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Kitchens are like sword-and-sorcery
Cooking is all seat-of-the-pants and improvisation. Half the time, I start chopping ingredients before I'm quite sure what it is I'm making. You have to be flexible and adapt to the available ingredients and tools. It's like swordfighting in that respect ( Read more... ) -
Reversing the Wheel of Time
Echoed from Words: the typings of a madman:Gordrog finished his chant. Traveling to the distant grave had taken all day. There had been hours of preparation. The candles had been placed at the precise locations to funnel the spirit of the dead back into its abandoned body. The incense had been checked to be just right. The skull of power had been ( Read more... ) -
Empire Wine
Echoed from Words: the typings of a madman:"This," said the sommelier, "is a bottle of Empire Wine." He held the thick crystal bottle up to the light, turning it slowly, and the glowing liquid within coursed like yellow fire and molten gold. "Only seven were ever made, and three have already been drunk ( Read more... ) -
You can't handle the tooth.
Echoed from Words: the typings of a madman:The beaver is North America's deadliest predator. It can fire its explosive front teeth up to thirty meters with unerring precision, and each one packs enough force to down a grizzly bear. Grizzlies are their primary diet, and a beaver can devour a bear carcass in under fifteen minutes. It is ( Read more... ) -
Editors used to be ordinary people?
Echoed from Words: the typings of a madman:
Voltraut von Prusser clacked her fingers over the key caps of her laptop. Clack, clack, and it was done-another chapter of Blood Slaves of the Ice Witch lay complete. Sighing, she leaned back and cracked her fingers. From outside, she heard the distant bleating of Steven Brust's goat. Naturally, her ( Read more... ) -
Chuck Ballooniac's Guts
All scholars of the literary works of Crumbly Snickerdoodle agree that the Holy Grail of their research would be to find a copy of Chuck Ballooniac's Guts, his first children's book about an overweight boy who avenges himself upon his tormemtors. Sadly, all known copies were burned to ashes by the League for all that is Good and Decent. Imagine ( Read more... ) -
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I don't normally post to LJ, but this has me so pissed, everyone needs to hear about it. From the NoOnProp8.com email I got:
If lies don't work, then maybe threats and blackmail will.
Yesterday, donors and supporters of Equality California began receiving threatening letters for their support of the statewide organizations efforts to protect LGBT ( Read more... )