Near Term Event: ConFinement VI
I will be attending ConFinement VI, February 28-March 2. I’m scheduled for a panel on Friday. We’ll see if I’ll sit in on any others.
February 2, 2025
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Technical Difficulties
The Web Log is experiencing technical difficulties. Please check back next week for something more entertaining than this boring note.
January 26, 2025
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January Update
To anyone looking it might not appear that I’m doing any writing. But I am. The staring at the walls or spending entirely too long
January 19, 2025
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Fifty Years Later: “Boneland.”
A few months back I read Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, both of which I considered here. In 2012,
January 12, 2025
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Red Moon and Black Mountain
Joy Chant’s Red Moon and Black Mountain is a book I wanted to like more than I actually did. I’ve a notion that timing is
January 5, 2025
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A Cimmerian Christmas
Conan wished he was in Argos, or perhaps even Kush. Anywhere warm. Cimmeria was no place to spend the winter. Cold, gray, bleak. And direly
December 29, 2024
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Cirsova Winter 2024 Issue
Just in time for Christmas I bring you an unalloyed self-promotional post. God bless us everyone! And especially me. The winter edition of Cirsova magazine
December 22, 2024
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A Long Expected Party
My grandmother celebrated her centennial on Friday. It isn’t precisely eleventy-one years, but it is an impressive span nonetheless. And she is still chugging along.
December 15, 2024
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Alan Garner’s “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen” and “The Moon of Gomrath.”
The cover of the 1960 Ace paperback of Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen guaranteed I’d pick this up when I found it in a
December 8, 2024
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