October 04, 2008: Old Epic Fantasy Re-Reads

Every once and a while I re-read old books that I’ve always liked. This time it’s David Edding’s epic fantasy storyline starting with the 5 book series The Belgariad, continuing in the 5 book series the Malloreon, and also continuing on in Belgarath The Sorcerer, and finally in Polgara The Sorceress. The original [...]

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October 03, 2008: The Graveyard Book

I finally pulled the Graveyard Book out of the smoldering remains of my backpack. It’ll have to wait on my “to read” list until I finish my newest book club selections. October’s selections include:
In the Fantasy category:
Acacia by David Anthony Durham
In the Sci-Fi category:
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Interesting facts about the author: [...]

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October 02, 2008: A Brief History of Time part 3

In honor of my catch-up game of speed posting I’ll introduce (and complete) today’s post with a brief look at important events from October 2nd across the ages. You can just insert this at the end of Stephen Hawking’s book.
1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1187 Sultan Saladin [...]

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October 01, 2008: Epic Threadbanger Halloween Party

Lindsey, Rob, and Corinne have been clawing their eyes out with Erin to get the biggest most epic Halloween party together for Threadbanger (Rob and Corinne’s show). If you’re in the greater NYC area the week of Halloween be sure to come by the party. It’s open to the public. Make sure [...]

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September 30, 2008: Neil Gaiman and His Graveyard Book Stop By

So recently Neil Gaiman stopped by Columbia (at Teacher’s College) for a reading of his new novel The Graveyard Book. Needless to say I was excited. Not only is his other work collectively awesome, I also got to hear him read from an unfinished Graveyard book back at New York Comic Con (Early [...]

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September 29, 2008: Old Houses and New Apartments

Lindsey and Andrew made it back to Andrew’s and my parent’s house yesterday. If you live in the greater Springfield area feel free to demand a drive-by from them. They’re back on the occasion of Nicole’s wedding. Andrew is serving as the bride’s boy and chief architect of the bachelor party. [...]

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September 28, 2008: International Tiger Day

Today is officially International Tiger Day. Seriously. This is of course, not to be confused with International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
So drink some rum mateys and salute all majestic species of Tiger. Yarrr!

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September 27, 2008: KOTOR Lives On

Lucasarts and Bioware just annouced a new star wars online role playing game based on the Knights of The Old Republic universe (KOTOR). If you haven’t played the original, it was voted one of the best games…ever…for any platform. You can feel free to disregard it’s sequel. Which sucked.

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September 26, 2008: Bio Beer makes Eco Frat Boys Cheer Across The Nation

Apparently there’s some sort of new Eco Beer that contains the cancer fighting agent “resveratrol”. You’ll remember that name because resveratrol is the reason why wine has anti-cancer properties. So that’s why those annoying frat boys have such unfortunate longevity. Make sure to swap that annoying co-workers resveratrol-enhanced beer for a nice [...]

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