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The Starship and the Upstairs Flat
There is a moment in Sherlock‘s second-season episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” in which the world’s first and only consulting detective is attempting to get to grips with the fact that his senses, the tools of his trade, utterly reliable for all his past life, have apparently turned on him and are no longer to [...]
Dinner for One
A peculiar thing happens in a number of European countries, mostly (but not all) German-speaking, on or around New Year’s Eve. The TV stations begin showing the same brief comedy sketch again and again. What’s truly unusual about this is that the sketch is in English — recorded nearly 50 years ago in front of [...]
Coming December 3-4: “The Six Tasks of Snowman Hank”
It started with this tweet from @DonSpeirs: “@wilw @dduane fan project for #Kimvention2012 – What do you think the 6 Tasks of Snowman Hank were? #kimpossible #snowmanhank” …All I can say is… it got me thinking. Too many people know that I love the Kim Possible series dearly, for a number of reasons including the [...]
He Whom I’m Getting Tired Of Seeing Named
…Not Voldemort, of course. I harbor a certain sneaking affection for a villain who manages to get so much done without a nose, and who has exploited for his benefit a folkloric trope* that the Lone Power (and many another otherworldly archvillain) has used before him: of being one who shouldn’t be named, because [...]
“Oh, to be young… and feel love’s keen sting.”
A trailer that pitches the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film as a screwball teen comedy. Not much else to be done but watch it repeatedly and roll around laughing…
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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