Thursday, 29 September 2016

Eulogy for a White Ape: On Bathos, Shaggy Dogs, and Archaeology

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My character died last week. It was an exemplification of bathos. It has made me revisit that topic - one which I wrote about, I think usefu...
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Monday, 26 September 2016

Of Night and Day and Heart Beat Time

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I have been thinking some more about day to day life in  the Fixed World , mainly because I am a player in  Patrick's game, which is set...
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Sunday, 25 September 2016

D&D in the Media Watch and the End of Social Media

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D&D gets a mention in  this article in The Grauniad today . "[R]ole-play titles such as Dungeons & Dragons, in which players im...
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Friday, 23 September 2016

I'm not a Businessman, I'm a Business, Man

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I am ambivalent about the lionization of the entrepreneur which has been a growing feature of British society since as long as I can remembe...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Shadowrun, Future Maztica and Wood Pigeons

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Zak S wrote a post about Shadowrun . In the G+ comments I wrote: I have written about this before on my blog I think. (I have written so ...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

The Mask Worn by the Night Sky

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A crack only wide enough to squeeze through; on the other side is a space just big enough for one person to stand and turn around. Inside is...
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Sunday, 18 September 2016

The Ligottian Shift; or Three Scenes from Horror Games Not Played

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I have been reading Thomas Ligotti's  Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe , recently released as a Penguin Classic after being near...
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Thursday, 15 September 2016

Dungeonizing the Wilderness

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From Seeing Like a State , an extremely important book which everybody should read: [Edmund Leach] suggested that we look at the precolon...
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Ignorance and Knowledge of Medieval Peasants

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A question that fascinates me is that of how much your average medieval peasant farmer actually understood of the world. Actually, it is pro...
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Monday, 12 September 2016

Great Illustrations and The Saga of Erik the Viking

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Rooting around in old junk from my childhood days, I came across The Saga of Erik the Viking  - a children's fantasy adventure book writ...
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