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Return to Greece
This month my friends and I visited Greece–instead of a mainland journey as I’ve previously taken, we took an odyssey to the islands. As it turns out, our voyage was in the midst of a heat wave that has since … Continue reading
Foraging, Sturbridge, Indy 5
For research, I took a foraging class this month to learn how to identify local edible plants. The lecture portion covered everything from stinging nettle (which is remarkably nutritious) to mushroom identification, and even how to make medicinal salves from … Continue reading
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Tagged connecticut foraging club, dial of destiny, foraging, indy 5, old sturbridge village, raiders of the lost ark, sturbridge, temple of doom
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Italian Zombies, Dread Machine, Demeter, Censorship
I’m excited to announce that I’ve sold the next story in my Italian-hitman-in-the-zombie-apocalypse odyssey for the New York Times-bestselling Black Tide Rising series. Entitled “Isle of Masks and Blood”, the story moves the action from Umbria to Venice (one of … Continue reading
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Tagged black tide rising, censorship, darkness blooms, descent into the underworld, dread machine, isle of masks and blood, last voyage of the demeter, united we stand, we shall rise, zombies
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We Will Sound Strange to the Future
“People in the past had a strange way talking.” And that’s precisely what people in the future will say about us. We eat hot dogs that contain no dog, and hamburgers that have no ham. Buffalo wings are not made … Continue reading
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Field Mice, Lovecraftian Plants, ChatGPT
Dear field mouse who keeps building a lair in my car’s air-filter: I appreciate the need to have a sanctuary. My town contains a veritable bestiary of threats to mouse-kind, so I am not unsympathetic. Between snakes and birds and … Continue reading
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Cunk, Cats, Titanic, and Howlers
If laughter is the best medicine, then Netflix’s mockumentary “Cunk on Earth” is the perfect dose. This is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in a very long time. Playing like a hybrid of Monty Python and Stephen Colbert, … Continue reading
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Tagged baen books, cats, chicken soup for the soul, cunk on earth, cyrus, diane morgan, howlers in the void, netflix, philomena cunk, titanic, worlds long lost
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The Witcher, and Howlers in the Void
Henry Cavill’s departure from The Witcher, allegedly because he was unhappy with how the writers were deviating from the source material (something that was obvious from Season 1), brings to mind an ongoing complaint I have about adaptations in general: … Continue reading
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Tagged ghostbusters, henry cavill, howlers in the void, mass effect, Star Trek, Star Wars, witcher
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Year in Review, Science was Awesome in 2022
In 2022, I spent time in Austria, Bavaria, Hawaii, Virginia, and Washington DC. I had poke bowls in Honolulu, explored a 500-year-old salt mine in Berchtesgaden, and ate my first Sachertorte in a Viennese café. I attended a New York … Continue reading
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James Bond and All the Things
I’m an unabashed James Bond fan. It goes beyond the longevity of the series–60 years as of this writing. Growing up, I read the original Ian Fleming novels handed down to me from my father, and eventually entered 007’s cinematic … Continue reading
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Tagged 007, Daniel Craig, george lazenby, James Bond, pierce brosnan, roger moore, sean connery, timothy dalton
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Vienna, Bavaria, and Redspace Rising Wows the Critics
Donna and I decided to voyage to Vienna, for the signing of the Sokovia Accords. 🙂 The city of music and Hapsburg opulence, shelled by Napoleon and half-obliterated by World War 2, Vienna is a study in contrast: centuries-old architecture … Continue reading
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Tagged austria, bavaria, iran, mark kurlansky, redspace rising, salt, salt mine, theocracy
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