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Ooooh, football season!

I usually make some kind of quasi-official (read: half-assed) prediction of how the Buffalo Bills will do each season, so here it is, even though I’m not returning to blogging about each individual game. My new rule, as stated a … Continue reading

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Caillou in Inappropriate Places

Here’s an awful thing that popped into my head one day that I couldn’t resist: using Photofiltre to insert Caillou, everybody’s least-favorite four-year-old, into terrible scenes from history. I’ve been doing this on Tumblr, and here are the ones I’ve … Continue reading

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Sentential Links

It’s that time again…. :: Clearly Someone Didn’t Want The Saxophone To Be Invented (Wow. Just…wow.) :: In my career, I’ve been on the other side numerous times. I’ve been the one reading and judging. I always write nice rejection … Continue reading

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Answers, the seventh!

Continuing the answers! Andy asked: Have you ever thought about self publishing your novel and bypassing all the rejections the clowns at the publishing companies give ya?????? Oh, yes, I have indeed. And yes, I will self-publish…but only when I … Continue reading

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Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome!

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Old School FRP is a Tumblr blog devoted to vintage art and paraphernalia from the early days of role playing games — think late 1970s and early 1980s. This is the image that greeted me … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of those composers who seems to exist in his own world, related to but not quite part of everything that was going on around him at the time. I often find in him a dreamy, … Continue reading

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

What would you rather have named after you: a military maneuver (“The Picard Maneuver”), or a breakthrough medical procedure (“Tommy John surgery”)? (I’ll assume nobody wants to have a disease named for them.)

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Answers, the sixth!

A couple answers to questions from e-mail! (Anonymity requested.) Do you know car makes and models? Do you feel strongly about what vehicle you have (or would like to have), or are you more indifferent? I’m not terribly knowledgeable about … Continue reading

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Merton’s Heart

The Buffalo News ran this fascinating article about Thomas Merton, who lived for a time in Olean, NY and worked at St. Bonaventure University, from where my father has recently retired. My first part-time job was in that school’s library, … Continue reading

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Sentential Links

Linkage…. :: I wish I knew then what I know now – that nothing can be fixed without first looking at what’s broken. :: I was reading some old ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ last night, and it suddenly struck me … Continue reading

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