Extra Credit
So. Let’s suggest that a person owns a perfectly ordinary beverage container, holding two quarts (64 oz.), with a mouth about two inches in diameter, and a rectangular body about, oh, five inches by three and a half or so….
Fantasy
Bye-the-bye, just in case some Gentle Reader thought that YHB was enough of a political nerd to join a Fantasy Congress league, the answer is no. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
Book Report: A Dirty Job
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Speaking of genre fights, is A Dirty Job generally considered to be a fantasy novel? I mean, it is a fantasy novel, but is it in the genre? By the way, talking about YHB’s reaction to this book entails talking…
Book Report: Justice Hall
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OK, here’s the thing: I’ve read Justice Hall four or five times by now, and this last time through, like the previous time and I think the time before that, I absolutely could not remember who the Bad Guy was….
Book Report: Untold Stories
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Do you ever wonder about Monty Python and Beyond the Fringe? The Python boys, successful in a couple of review-shows, wound up together working on a television show that was insanely influential, made a couple of tremendous movies, and then…
Book Report: The Night of the Triffids
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Your Humble Blogger should probably admit it. The only reason I picked up The Day of the Triffids at the local library was because I had already picked up The Night of the Triffids, and figured I should read them…
the point is left as an exercise for the Gentle Reader
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Today’s Torah discussion was … wide-ranging. Not terribly deep, but we covered a lot of ground, and there were a couple of very interesting bits. We worked from the Haftorah portion, from 1Kings 8; the actual reading starts at verse…
Stake. Out.
Your Humble Blogger can’t remember which particular links led to Dana Milbank’s Washington Post column Retreating to Small Talk When the News Isn’t So Good, in which he observes that in a press conference on Wednesday, Our Only President mentioned…
Book Report: The Day of the Triffids
Your Humble Blogger had never read The Day of the Triffids before, nor seen the movie. I know, I know. Ambulatory plants that spit poison and kill. Why hadn’t I read it when I was fourteen? Why wasn’t it at…
Book Report: Blue Light
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To be fair, whilst whinging about how certain books of specfic are not given their due in fannish circles (unless, of course, they are, because I’m not very far in any fannish circles these days), I should admit that Blue…