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I treasure my wee Darwin car sticker (like the Jesus fish but with feet), but I would consider swapping it for the Cthulu car sticker from Dagon Industries. Other fun stuff: Euro oval stickers for R’LH (Ryleh) and INN (Innsmouth), a tiki style sticker for the Dagon Surf Shop, a ball cap for CSI: ARKHAM, [...]
In a flyer over the weekend, I spotted what must be one of the most useless kitchen gadgets ever: an electric martini mixer. Seriously. It looks like someone watched one of the big paint can mixers in a hardware store and thought “hmmm… there must be a way I can sell this to consumers.” You [...]
“He spoke in a deep sort of voice then, the sort of voice you’d get if you dipped Darth Vader in a giant vat of maple syrup.”
from Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves
So I don’t really want to turn the blog into a series of video links, but this is really funny.Link here.Go writers!
Let chimes ring, bells toll, and people go home from work early (you have my permission, I’m declaring a holiday). The first draft of The Doom of Kings is finally finished. Okay, maybe not finished-finished as I still need to run it through a spell check and do some formatting, but it’s close enough that [...]
BBC News has posted an In Pictures feature on a new exhibition at Britain’s National Army Museum. The exhibition is called Faces of Battle and essentially covers the origins of plastic surgery in the treatment of severely wounded soldiers during and after WWI. In the context of the exhibit, the Beeb has a really thought-provoking [...]