Monthly Archives: August 2014

Bookshelf: Apuleius

The climax of The Golden Ass is when Lucius is transformed from donkey back to human form by the goddess Isis, in order to be initiated.  Here’s what he says about the rites directly: “Listen then, but believe; for what … Continue reading

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Soundly

P.S. Do you know, I meant to hurl that nasty statuette into the tall grass, but I suppose I must have forgotten to do so? As I lay down on my saddle blankets, I saw it crouching at the edges … Continue reading

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Everything

“Immo vero” inquam “Impertite sermonis non quidem curiosum, sed qui velim scire vel cuncta vel certe plurima…” “No, please,” I said, “let me in on this — not that I’m nosy, it’s just that I’m the sort of person who … Continue reading

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Top 5 Tips

See it on YouTube — come find me at SLComicCon to discuss.

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Gangrene

This year, the Gangrene  Film Festival is branching out by adding a second day (August 30) that will be a Creative Symposium.  I’ll be part of the symposium, first doing a Choose Your Own Apocalypse event with the Space Balrogs … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: This Darkness Light

Not content to start his latest with a bang, Michaelbrent Collings starts it with three simultaneous explosions: a vacillating U.S. president apparently led by a mysterious person known only as ‘X’ into authorizing missile strikes on a civilian population against … Continue reading

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What Has Happened

I’ve just finished reading Rust Hills’s book Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular.  I’ve quoted him a few times, and could have quoted him more; I feel compelled to wind up my reading with the sharing of … Continue reading

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The Less Clear We’d Be

“It’s true that the basic way we know the personality of others is by their behavior, but we are often aware of a discrepancy between our own horrid actions and our own nice selves, and we can sometimes extend this … Continue reading

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Contrast

I am reading this: This is my book mark:  

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Hey, Look

I’m going to be at Salt Lake City Comic Con.  

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