Lunar New Year Readings, #37: The Twits, by Roald Dahl

I’m starting to feel a little silly including these short childrens’ books on my Lunar New Year readings list, but (a) I wanted to create a log of all the books I read in the Lunar Year from 2005-2006, and (b) I really do want to achieve my goal of reading 50 books in that [...]

Lunar New Year Readings, #36: High Society by Dave Sim

High Society is a book I should have reviewed last summer. I read it in Saskatoon, in fact finishing it the night before I departed on a flight to Montreal, and forgot to review it when, a few days later, I arrived back in Jeonju. Only when looking into another graphic novel I picked up [...]

More Sidebar Pics

I’ve added a bunch more sidebar pics to the mix; if you’re curious, hit reload a few times to see some of the new shots I’ve added. Some will be familiar to longtime readers, because they’re shots I originally used in my banners in the old format. Others are new. My favorite is the dragonfly [...]

Weird Things You Learn Reading Comic Books Graphic Novels

Wearing silk beneath a suit of armor can make the removal of arrowheads much less damaging and much easier, since the head of the arrow gets “wrapped” in the miniscule threads of the silk. No, really.
Learned that little fact in David Mack’s Kabuki, Vol 1: Circle of Blood graphic novel, which is not what [...]

Christmas Essays and More

via The Electric Smack Shack, two great articles on Christma:

Bah, Humbug - The horrors of December in a one-party state, by Christopher Hitchens
Eluding Happiness: A Buddhist Problem with Christmas, by Jesse Row

And finally, some amusing Stalinist pseudoscience: I can’t say I’m surprised but it still makes one shake one’s head.

Dungeons and Dragons: Loving Mockeries

Via Dan Among Den, here are some fun mockeries of D&D using the same script but very different graphics:

Summoner Geeks
8BitDandD

More insane and funny stuff (gamer-related and otherwise, mostly otherwise) in the Midnight Classics collection at iFilm.

Merry Merry Merry

My Dad — newly returned from his jaunt to Africa — will be doing up a curry, I am guessing, tonight. My Mum will be around the house, probably playing with my nephew Nathaniel as Marie and Troy (Nathniel’s parents, my sister and brother-in-law) will sit on the couch and chat about what’s new these [...]

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