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A Minor Rant
Forgive me if I’m crabby. Car issues abound. They were already abounding (that’s a word, I said so, if morons can make “conversate” a word I can use “abounding”) and then I got rearended on the way home from work Thursday. Eh, shit happens. They call them accidents, right? And this guy was much nicer…
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Review: The Jongurian Mission
This book tore me in half. The story is great and kept me involved, but two things were, to me, very distracting; if not for those I would have said 4.5 stars. First, far too much description. We’re a third of the way into the book before the story gets going. Pages upon pages describing…
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An excerpt….
…because it’s been a while. From A Break In The Balance: Trials of a Demon Prince I Tierta backtracked along Justice Road until she reached a narrow cross street, little more than an alley. As she studied the windows above, she removed the adhesive from her belt pouch and liberally coated both gloves and boots.…
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Haunting: Forest Park
I admit, I’ve not gone very far in. Not deep enough to find the desecrated statues (one headless, one with no head or hands). Some of that is fear, although admittedly, more fear of the law than of ghosts. And a tiny bit is fear of ghosts, only in that the cemetery is so insanely…
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Review: The Garden On Sunset
I tore through this in a day. Something a little different (although it did put me in mind of Sunset Blvd, one of my favorite classics). Follows 3 friends who come to Hollywood in the late 20’s and into the early 30’s, with a wonderful feel for all of them trying to break into the…
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A Retrospect on EQ
I’ve played Everquest since 2001, and still play. People have tried to get me into WoW, but I’ve never had interest. I’ve played dozens of other games….and even liked most of them. But Everquest just keeps me coming back. No, I’m not a fanboy. Not by a longshot. I won’t pay $40 for the lastest…
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More haunting stuff
So if you’re into ghost hunting on your own…I don’t know, most places you’ll need permission to get into. I certainly wouldn’t condone sneaking/breaking into….anything…would I? Well, cemeteries are public ground, during hours. I have run into massive activity up behind Russell Sage’s mausoleum. (Trivia for you. The guy was completely against women being educated. …
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Something to think on
I thought of this after…well, it was either after I watched The Conjuring, or after I read the book 207. For the unenlightened, 207 was written by a local woman who lived at 207 19th St, Watervliet, which was where RiteAid now stands. It’s a haunting/possession true-story thing. It’s a good read, but I have…
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Enough, already.
Winter, I’m talking about you. My street looks like a band of one-eyed chimpanzees attacked it with broken shovels. Parking is worse than ever. Wind chill advisory? Telling us a completely different temperature because that single digit one isn’t depressing enough? Naming winter storms? Are they not newsworthy if they don’t have an actual name? …
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Undead Oz…another blip
“It will be safe as houses once we have it,” Tinna said in a sweet, cajoling voice. “After all, we’re going to bring it back to the Wizard, and it was his to begin with, so he should have it, right?” “Back! Opals!” bawled Monk. “Is that why you’re traveling without your bingos? Are they…
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