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A Tourney at Ashford

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Published: October 10, 2024 15:54

After Belfast, the next stop on our summer travels was Ashford Meadows, where I’d heard there was a tournament going on.  No way I was going to miss that, so off we went.  Rumor was that some Targaryen princelings would be attending. Yes, I am talking…

Westeros in Belfast

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Published: October 5, 2024 17:56

The last time I visited Northern Ireland was in 2019.   Worldcon was in Dublin that year, and a week later there was Titancon up in Belfast, a small regional that a number of the members of the Brotherhood Without Banners helped put on.  There was no way…

GOING UP, COMING DOWN

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Published: October 1, 2024 03:52

Kris Krisofferson has died. I knew I would have to write those words eventually, and probably sooner rather than later.   Kris has not looked good the past few times I’ve seen him on the tube.   His health has not been good for some years.   Still, one can…

Here Comes Hodor

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Published: September 29, 2024 22:56

I promised you all a report on our trip. I haven’t forgotten.   We left Santa Fe on July 15, and returned home on August 15.   In between, we visited Belfast in Northern Ireland (and Ashford Meadow in the Reach), Amsterdam, London, Oxford, and Glasgow,…

HOUSE RULES

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Published: September 28, 2024 19:42

All you aces and jokers out there, go ahead and mark  FEBRUARY 25, 2025 on your calendars.  There’s a party going down on Keun Island, off the Atlantic Coast of  Cornwall, and you’re invited! That’s the day Penguin Random House will be releasing the…

Mary-Margaret In the Mojave

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Published: September 25, 2024 02:01

Mary-Margaret Road Grader is heading for the Mojave, along with Billy-Bob Chevrolet, Freddy-in-the-Hollow, Elmo John Deere, and Simon Red Bulldozer.   You will find them all this weekend at the Wasteland Film Festival, “the world’s first post-apocalyptic…

Some Stuff and Nonsense

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Published: September 10, 2024 01:44

Stuff I thought I’d mention: Week one of the new NFL season was played yesterday.   The Giants had the Vikings at home, and looked just as bad as last year.   They made some good draft picks, I thought, adding a top receiver and bolstering the O-line, but…

A Belated Blog

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Published: September 9, 2024 20:10

I am way behind in my Not-a-Blogging, I know. Along with a thousand other things. I was traveling in Europe from July 15 to August 15.    I do not travel with a computer (never have), so I had hoped to catch up before I left… but it was hard, hard.   The…

September Morn

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Published: September 3, 2024 17:54

My calendar is telling me it is now September.   Really?  Damn, the days are going by fast. We got back from our month abroad on August 15,  which seems like yesterday on the odd numbered days and last year on the evens..    I returned to find more than a…

BURN HIM! BURN HIM!

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Published: August 30, 2024 13:50

It is Fiesta here in Santa Fe, one of the oldest festivals in the City Different, and once again the highlight of the festivities will be the Burning of Zozobra (the original Burning Man, for those of you who have never heard of him). Zozobra will be 100…