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Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos

Pahua and the Dragon’s Secret, by Lori M. Lee – In the second book of this series, Pahua Moua, the reincarnation of the great Hmong warrior Shee Yee, wants to enroll in a school for shamans. In order to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hmong, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged aliens, ankh-morpork, arthur rackham, bad prince charlie, bookshops and bonedust, coffee, dragons, dwarves, elves, eurovision, gnomes, goblins, homunculus, john moore, legends and lattes, lori m. lee, metagalactic grand prix, necromancers, nine goblins, octopath traveler, orcs, pahua and the dragon's secret, rattkins, rick riordan presents, skeletons, space oddity, space opera, succubus, t. kingfisher, tapenti, travis baldree, trolls, unicorns, ursula vernon, wizards |

Put a Zork in It

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii |

The World Is a Very Scarry Place

I’ll occasionally see references to Richard Scarry on Twitter or some other site, and I can definitely remember growing up with his books. I’m sure a lot of people can; they’re just the sort of thing people give to kids. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Families, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Television | Tagged anthropomorphism, apes, baboons, bananas gorilla, bears, best counting book ever, birds, busytown, cars and trucks and things that go, cats, chickens, dingo dog, dogs, elephants, fireflies, foxes, gorillas, hippopotamus, huckle cat, hyenas, lowly worm, mice, mr. frumble, pigs, rabbits, richard scarry, so long and thanks for all the fish, three beggars, wolves, worms |

Birds in Perspex Come Alive

Writing about music is pretty difficult. Sometimes I just can’t describe what I like or dislike about something I’ve listened to, maybe partially because I’m just not that knowledgeable about music theory and terminology. It also generally takes several listens … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Authors, Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Music, Robyn Hitchcock, Star Wars | Tagged birds in perspex, janelle monae, life the universe and everything, metropolis saga, michael stipe, of montreal, perspex, perspex island, respect, robots, science fiction, simon and garfunkel, the archandroid |

House of Reptile-sentatives

The idea that the governments of the world are secretly controlled by lizard people is most prominently supported by David Icke, a former soccer player and sports broadcaster. That’s what comes of letting him hit the ball with his head. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Chrono Trigger, Conspiracy Theories, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Prejudice, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Theosophy, Video Games | Tagged alexander the great, aliens, antisemitism, apollo, caesar augustus, cecrops, david icke, draco, evil harry dread, king bowser koopa, kull of atlantis, lamia, lemuria, lizard people, nagas, olympias, protocols of the elders of zion, reptiles, reptilian humanoids, reptites, robert e. howard, serpent men, snakes, the last hero, the shadow kingdom, zeus |

I’m on Top of the World

I saw a link on Twitter to this article on Ancient Origins, a site that presumably isn’t always reliable. What it says here seems to have all been verified elsewhere, however, with nothing about aliens building the pyramids or anything. … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Babylonian, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Douglas Adams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, History, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Islam, Judaism, Maps, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged cartography, delphi, ethnocentrism, europe, flat earth, geography, golgafrinchans, imago mundi, jerusalem, kaaba, london, mecca, milky way galaxy, prime meridian, river euphrates, sin, zeus |

Hey, Mr. Eurovision Song Contest Man

Noir, by Christopher Moore – As can be guessed from the title, this is basically Moore’s take on the noir genre, but not the hard-boiled detective variety so much as the normal guy who has stuff happen to him. Set … Continue reading →

Don’t Hate, Annotate

When I was growing up, my grandmother had a copy of The Annotated Alice, with annotations by Martin Gardner. I found it incredibly fascinating, and I later read his Annotated Hunting of the Snark as well. I don’t think I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Christianity, Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Lewis Carroll, Poetry, Religion | Tagged annotations, g.k. chesterton, martin gardner, samuel taylor coleridge, the annotated alice, the annotated ancient mariner, the annotated thursday, the hunting of the snark, the man who was thursday, the rime of the ancient mariner |

Let There Be Jobs

I found a link on Twitter to this article, which raises some points I’ve thought about before, and also some others I hadn’t really. I’ve considered before the possibility that there just aren’t enough jobs to go around in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Capitalism, Cartoons, Corporations, Current Events, Douglas Adams, Economics, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Politics, Real Time with Bill Maher, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged bill maher, business, david graeber, donald trump, economic recovery, golgafrinchans, job creation, obamacare, president barack obama, the restaurant at the end of the universe, trickle-down economics, unemployment, work |

Nonsense That Makes Sense

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth |