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Holy Crap, Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” is Bleak

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The Road tells a simple story. A boy and his father walk some along a road in a dead America, years after a nuclear holocaust. An eternal nuclear winter has set in. Nearly everything that’s not human–every plant, bird, fish, mammal–has died. The […]

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Gary Gygax Reaches Zero Hit Points

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I just read on Reddit (where I lifted the joke in the title–there are many others) that Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away at the age of 69.
I played D&D and sundry other role-playing games (hmm…BattleTech, Car Wars and a bunch of others) in my early teens. I credit it with […]

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Richard Bausch Reads ‘Letter to the Lady of the House’

Monday, February 18th, 2008

For the past few weeks in Morocco, I’ve been jogging on the beach, first thing in the morning. As with most forms of exercise, I loathe jogging. However, we’re eating out a lot here in Morocco, and I must stave off the fat somehow.
I run barefoot. Not because of my last name, or because I’ve […]

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