So I'm at a meeting with a salesman who's trying to sell us a new computer application etc. He's demonstrating features on a big computer screen ( Read more... )

What D&D class is immune to clerical paralysis?

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Piers Anthony's But What of Earth? is an astonishing book, a novel he had originally written in the '70s and which was subsequently rewritten at the publisher's insistence but apparently without Anthony's permission. This got Anthony's dander up, and now, 13 years later, he has his revenge. In this book he lashes out at not only his publisher and ( Read more... )

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I watched The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) the other day, and it was pretty bad, but that's not the point. At a certain point, you will recall, Anne Boleyn for various reasons tries to get her brother George secretly to father an heir on her, but he can't bring himself to go through with it ( Read more... )

The big disappointment this month was Paul Fussell's Class. prettyoctopussy recommended this book to me after I read Brooks's Bobos in Paradise, and it took me three years to obtain a copy, so I was pretty amped up, but ( Read more... )

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What psychotic clown controls the Marvel universe?

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A friend of mine, who will remain anonymous but who is a lawyer in D.C., met a drunk crazy person who told him about her website, which he promptly submitted to Something Awful, and lo, it is now their link of the day.

I'm not sure what she's talking about. It's almost as though it makes no sense.

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