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August 17, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 357

Short story: Brushdog by Stephen Graham Jones, from Nightmare magazine, July 2017. Recommended.


Poem: The Swan by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.


Essay: How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas by Manoush Zomorodi, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on August 17, 2017 12:32

August 16, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 356

Short story: Everything Strange and Unknown by Joe Meno, listened to on the Selected Shorts podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Old Man, Dead in a Room by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Ex-Con, listened to on the Sincerely, X, podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on August 16, 2017 03:29

August 15, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 355

Short story: Balthazar’s Marvellous Afternoon by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories. Recommended.


Poem: The Tragedy of the Leaves by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Good Humour Man – The Hippocratics, from the History of Philosophy podcast, from December 2010. Recommended.


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Published on August 15, 2017 11:41

August 14, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 354

Short story: A Pursuit Race by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories.


Poem: The Priest and the Matador by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.


Essay: How AI Can Enhance Our Memory, Work and Social Lives by Tom Gruber, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on August 14, 2017 01:02

August 13, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 353

Short story: Love, Far from Home by Italo Calvino, from Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories. Recommended.


Poem: The State of World Affairs from a Third Floor Window by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Raising the Bar by Adam Gopnik, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.


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Published on August 13, 2017 08:58

August 12, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 352

Short story: Petty Gremlins by Kurt Pankau, listened to on the 600 Second Saga podcast, from August 2017. Receommended.


Poem: The Best Way to Get Famous by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Being Bereaved by Annie Broadbent, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast, from July 2017.


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Published on August 12, 2017 05:21

August 11, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 351

Short story: Everyone Changes by Paul Alex Gray, listened to on the Centropic Oracle podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.


Poem: Death Gets into the Suburbs by Michelle Boisseau, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Gold Coins of Abd al-Malik, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects podcast, from June 2010. Recommended.


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Published on August 11, 2017 08:32

Knight of the Wasteland (Wasteland #2) by Jon Cronshaw – Review

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knight of the wasteland.jpg 5 Stars



The series is well written and the characters will capture your heart.  This book will capture your interest and you won’t want to put it down.  I look forward to more of Cronshaw’s stories.


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Published on August 11, 2017 06:17

August 10, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 350

Short story: The Other Foot by Ray Bradbury, from the Illustrated Man and Other Stories. Recommended.<


Poem: From in Our Own Back Yard by Norma Cole, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Arabian Bronze Hand, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects podcast, from June 2010. Recommended.


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Published on August 10, 2017 02:05

August 9, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 349

Short story: Hop-frog by Edgar Allen Poe, listened to through Librivox.


Poem: The Loser by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.


Essay: Pepper Spray, listened to on the Sincerely, X, podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on August 09, 2017 12:32