The Eagle & Child

Remember that time that I posted about how much I like melancholic maritime fiction?  No, well, I did.  Today Rilla posted this on my Facebook wall.  It is both AWESOME and hilarious, mostly because it’s an incredibly accurate summary of the genre. In other words, it’s funny ’cause it’s true.  Of course, if you’ve never read [...]

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Came across these during some morning “fun” (i.e. non-assignment) reading this morning. II I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will. * * * IV What consolation it [...]

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He awoke with the realization that he had brewed a pot of tea some hours before but had forgotten to pour himself a cup; the pot had gone to waste.  This startling thought hung about him, solid against the cool air drifting in one window, across the bed, and out the other. A gust of [...]

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I woke up this morning to a shocking news story (and not just because the word “shocker” is in the headline): Archie shocker: Comic book hero picks Veronica In what’s being billed the “Archie Story of the Century,” perennially indecisive loverboy Archie Andrews has finally chosen the raven-haired Veronica Lodge over sunny girl-next-door Betty Cooper, [...]

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New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson have kissed and made up, so to speak, and Jackson is now set to direct and produce a 2-part film version of The Hobbit. I’m a little surprised that they are making it a two-part film. When you consider that The Lord of the Rings, which is significantly longer [...]

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from the Incomplete Works of Marc Vandersluys After suffocating and scalping him, the murderer scooped out the victim’s brains with a melon-baller and used it to make what would have in less gruesome circumstances been a beautiful presentation on a dinner plate, complete with a sprig of pasley and a slice of lemon. What made [...]

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from The Incomplete Works of Marc Vandersluys They call him The Camel. That moniker has an air of mystery about it, rendering its bearer somewhat exotic in the minds of those who hear it, but make no mistake: it is a most literal appellation, given because the man’s moustache enables him to go long periods [...]

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