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Well the con summer 2026 is over for me so let's get some thoughts out on everything in one go. Confuzzled 2026 (photo by Stormfloof) Confuzzled is the old reliable. I've been attending the convention almost annually since 2009 (only...
Nine years ago I made a godpole and put it into a forest. Two months ago I vanished.
Brumble Quest is a peculiar inclusion in Plaid Hat’s catalog. Unlike their other touchstones, whether expandable duelers like Ashes and Summoner Wars or comedy adventures in the vein of Forgotten Waters, it’s a diminutive thing with...
I'm not a bike guy. I don't know what brand my seat is. I think my gears are Shamano. (That's a brand, right?) I think that's how it's spelled. I'm not going to look it up. I saw it on the window of a bike shop once. I think that's what...
When you see a Supported Living place, you may see outdoor furniture placed outside. However, neither the local authority nor the landlord will be upfront about how it’s managed. With St. Thomas House in North Walsham, it was “donated”...
The debut issue of "Terminal," arrives in comic shops in two days. Skybound (an imprint of Image), putting out this new series, was kind enough to send digital copies out for the purpose of review more than a month before the book was...
AntC sent me a link to this RNZ story by Layla Bailey-McDowell, saying “This is one of those silly gossip-magazine ‘competitions’ that I wouldn’t bother with except a word in Te Reo Māori is the winner. (Also a Welsh word came third.)”...
Recently, there has been a wave of Democratic Socialist candidates displacing their usually much older establishment predecessors. The results of Colorado primaries, I found quite symbolic. A sitting congresswoman DeGette got primaried...
The Snow Day That Told Me Something Was OffIt's snowing hard enough that I'm not braving traffic to get to the gym. Too cold in the garage to tinker with anything. No new book on the nightstand, nothing worth watching on TV. So I do the...
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Chthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace. Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane webbing chitin-barbed tentacles. In sharp contrast to their gloomy exterior, a darkmantle's...
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An un-bylined report from Calgary.tech: Apple will make a rare conference appearance in Calgary next week, joining the inaugural Swift Rockies gathering for iOS developers at the Calgary Zoo. Taking place July 22 and 23, Swift Rockies is...
I read that the first proper analysis of the Constantinople synaxarion – list of saints, quick details, and their saints’ day – is that in the Acta Sanctorum by H. Delahaye: Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanum e codice Sirmondiano...
Diana Novak Jones, Reuters: Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state’s claims that Instagram’s design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several trials in the coming weeks testing allegations...