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1: My wonderful family.
2: My great friends.
3: The fact that there keeps being music I haven't heard.
4: Tea. Yeah, really.
5: Hanging out with my brother, riffing off each other.
6: Cooking.
7: People who have much more patience with me than I probably deserve.
8: Getting to write as part of my job.
9: A home I can stand being in.
10: Essen SPIEL.
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I'm happy to report that my Christmas-baking is a success. I made some with chocolate chips (which I obtained by beating a chocolate bar with a hammer), and some with licorice and icing. 

Today I bought a chair because of a book.

A huge tome arrived yesterday morning (at 2:30 in the morning according to track&trace!): THE TIME TRAVELLER'S ALMANAC: The Ultimate Treasury of Time Travel Stories. It's in hardcover and weighs in at 900-odd pages.
It'll be a treat to read, as you'll no doubt agree. Just look at this stonking table of ( Read more... )

 
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My humble contribution to Nerdy Ninth (yesterday) is all about Fighting Fantasy.

Fighting Fantasy, you know those British game books from the eighties (and a lesser extent the nineties). I have played some fifteen of them, tops. By far the greater portion of them take place in the fantasy world of Titan. It's a wild world, largely without the ( Read more... )

I'd like to see an episode of Midsomer Murders where they acknowledge what kind of place Midsomer really is.

"Look, Sir! The Midsomer Spudston Potato & Yam Fair is this week. Isn't your wife goi..."

"She BLOODY WELL isn't! I'll tell you who's going1 The Causton Riot Squad, that's who! I wanna curfew on Midsomer Wotsit. I want anyone competing in ( Read more... )

If you take part in the Black Friday fracas, do be careful.

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So, went to see Black Sabbath last night. there was a big turnout, and the majority seemed to be 40+. It had thought I'd see more metal-hippies and sludge-punks with Bozzov*en and Saint Vitus patches on their denim cuts, but no. The audience wasn't terribly subculture.

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