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Category Archives: Crosspost to LJ
Multiply Variety in a Wilderness of Custards?
Although, like the universal world, I am on Twitter, I don’t usually post my tweets here. For one thing, some of them are parts of particular conversations that don’t make much sense without a context (e.g. “BUT YOU SAID YOU … Continue reading
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Should Have Been 4 Posts
1. Last Friday was the best Fall-of-Sauron Day ever. No, I can’t talk about it. But someday the world will know, and then it will say, “What is he talking about again?” 2. You know how it is when somebody … Continue reading
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Batman Strikes Out, and 2 Pix
I rewatched Batman Returns recently. It’s a visually beautiful movie. It reminded me constantly of an over-the-top production of an opera–an impression helped along by a lushly operatic soundtrack by Danny Elfman. For visual effects CGI can’t rival, the movie … Continue reading
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Thinking…
Springy thoughts in the Great Black Swamp.
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Putting the Just in Adjustment
The Adjustment Bureau, like every third movie out of Hollywood these days, is based on a Philip K. Dick story I haven’t read (in this case “Adjustment Team”). I have to admit that the Great Dickening of our times baffles … Continue reading
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Hey, Kids! Let’s talk about BLOOD LIBEL!
Blood libel has been in the news lately because of its unfortunate use by Sarah Palin, apostle to the Mama Grizzlies. The unexpected benefit from this has been an outburst of history in news outlets that don’t normally contemplate the … Continue reading
We Interrupt This Lack of Message…
… to wish a merry Christmas to those who celebrate, a great weekend to all.
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Three (?) Things
Thing 1. I’ve been sneaking back into blogging by bookblogging a little bit. My latest effort is a review of Bujold’s Cryoburn at the Blog Gate. And a whilish while ago I posted some babble about Cabell at the same … Continue reading
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The One and Only Twain
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is not Twain’s greatest work, and a lot of it has seen the light of day before. But earlier editions distorted the book in … Continue reading
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