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English Premiere League Standings – 8/20/05 Team Pts 1 Tottenham 6 2 Charlton 6 3 Man Utd 6 4 West Ham 4 5 Man City 4 6 West Brom 4 7 Liverpool 4 8 Blackburn 3 9 Arsenal 3 10 Chelsea 3 11 [...]
Perhaps it’s fitting, but I don’t quite know how to feel about slipstream stories. Before Clarion, I hadn’t even heard of slipstream. Now that I’m much more aware of things going in the spec fic genre (and with the realization that I’ve been writing spec fic all along) I’m personally convinced that slipstream is more [...]
No, this isn’t Eddie Munster. The figure to the left is Mexian Referee Marco Rodriguez. He gets paid $15,000 USD for each American player decapitated. I don’t want to suggest that Mexican referee crew are historically biased against the US because it’s not just the Mexicans; it’s also the Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, Jamaicans, El Salvadorans, [...]
I just browsed through the World Cup qualifiers today and I have to say I’m a little disgusted when I realized that Asia is guaranteed four spots with a play-off for a fifth. Allow me to explain why that’s annoying. Here’s how WCQ shakes out: Africa 5 teams Asia 4.5 teams Europe 14 North America [...]
You know who doesn’t get nearly enough props? Glorfindel, that’s who. Everything about the problem of the two Glorfindels aside, I can’t think of a single character of Tolkien’s who is central to so much of the action yet gets virtually no credit whatsoever. Glorfindel achieved three major deeds in his life(s). In chronological order: [...]
Many writers say that if things aren’t going well, just keep plugging away. What you write when you think you’re doing awesome isn’t that much different than when you’re really struggling. I’m proving that theory wrong. So I’ve mentioned this story that was rather complicated and was really flowing. I’d written 4K words in a [...]
Just wanted to highly recommend the following: 1) Open Media Player of Your Choice and Create New Playlist 2) Add All Uncle Tupelo Songs 3) Add All Son Volt Songs 4) Add All Wilco Songs 5) Save 6) Make Sure the Player is Set for Random/Shuffle and Continuous Play 7) Play (Presently, I’m having a [...]
I’ve got a non-fiction article on J.R.R. Tolkien appearing in the most recent version of Shadows of Saturn. Kind of funny how it happened. Peter had an article fall through at virtually the last minute and asked if I might have any Tolkien essay lying around and, because I’m a nerd, I do. The article [...]
…it’s Yosemite! As in, Oh My God Not Yosemite! I’ve been to Yosemite twice and both times had the average Yosemite experience — drive into the valley, take a couple dayhikes, gawk, etc. Although the second time it did snow heavily in the Valley and we were one of the last cars they let on [...]