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October 25, 2016
For World Pasta Day: “A Dinner in Belgravia”
“Tegan…!” the Doctor said, sounding infinitely weary, and very annoyed. Tegan swallowed and turned toward him, prepared to take her medicine. The two of them stood in the TARDIS’s spacious…
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“This day is call’d the Feast of Crispian…”
October 25th rolls around and inevitably brings this with it. Of all the filmed versions, this is my favorite: half because of Branagh, half because of the wonderful film score…
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October 22, 2016
It’s not even Halloween yet but I have to do this
My memory was jogged the other day when I was in the local grocery to pick up a couple of things and went down the baking-products aisle. In passing I…
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October 21, 2016
The 5 Warning Signs of Autumn (Rural Ireland Edition)
This is about when it begins to happen. The first part of October can be surprisingly dulcet in lreland, seeming more like an extension of September than anything else. The…
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October 13, 2016
ON ORDEAL 2: Mamvish fsh Wimsih
A wizard’s Ordeal is intensely personal, and sometimes intensely dangerous… or not. Each Ordeal is tailored to the wizard who may pass it — or fail to pass. Each one…
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October 12, 2016
The Underberg Ad: “Through the Night to the Light”
Its name in German is “Durch Nacht zum Licht”, and though I’ve loved it for years I had no idea it was so famous. Some years ago, back when the…
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October 10, 2016
The political post
This was going to get written in the next week or so anyway, but something — a couple of somethings, actually — dropped into my “ask box” on Tumblr. and…
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September 29, 2016
RIHANNSU: SWORDHUNT and RIHANNSU: THE EMPTY CHAIR; the outline
Every now and then over at the Tumblr I wind up chatting with people about various aspects of writing, the writing business, and technique — usually under the “writing advice”…
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September 25, 2016
I need a cake safe
So on the way back from the interview (oh yeah, here’s the podcast link) at Dublin City FM the other day (hi Clare, hi Kitchen Table folks!) I stopped in…
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September 13, 2016
Peter’s Dhal
A bunch of you were asking for his recipe for this: so here it is. Believe it or not, I didn’t know he could do this kind of thing when…
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