Monthly Archives: November 2011

Snake On a Plain!

24th
Nov. × ’11

More juvenilia: A Serpent in Paradise (short story, age 14).

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Random Rambles

24th
Nov. × ’11

Speaking of Burroughs, while I was in San Diego for Libertopia last month I made a point of driving past the house on Coronado where Burroughs lived in 1913, when he was writing The Return of Tarzan and some of the early Barsoom and Pellucidar books. It looks exactly the same today as in this [...]

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R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey – Gone Between

24th
Nov. × ’11

I’m sorry to learn of Anne McCaffrey’s death. I discovered her Dragonrider books in 5th or 6th grade, literally on the same day that I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels, and both played a big role in shaping my psyche. (As I’ve mentioned before, one of the things I liked about Avatar was the way [...]

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Caffeinated Free-Market Anti-Capitalism

24th
Nov. × ’11

Book Talk/Signing: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, 30 November 2011, at the Gnu’s Room bookstore/café in Auburn, Alabama Co-Editor Charles Johnson and major contributor Roderick Long to the book Markets Not Capitalism (2011) will be at The Gnu’s Room for a discussion of the topics addressed in the book. The economic crisis needs fresh new responses, which [...]

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Night Shift

23rd
Nov. × ’11

Here are the five new mini-episodes that appear on the Doctor Who series 6 dvd. The last one takes place just before “Closing Time,” but it’s not obvious when the others take place.

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Naked in Narnia

18th
Nov. × ’11

Two new Doctor Who clips. First, the Doctor gets naked for charity. Second, the trailer for next month’s Christmas special channels The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  

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