I just finished re-reading Tailchaser’s song after more than thirty years. I can say without reservation that it is worth a read for anyone who loves fantasy and at least likes cats. But it is also surprisingly good at making me read poetry without complaint.
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I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him from the world as it does so many, a year to the day after it took his wife.
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A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of days in my accounting.
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Sometimes I look back on something I bought a few years ago and ask myself “why?” But today I hit a mental block that stumped both myself and my wife- we own a baby gate that neither of us could make sense of.
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Irene and I went to see Bill Cosby back in 2007. We enjoyed him, and I had a number of complimentary things to say about his performance. A link to this popped up at the bottom of one of my posts as a ‘related item’.
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Trump got a delivery of fast food last week and it has been talked about in the news. The short story: it was a PR stunt to promote Trump’s reduction for taxes on tips.
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In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven’t written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley– one day that too will manifest. But I got a custom license plate for it, and felt talking about that plate was a bit more suited to this, my main blog.
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I read an article today in Wired about the creation of the “Inside the Manosphere” documentary on Netflix. I may have to watch the actual documentary now as the article intrigued me.
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This blog runs on a small box (an Intel NUC) sitting in my basement using Fedora Core Linux. I have regularly forgotten this box in terms of maintenance for as much as a year or two. The good news is that the little machine keeps on working without a complaint.
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