...with a female Paladin disguised as a man, sent by the ghost of Merlin the magician, meeting up with a halfling Thief, both of them competing to rescue a mixed-race Warrior, who is also a descendant of Hector and Andromache of Troy (their son Astyanax was secretly saved and hidden from the Greeks along with Hector's sword, which is an Augmented ( Read more... )

An enormous thank-you to all donors: even if it weren't as bad an economic time as it is your generosity would be wonderful. In the absence of a social safety net with less hole than mesh, it's overwhelming ( Read more... )

Concerning pop culture, the tech bubble, the internet economy, the music industry's current state, the blogosphere, IP rights controversies, the publishing industry, the printing industry, the stock market, bankruptcies, venture capitalism, and cash cows in general, from the pages of a magazine that survived for nearly 200 years of publication ( Read more... )

Taking a brief break from TEH SRS before buckling down to work on even more of the big messy linkful stuff, I leave you with some amusing links this afternoon - including this blast from the recent past: I had remembered that the, ahem, exposure of Mr. Barberini Faun, aka Jim/Jeff/Gannon/Guckert of "Talon News", came about after he asked a " ( Read more... )

Here we have publius at ObWi saying: (emphasis mine)

Anyway, once you’ve had these experiences, it’s beyond disgusting to see, for instance, the rabid gay-bashing of 2004, or the immigrant-bashing of 2005, or the “Barack Hussein Obama” business, or the audacity of an idiot vice presidential candidate claiming that Obama “pals around” with ( Read more... )

Unconventional female sexuality, center-left politics, and political patronage linked in cartoon of the Duchess of Devonshire and her protege the Right Honorable Charles Fox - who scandalized British politics by dressing up* like one of George Washington's soldiers (!) to show his opposition to the War - depicted as a suckling pig (or a wolf in ( Read more... )

Charlemagne was poly, a remarried divorcé, and a child-molester.

Who slaughtered POWs and gave people the choice of joining his religion or being killed.

But he was a European Christian and a folk-hero from whom many (some of whom are certainly entitled) proudly claim descent today, so it's not to be mentioned, any of this ( Read more... )

targeting female scientists, no less--

(via Feminist SF)

Oh, and fans of historic children's book illustration, here's a newly-discovered site with some two dozen large scans of Ivan Bilibin's turn of the century graphics. It's Czech (I think) but that shouldn't be a problem.

As promised, here are some pics from the car show downtown - a solid mile of road lined both sides with antique and classic automobiles from all decades, plus motorbikes, with hot dog stands and popcorn and collectibles stands and the greyhound rescue folks and all the trappings of a fairground, just on the main drag of the biggest city in the ( Read more... )

I know there are a few readers in New England on my flist, and possibly more who lurk, so just to let y'all know, if you're coming to Manchester be forewarned that Elm St. is closed between the Bridge Street Bridge and the Granite Street Bridge due to an Antique & Classic Car show. So plan for detours, and if you're thinking about coming to see ( Read more... )