anyway, I saw a few of these posters while in England. They were all defaced like this one.

Last time the sale was just Amazon, but not it seems like On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down is on sale as an ebook all over fuckin’ creation. It’s just $1.99 for a limited time. Here is the Amazon US link. And Amazon Canada Amazon UK — This one is actually only £0.99. Amazon Australia And you can also get it for cheap at Amazon Spain or Germany or wherever the fuck. But if You’re NOT an Amazon / Kindle person, it’s also on sale for $1.99 at: Kobo Barnes & Noble It’s also on Apple Books for $1.99.

This post is for paid subscribers Holy shit my feet hurt. According to my phone I’ve walked 92km in the last seven days. And a lot of time is standing and looking at shit too. I have more tales to share but I’m typing this one up prior to my last night and programming it to run while I’m on the flight home. So, day 3 was a trip to Greenwich Village.

This post is for paid subscribers Shown: Photographic evidence that Lucy is not always ridiculously cute. She was a stinky girl and needed a bath, her disapproval over which is clearly evident upon her face. In Greedy Sexist Religious Bigots, in the first chapter, I reference Thomas Hobbes who said that life in the Stone Age was “nasty, brutish, and shor…

This post is for paid subscribers My apologies for being absent. Lotta shit has been going on. The good news is I’ve collected plenty of stories so will soon be sharing them. I’ll begin with a short tale of dogs and heroes. As you might have guessed, I’m currently in London. My wife is here for a medical conference and I am tagging along.

Today in history, kind of, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The year was 1752, and it involved skipping eleven days, jumping from September 2 to September 14. Can we do something like that and just skip the rest of this entire fucking year? --On This Day in History Shit Went Down: September 14, 1752-- Fucking calendars, man. Like, why is OCTOber not the eighth month? And how come DECember isn’t the tenth month? I hope whoever was responsible for that bullshit got fucking stabbed.