Boing Boing just ran an excellent series on cultural roots of music and how blind most are to them. It runs fifteen parts, each illustrated by a video and covers country, soul, blues, bluegrass, classical and each is worth watching. I love following the roots of music, as a society we ignore so much excellent [...]
David Malki of the brilliant Wondermark comic today has an absolutely essential list of supernatural collective nouns. Now when I run a D&D game I will be able to tell the players they are being attacked by an audacity of gargoyles. Remember, knowing is half the battle.
This is awesome. Two problems, we need an adult sized one and the inside should be red and smell bad.
According to The Flibbertigibbet I am cave dweller with no friends on Facebook. I am losing the game.
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Save The Words is asking everyone to adopt a word that has fallen into disuse and save it from falling out of the English language. I have adopted Snollygoster, a definition can be found here, which is a word that describes almost everyone in our congress. Anyhow, there are many words without homes, if you [...]
Why am I always the last to know these things? Congratulations Flibbertigibbet!
Carol sent me a link to the The Miskatonic Valley Junior Baseball Association the other day and I thought I should share it with you all. Due to unfortunate circumstances the league is down to two teams this year, the The Innsmouth Guppies VS the Dunwich Whippoorwills. I am a bit broke right now or [...]
Despite our ongoing evidence that squirrels are plotting to destroy us utterly this master armorer has decided to start selling them plate armor. This cannot end well at all.
Traveling this week and didn’t preload posts so it may be a light week.
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Great American colonial history focused on Boston? Check out Boston 1775, a tight focus delivers a fantastic amount of well documented history.
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From the world of global insanity, perfumes inspired by the works of HP Lovecraft. Aiiiiiiieeeeee Aiiiiiiiiiieeeeeee Cthulhu fhtagn! Cthulhu fhtagn!