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Oaks.
So yesterday was pretty fun, though I'm certainly suffering under the effects of that fun's aftermath this morning. Let me do it in pieces, because the idea of writing everything all at once sounds...
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Everything from the Ting Tings to Ted Leo & the Pharmacists.
I don't...I don't really understand last night. I mean, I had a revelation, a moment, like a piecing bolt of lightning, where I wasn't a sociopath? Where I was like "it is like all of these...
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Catching up with Tor.com (26)
Three Hearts, Three Lions by Poul Anderson.Three magical swords:Mercy, Joy & Endurance."Same steel & temper."The next part of "Advanced Readings in Dungeons & Dragons" is Three Hearts,...
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Oubiette: Endurance.
In my last post about Derived Attributes, I off-handedly mentioned Endurance & said I'd talk more about it later. Well, here we are; let's talk about encumbrance. To the crux of the matter; armor...
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The Seal of Metatron.
I watched the second Silent Hill movie, Silent Hill: Revelation, the other day. It was alright; a lot more like a horror movie than the first one, though. I'm not really a horror movie kind of guy....
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The Wasteland.
Yesterday I was watching Ze Frank give a TED Talk & he challenged people to use Google street view to follow a path they used to take when they were a kid. So I did. Well, sort of; there hasn't...
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WWZ.
I reviewed the World War Z movie for Tor.com. Also, here is my book review from 2007.
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Partytown, USA.
Oh ooph, I can definitely tell that I was up too late & that I drank too much. Yowza. Yesterday was a jam packed little half-day Friday. I left work & got lunch & a drink at Beecher's with...
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Freddy Mercury & Ziggy Stardust (27).
Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Lieber.Our monster girlfriends!the albino were-rat &the transparent ghoul!My next entry in Advanced Readings in Dungeons & Dragons for Tor.com is Fritz Lieber's...
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I Am Very Sunburnt.
Spent the Fourth of July at Robert & Judy's with the usual holiday tribe.Then had a Beach Day with Jennifer, ranai, fatbutts&James.I saw a shark, & swam out to the sand bar four times,...
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Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?
I've been bad at keeping up with writing here, mostly because I haven't had all that many discreet data points to draw together into some kind of cohesive whole. We are watching The West Wing& that...
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From an email.
Dweebs: did you read The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson? It is hilariously a trilogy of huge thousand page doorstop sized books...about the feud between Leibniz & Newton over who invented...
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Always Be Catching Up.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.CITIZENS OF MARS!Woe! The King of Mars is dead!Weep for Abraham!I wrote about Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars series on Tor.com with Tim. You know I...
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The Reaper's Scythe.
Well! The last time I saw scythrop was shortly after having three titanium plates put into my skull. He was the first person I saw after I had "recovered," though if memory serves, I was already...
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Oubliette Session Five: The Suffering Lands.
After far too long of a hiatus-- in large part due to Strange Tales of Preston Stagger& general lazybones-- we finally met & resumed the current Oubliette campaign! "We" is a slightly different...
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Lo, a Jetpack.
You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld.Lord Borax & Urt,Haahoū, Unit333.Our fictional gods.I didn't have a lot to say when I blogged about Goliath& I don't have a lot to say now....
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The Monkey King!
Last night I went to go see Monkey: Journey to the West with Jennifer. It has been pretty thoroughly advertised in the city, but in case you don't know what it is-- it is basically Chinese opera &...
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Manannán mac Lir Led Them Here.
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe.People of Danu,sing your songs in Tír na nÓg:The Appalachians.This was my pick for Eleven-Books Club, my third pick after China Miéville's Kraken& the first...
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Warp Frenzy!
The Eleven-Books Club meeting for Alex Bledsoe's The Hum & the Shiver was yesterday. Getting there was a bit of a series of misadventures: CFL lightbulbs are supposed to last like nine years, but...
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