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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Water We Fighting For?
Typo of the day: Tuhursday (for an intended Thursday). Easily fixed, but now I’m wondering who Tuhur was. Mr. Internet tells me it’s a Sundanese word meaning “dry”. Maybe Tuhur was the archenemy of that Wonder Twin who turned into … Continue reading
Posted in cartoon, language, Typo of the Day, words
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Dumkupf vs. Laocoön
A cartoon from an old (1927-vintage) issue of The New Yorker. It made me smile, even though it’s probably supposed to appeal to class and ethnic biases. “Look, my dear friend Amaryllis Partington-Smith-Symythe-Vanderbilt-Smythington-Smyth–a banausic of foreign abstraction, decorating his shop-window … Continue reading
Posted in academia, ancient art, art, cartoon, Myth & Legend
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De Rerum Natura
A wonderfully cool day for July here in the Great Black Swamp—the high temp around 75ºF (≈ 24ºC). I opened all the windows in my bookroom, so now I can hear the musical sounds of people mowing their dumb lawns … Continue reading
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Adventures in Entropy
My son Nick claims that I have an entropic field that causes things to break down in my presence. There’s a lot of evidence to support this. Today, for instance, I discovered a new method of breaking the department printer. … Continue reading
Of Eeels and Miracles
The Surprised Eel on their Patreon gives us a very nice piece of writing that usefully complicates some over-simplified worldmaking advice. One thing that leapt out at me was this: “Of course, your fantasy world doesn’t have to work like … Continue reading
Bookalanche!
Past Me is sometimes a deadly enemy. For instance, he only left me two pieces of pizza from the other night so that I could celebrate the first day of True Summer with the Breakfast of Champions–cold pizza and hot … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, fantasy, fantasy art, magic, Myth & Legend, sff, sword-and-sorcery
Tagged Edmond Hamilton, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Rosel George Brown
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“I’m Unavailable.”
The Dudley Moore Trio, which I did not know was a thing, plays an instrumental version of “Bedazzled”.
Posted in music, Myth & Legend, sff
Tagged Bedazzled, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook
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