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I'd thought this would be a sort of road trip, with Loewen driving cross country, making frequent stops to read those little historical markers you see all over the place--Loewen's point being that there's little or no standard for what passes as history in such markers.In fact, it turns out some such markers are fairly innocuous, while others have agendas we shd be wary of. &nbsp;As the son of a historian who was way ahead of the curve when it came to embracing what can be called the Dee Brown revolution, &nbsp;and the grandson on the other side of an old-school Southerner who wrote a book denouncing Reconstruction, this is all in the family, so to speak.Yesterday, though, a passing reference to to Poison Springs State Park really threw me. For one thing, &nbsp;I was a long-time Scout (an Eagle Scout. with palms. in the Order of the Arrow).For another, I've been to Poison Springs. It's less than forty miles from my home town. Our troup went over there once, to build wooden plank walkways, along with tall blue signposts, returning for hikes there later on.It's one thing to know that there was a Civil War battle site near where I lived when I was growing up.&nbsp;It's quite another to learn, as I did yesterday, that there were war crimes here: captive Union soldiers executed after the battle by the victorious Confederates.And learning that has been deeply unsettling. &nbsp;Over the years I've become more aware of the links between the Boy Scouts and Confederate history.&nbsp;But it's going to take more than carefully worded accounts on recently erected historical markers for me to process this. --John R--current reading on the Kindle: Loewen's LIES ACROSS AMERICA<div> </div> </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/12/poison-springs-confederate-battleground.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-5910901607230129353</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-12-06T20:20:18.527-08:00</atom:updated><title>Susanna Clarke's nod to Tolkien</title><description>So, &nbsp;the following, taken from one of Susanna Clarke's inimitable footnotes, ought to sounds familliar to readers of J. R. R. T.:"The truth is that the brugh [fairy-mound]&nbsp;was a hole of interconnecting holes that was &nbsp;dug into a barrow, very like a rabbit's warren&nbsp;or badger's set. To paraphrase a writer of fanciful&nbsp;stories for children, this was not a comfortablehole, it was not even a dry, bare sandy hole; it&nbsp;was a nasty, dirty, wet hole.--THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU .176 --John R.current reading: LIES ACROSS AMERICA by James W. Loewencurrent audiobook: John Garth's TOLKIEN'S GREAT WAR </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/12/susanna-clarkes-nod-to-tolkien.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-1885314896070392187</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-11-22T22:35:48.157-08:00</atom:updated><title>Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference</title><description>&nbsp;So, I'll be busy this weekend, attending the Celebration for Christopher Tolkien, who wd have been a hundred years old this week. &nbsp;It's an online conference (webinar) hosted by the Tolkien Society via Zoom.I'll be taking part, first as a member of a Q&amp;A / Roundtable talking about editing Tolkien (e.g., my work on THE HISTORY OF THE HOBBIT). &nbsp;Then I'll also be giving a talk whose official title is "Editing THE HOBBIT" but which might as well be "Christopher, Taum, and Me".The list of speakers is impressive; pity that time zones mean some events starting as early as 3.a.m my time. &nbsp;Fortunately they'll be recording presentations for folks who miss out to catch specific speakers later via recording.My events, for those interested, are at 11.30 to 12.30 &nbsp;ROUNDTABLE with Dimitra Fimi, Peter Grybaukas, Andrew Higgins, and JDR.EDITING THE HOBBIT, my other event, is at 1 pm and lasts for thirty minutes.I know I'll be attending as many events as I can fit in and can stay awake for.If you're interested, drop by and give it a look-see.--John R. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/11/christopher-tolkien-centenary-conference.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4995448902559247292</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-30T20:50:41.472-07:00</atom:updated><title>Ghost Posts</title><description>So, here's a piece in The Guardian that explains a lot:&nbsp;<span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: &quot;GH Guardian Headline&quot;, &quot;Guardian Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Ghost jobs: why do 40% of companies advertise positions that don’t exist?<div class="dcr-1fnjjtg" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; 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font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"A survey has revealed that the practice is widespread, with many companies going as far as fake-interviewing too"<p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This syncs up with a lot of anecdotal accounts but places it within a context and rationale:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/30/ghost-jobs-why-do-40-of-companies-advertise-positions-that-dont-exist">https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/30/ghost-jobs-why-do-40-of-companies-advertise-positions-that-dont-exist</a>&nbsp;Thoroughly reprehensible, but no solution presents itself, at least in the short term.--John R.<div class="dcr-1fnjjtg" data-gu-name="headline" style="border: 0px; 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Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-7350170250624454141</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-29T19:56:10.664-07:00</atom:updated><title>Breakdowns in the system</title><description>So, &nbsp;the past few days there have seen a few unrelated but similar events.First up the Internet was down for the day, apparently due to theft rather than sabotage (that is, thieves cut the cables for the copper).Second was the forty-five car smash-up on I-five between Seattle and Tacoma. No one killed, thank goodness, &nbsp;though there were a lot of cars that needed towed away (seventeen I fotget).Third, and most sinister of the three, someone tried to set fire to two ballot boxes, one in Portland and the other in Vancouver, Washington. No one hurt and only minimal damage, but distressing nonetheless.--John R.&nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/breakdowns-in-system.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-2970112117871682300</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-29T17:59:02.005-07:00</atom:updated><title>We See Dracula (on stage)</title><description>So, today we traveled down to Tacoma to see a live preformance of DRACULA. &nbsp;We'd seen it before, this being our third time, but it's &nbsp;been a long time.&nbsp;The first was in the Milwaukee Public Library: a staging of the original stage play famously filmed a few years later starring Lugosi. It was by far the best of the three. It cleverly had the heroes suspect Count Dracula but rule him out because they're in England: his 'native soil' wd be hundreds of miles away; it's a real breakthrough for them when they realize he brough the dirt with him. &nbsp;The mirror-smashing scene was also impressive.The second was an amateur perforance in Elkhorn in which one actor --I think the one playing Van Helsing-- dominated the whole show, to its detriment.&nbsp;And the third was this one in Tacoma, more than twenty years later. &nbsp;Renfield and Mina were really good, with Dr. Steward not far behind. Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Miss Lucy did pretty well as well. In fact the only one I thought was lacking was Dracula himself. The actor had clealy seen LOVE AT FIRST BITE, and his slightly campy performance didn't fit particularly well with the rest of the cast.So: well worth seeing, especially for the Renfield. Also, they combined Lucy's four suitors into one (Dr. Steward) and made her less the flirt in Stoker's novel and more the victim of fate.--John R.--current (re)reading: LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU by Suzanna Clarke <a href="https://www.tacomaartslive.org/events/dracula/?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD05WzRwcd0gXLbqXeZbfj53kaNW9&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwyfe4BhAWEiwAkIL8sD5J7fXK8MlxmhfzPBJQ0oEjgkJxdlbrq_6T55xCdrwvZF279rRl_xoC0asQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds">https://www.tacomaartslive.org/events/dracula/?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD05WzRwcd0gXLbqXeZbfj53kaNW9&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwyfe4BhAWEiwAkIL8sD5J7fXK8MlxmhfzPBJQ0oEjgkJxdlbrq_6T55xCdrwvZF279rRl_xoC0asQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds</a> P.S.: and, I shd add, we were fortute on the drive up to avoid the forty-five car pile-up&nbsp; <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=forty-five+cars+i-5+washington&amp;sca_esv=2e8d468bbac54b5e&amp;source=hp&amp;ei=oxsfZ6exOvaH0PEPir7X-Ag&amp;iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZx8ptFSYuR1a0-BDONb5aPBUJMpoHLU5&amp;oq=forty-five+cars+i-5&amp;gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhNmb3J0eS1maXZlIGNhcnMgaS01KgIIADIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSPZtUABYhFdwAHgAkAEAmAFQoAG0CqoBAjE5uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIToAKyC8ICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgILEC4YgAQY0QMYxwHCAg4QLhiABBixAxjRAxjHAcICCxAuGIAEGLEDGNQCwgIFEC4YgATCAggQLhiABBixA8ICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwHCAgUQABiABMICBhAAGBYYHsICAhAmwgILEAAYgAQYhgMYigXCAggQABiABBiiBMICCBAAGBYYHhgPmAMAkgcCMTmgB4WXAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz">forty-five cars i-5 washington</a></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/we-see-dracula-on-stage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-5742369628467952694</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-19T20:43:18.011-07:00</atom:updated><title>Our Ballots Have Arrived </title><description>So, &nbsp;our ballots have now arrived; just have to go through them, mark them up, and get them either into the dropbox or mail by the fifth. &nbsp;I already know who most of the people I'm voting for are (president /vice president, senator, Congressional seat, govenor, &amp;c) because I've been paying attention.But there are down-ballot candidates, such (as judgeships) and initiatives and the like --including our state Secretary of State, who's an avid D&amp;D player (i.e., one of Our People).* There's the candidates' self-descriptions of who they are and their qualifications for the job. A lot of crackpots emerge at this stage, who can be interesting in a horrifying sort of way. But there are shortcuts that eliminate a lot of the not-worth-considering from the rest and shake some apples from the tree. It's my rule of thumb not to vote for anyone who boasts about his or her lack of qualification to do the job --e.g. anyone who's never held office before. Or tax deadbeasts (governments cost money to run; those who pretend otherwise need not be taken seriously). Those who wd mandate term limits also get the hairy eyeball. And so forth.It's a lot to go thorough, but being able to vote is worth it. &nbsp;--John R.*I was invited to a meet-and-greet with Hobbs at a game store, but cdn't make it. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/our-ballots-have-arrived.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-8125887581968991947</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-16T21:15:42.273-07:00</atom:updated><title>Salmon Run in the Cedar River</title><description>So, today we took a walk along the Cedar River in downtown Renton &nbsp;to see if the salmon run was underway. It's quite a sight, on years we get it right (the fish being unpredictable).We've found a good spot last year, just down stream (north) of the Renton Library, which is right over the river. The viewing was even better this year. Whether the timing was right or this is just a better year for the fish I don't know. Maybe both.I don't know how many fish there were --dozens and dozens--mostly grey with some golden, almost as bright as koi. A few were purple, which I suspect were either grey fish turning purple or contrarywise purple ones turning grey.It helped that the day was beautiful, with sunbeams to shine right down to the river bottom (the Cedar being a fast, shallow little river).All in all, a good outing. We'll see if we have such luck again next time.--John R.currrent reading: Tolkien's poem on Tea.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/salmon-run-in-cedar-river.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4626206135612481718</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-15T17:45:13.284-07:00</atom:updated><title>TOLKIEN AND LEWIS PLAY</title><description>So, the Taproot Theatre, a local theatrical group we enjoy getting to occasionally, has announced they'll be staging a &nbsp;Tolkien / Lewis themed play, called simply LEWIS AND TOLKIEN.&nbsp;Written by Dean Batoli, whose work I don't know (apparently BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER scripts figured in largely), it imagines a chance meeting between CSL and JRRT at some point after the Inklings towards the end of Lewis's life. Sounds like it has potential. At any rate, I plan to go, so here's hoping it's good.DATE: January 22nd through February 22nd, 2025THE SEASON: just to give a better idea of what Taproot's like, the four other plays that make up this season are&nbsp;A RAISIN IN THE SUN (not my kind of thing),&nbsp;The Patsy Cline Story (likewise),&nbsp;MURDER ON THE LINKS (Poirot stories can be fun, but I'm doubtfull about their choice of a murder mystery play set on a golf course), and&nbsp;THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (which I've seen more than once, and read several more times; the problem here is deciding how many times I want to see the same play).&nbsp;I guess we'll find out--John R <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1zvgnGKaG1RUj1t6TepnMLViRtA6_IBnXtdwZo8kAZQbitlNPDoxipa83nj2lsxWPHLfY4I97RjmmDRujfBXZaP6P8jKH-PqzEune5PXPYe7dzypo3N82klLJ0ku3OMewKd8zDRgeYdXVm9xjc2ffNs_LSoQ8tXD5DG83aJr_b5UkieUpb5_mUuDzp6Sf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1693" data-original-width="1234" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1zvgnGKaG1RUj1t6TepnMLViRtA6_IBnXtdwZo8kAZQbitlNPDoxipa83nj2lsxWPHLfY4I97RjmmDRujfBXZaP6P8jKH-PqzEune5PXPYe7dzypo3N82klLJ0ku3OMewKd8zDRgeYdXVm9xjc2ffNs_LSoQ8tXD5DG83aJr_b5UkieUpb5_mUuDzp6Sf" width="175" /></a></div> </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/tolkien-and-lewis-play.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1zvgnGKaG1RUj1t6TepnMLViRtA6_IBnXtdwZo8kAZQbitlNPDoxipa83nj2lsxWPHLfY4I97RjmmDRujfBXZaP6P8jKH-PqzEune5PXPYe7dzypo3N82klLJ0ku3OMewKd8zDRgeYdXVm9xjc2ffNs_LSoQ8tXD5DG83aJr_b5UkieUpb5_mUuDzp6Sf=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-714963220626175412</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-14T16:50:03.334-07:00</atom:updated><title>The Antiquarian Book Fair</title><description>&nbsp;So, it's that time of year again when rare book sellers gather down at the Seattle Center (the old World's Fair fairgrounds) to offer up an amazing array of collectables --anything from a Kelmscott Chaucer or copies of WEIRD TALES through local-interest booths and first editions of THE LORD OF THE RINGS.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.seattlebookfair.com/">http://www.seattlebookfair.com/</a> These past few years I've been working at downsizing my collection, not adding to it, which calls for a whole different mindset. But it's still quite an experience just to browse. And I still occasionally at the end of the day carry away a book, particularly if it's something I'd been looking for a long time.We'll see how it goes this time.--John R.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-antiquarian-book-fair.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-326137618205357793</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-11T20:47:11.538-07:00</atom:updated><title>My Tea Plant Flowers</title><description>So, yesterday I noticed that my tea plant (a kind of camelia) has put out its yearly flower. I'd just planted some pansies, which along with some violets (which if they flowered this year I missed it) make up my modest little flowers-in-pots minigarden for this year.Possiblee adjustments include replacing the capnip, which died out at some point over the last few months. I'm also pleased to note the flourishing of the Italian shell beans' leafy greens so beloved of Hastur. Neither of our current cats show much interest, but Tyburn has taken some of some grass growing out of the side of one of the pots, so we'll let that stand for cat greens for now.<div>--John R</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3vMZo-0QInSK296KB6OQAhezQZsw8NaoxZ6CKKkntwf2hiHTe774VJSazK-Oa72sLDWQ7GwlMjP27xRcyWGQS_-gdmjnkF5KZy-FACu8Tpnkzq-2flnuBftDvKW-1UDvAC7i_f6X-RU2xpSK_Cx0WCaW7SW1nb-MAOHNvlWz1CPIEQtbc3JQHPHXYs_JB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3vMZo-0QInSK296KB6OQAhezQZsw8NaoxZ6CKKkntwf2hiHTe774VJSazK-Oa72sLDWQ7GwlMjP27xRcyWGQS_-gdmjnkF5KZy-FACu8Tpnkzq-2flnuBftDvKW-1UDvAC7i_f6X-RU2xpSK_Cx0WCaW7SW1nb-MAOHNvlWz1CPIEQtbc3JQHPHXYs_JB" width="320" /></a></div> &nbsp;--JDRP. S.: Thanks to JC for the photol</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-tea-plant-flowers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3vMZo-0QInSK296KB6OQAhezQZsw8NaoxZ6CKKkntwf2hiHTe774VJSazK-Oa72sLDWQ7GwlMjP27xRcyWGQS_-gdmjnkF5KZy-FACu8Tpnkzq-2flnuBftDvKW-1UDvAC7i_f6X-RU2xpSK_Cx0WCaW7SW1nb-MAOHNvlWz1CPIEQtbc3JQHPHXYs_JB=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-1870311522692456038</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-10T21:04:32.888-07:00</atom:updated><title>I Am Podded</title><description>&nbsp;So, thanks to Ben Riggs, author of SLAYING THE DRAGON&nbsp;(a highly entertaining account of the fall of TSR)and Gareth Hanrahan, whose work I'm not familiar with&nbsp;(his work on The One Ring rpg sounds particularly interesting), I got to enjoy an hour's online discussion of LotR. Ben has since posted the discussion in both audio/video form, complete with close captions:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sOa8nrmVxQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sOa8nrmVxQ</a> I can see that I need to learn more about the One Ring rpg and see what the current license holders have done with the newest in a long line of Tolkien rpg. Sounds like the Shire starter set is a good place to start, if I can find it. &nbsp;More on this somewhere back the road.--John R.* *bonus points: Ben knows how to pronounce my name</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/i-am-podded.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-7201682060626468150</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-09T12:53:42.960-07:00</atom:updated><title>New Fish Long Ago</title><description>So, it's October 7th, which I always celebrate as the day I was hired at TSR as an editor in their rpg department. Over the next five years I got to work on a lot of adventures and sourcebooks and boxed sets, most of them for core AD&amp;D / D&amp;D but also at one time or another on just about every game world they were publishing at the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;I got to work on a lot of great game modules (didn't keep count, but at a guess, about three dozen releases) and with a lot of amazing people. That same week I was one of four new hires (whom Jim Ward, our boss who's hired us all, called 'new fish') that same month on sequential Mondays.&nbsp;I arrived first on October 7th, followed by Rich Baker (designer) and Thomas Reid (editor), both on the 14th, with Wolfgang Baur (as part of the DRAGON / DUNGEON magazine team) on the 21st.It was a great place to work, from the point of view of GETTING TO BE THE ONES WHO WORKED &nbsp;ON D&amp;D (how cool is that?) and a terrible place to work from the point of working conditions and the cluelessness of management carried to a high degree.&nbsp;Later there was coming and going, and coming, and going, for a total of ten years at three iterations of TSR / WotC / Hasbro and a lot more releases I worked on --events some of which I commemorate in turn. But that's the subject for another time.--John R.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/new-fish-long-ago.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4041009861133428612</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-10-01T12:37:05.785-07:00</atom:updated><title>Jimmy Carter Day</title><description>So, Jimmy Carter has just turned a hundred years old -- something no other President has achieved.&nbsp;No one has ever done a better job of being Ex-President. An interesting legacy, and one that I doubt will be matched.I met him at a book signing once (he was famous for his epic book-signing sessions), and I wonder if he might hold some king of record there as well.&nbsp;He's also the first person I voted for in a presidential election.<div>He didn't cure river blindness but he helped a lot of people over the years --from the roll-up-yr-sleeves and pitch in of Habitats for Humanity to election monitoring and off-the radar unofficial diplomacy.&nbsp;</div><div> </div><div>I hear they're planting a hundred trees in his honor. I wonder what kind, and where?</div><div> </div><div>Well done, Mr. Carter.</div><div> </div><div>--John R.</div><div> </div><div>&nbsp;</div>&nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/10/jimmy-carter-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-8286370969507737955</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-09-29T12:52:36.609-07:00</atom:updated><title>D&D Gets Some Respect</title><description>So, thanks to Andrew H for this &nbsp;link to a piece by a writer with the great name of Jedediah Berry. And the article is pretty good too: from the inside, linking together the roles of DM and author in a respectful way. And it's not another one of those journalist-descends-to-write-about-strange-people-and-their-strange (possibly dangerous) hobby.&nbsp;<a href="https://lithub.com/what-fiction-writers-can-learn-from-dungeons-dragons/">https://lithub.com/what-fiction-writers-can-learn-from-dungeons-dragons/</a>&nbsp; --And this &nbsp;is a week when 'Settlers of Catan' was the correct answer to one of the challenges on NPR's 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me' &nbsp;(an answer they didn't quite get right). Have I mentioned the fundraising event coming up for the state of Washington's Attorney General where he's focusing the &nbsp;event on his being a dedicated fan of the game? More on this one later.--John R. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/09/d-gets-some-respect.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-8740823818175136535</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-09-26T18:00:08.972-07:00</atom:updated><title>Marquette Tolkien in Sixty Seconds</title><description>So, thanks to Janice and to Jim Lowder for the link to this nice little piece: a brief account and overview of Marquette's Tolkien Collection.&nbsp;<a href="https://today.marquette.edu/2024/09/60-second-marquette-on-bill-fliss-the-tolkien-collection/">https://today.marquette.edu/2024/09/60-second-marquette-on-bill-fliss-the-tolkien-collection/</a>As someone who's spent a lot of time with this collection, let me say if you ever get the chance to see this in person, it's well worth the visit.P.S.: can you spot the point where they briefly show my book?--John R.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/09/marquette-tolkien-in-sixty-seconds.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4331820245760425051</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-09-10T13:42:35.344-07:00</atom:updated><title>I.C.E. / E.Q. books</title><description>So, back in the day when there was no online gaming and DMs were hard to find, some of us filled the gap with pick-a-path books.*&nbsp;Of the many variants thereof, the ones by Iron Crown (a.k.a. i.C.E.) show how relaxed a lot of game companies' understanding of copyright --esp. other people's copyright-- cd be. &nbsp;And the trouble this cd cause when the Other People (e.g. lawyers) were paying attention.<o:p></o:p> &nbsp;So far as I can tell, I.C.E. released ten books in four series:&nbsp;Tolkien Quest&nbsp;(two books),&nbsp;Middle-earth&nbsp;Quest (four books),&nbsp;Narnia Solo Games&nbsp;(one book), and&nbsp;Sherlock Holmes Solo Mysteries&nbsp;(three books). It started as Tolkien Quest, then quickly changed to Middle-earth Quest --indeed one of the books advertised as part of the T.Q. series had been re-labeled to be MeQ books instead by the time it came out.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p> Here's a listing which may not be complete, given that more books were announced than ever appeared on shelves.&nbsp;<div> </div><div>I. Tolkien Quest<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—The Legend of Weathertop.&nbsp;&nbsp;by Heike Kubasch (1985)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—Night of the Nazgul.&nbsp;&nbsp;by John David Ruemmler (1985)<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>II. Middle Earth Quest<o:p></o:p>—Rescue in Mirkwood.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by Gerald Lientz (1988).** &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>—Treason at Helm's Deep.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by Kevin Barrett &amp; Saul Peters (1988)<o:p></o:p>—Mines of Moria.&nbsp;&nbsp;by Susan Mathews &amp; J. D. Ruemmler (1988)<o:p></o:p>—A Spy in Isengard.&nbsp;&nbsp;by Terry K. Amthor (1988)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[Search for the Palantir]. announced but never released]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[Race from RIvendell ].&nbsp;&nbsp;never released<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p> </o:p>Next Up: Narnia Quest --John R *P.S.:&nbsp;In my case it was Dungeon Geomorphs and Cal-tech encounter tables, quickly followed by the&nbsp;Player's Handbook, which I actually read all the way through, from start to finish. **best cover&nbsp;</div></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/09/ice-eq-books.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-6517161039789293277</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-09-08T21:59:55.449-07:00</atom:updated><title>Tolkien Quest</title><description> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh38i5xYBg8YpsMmlGLtbqge776gZq87nmQuaPnqf1KjoM_ReOian1QrBs6BBfRMegdPA4fFzkrKV3ujaAdAzI_QMcnETewe_Edu6uGub2M7jms2Jqx-0z32OFndKs2K2SNUvG7AA_s0l8rG1G1Ns4se9Pb8ANcpi4sOnrwXq1VmqWkmD2gioQpnHY15AqV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="876" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh38i5xYBg8YpsMmlGLtbqge776gZq87nmQuaPnqf1KjoM_ReOian1QrBs6BBfRMegdPA4fFzkrKV3ujaAdAzI_QMcnETewe_Edu6uGub2M7jms2Jqx-0z32OFndKs2K2SNUvG7AA_s0l8rG1G1Ns4se9Pb8ANcpi4sOnrwXq1VmqWkmD2gioQpnHY15AqV" width="154" /></a></div> So, here are two very similar books published not that far apart.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of those cases where small differences opened up a potential nightmare for that publisher, who &nbsp;reallly shd have seen it coming.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl4uduUKtOCcOGU6NJTFKsYuUrGjY3dJFddktKCAF00plTk-uz3Z2E1ogfuJY2xlTTm4rTRaa6RMPoVgX0Fxb9_HOb8JlAg1gsX2sYbxMLofiRFN3Ozekz9zYruFSPzN55u2PTLD7Q68qT_24Gd_yhHlWymBmgFvHLDAOR4gWhrMVWYZFZuB0EgxijjmP-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="876" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhl4uduUKtOCcOGU6NJTFKsYuUrGjY3dJFddktKCAF00plTk-uz3Z2E1ogfuJY2xlTTm4rTRaa6RMPoVgX0Fxb9_HOb8JlAg1gsX2sYbxMLofiRFN3Ozekz9zYruFSPzN55u2PTLD7Q68qT_24Gd_yhHlWymBmgFvHLDAOR4gWhrMVWYZFZuB0EgxijjmP-" width="154" /></a></div> And by the by this sequence of events had the wholly unintended result of allowing me to miss GenCon, that year. Among other things.&nbsp; More later--John R. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/09/tolkien-quest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh38i5xYBg8YpsMmlGLtbqge776gZq87nmQuaPnqf1KjoM_ReOian1QrBs6BBfRMegdPA4fFzkrKV3ujaAdAzI_QMcnETewe_Edu6uGub2M7jms2Jqx-0z32OFndKs2K2SNUvG7AA_s0l8rG1G1Ns4se9Pb8ANcpi4sOnrwXq1VmqWkmD2gioQpnHY15AqV=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4913266947074739947</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-09-06T23:46:51.037-07:00</atom:updated><title>Names and Numbers</title><description>&nbsp;So, Janice asked me a question I cdn't answer. In TotR Orcs occasionally refer to other orcs as having identification numbers. She asks: Who keeps track of the enormous bureaucracy this wd generate? <div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm rereading The Lord Of The Rings for the first time in years and I have questions! <span class="html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;"><a attributionsrc="/privacy_sandbox/comet/register/source/?xt=AZW7PZxMqUJ11DAEyuI2eyRIQJ3Ywl2VLPMmmnMfZJAX-zvhClIMXhKTc3Z2krR-BXyNPMJDSEbdB-npZpxb9fbpt3Ajs2_AjhCV8E9Uu1rKhIWkCEy4sVwLopwGqIRB_q_maZqc7TyIXzgmgclXKS354_kzHPsizWpWvrD_5CjgAUKksleXZyHWSjVjXe9OG25Z_Laun7Id3EEiz6vJVTwpr-y4464Hfgo4ordHAIfO2rpuyg7Bfo-FYERAGU37s5YRrv5bANKw0HQ-ToaYZSw6HpSkmflFkuM0nqx7uRp8vUsx60g2XsMMIEhigyt_3GDCzQtjkvxoabgU2LHUnJ_NMcA9lfbCbNu6h72cNeApsOEtECkjafoVG0OB2ViXArRS-9EC5DFbyDZNEf5BJeP188Fg3T8-9dDPboOINym8quy4i1fHKppypzr2BSRasggqRzR_VirxOi_KOg7cXb5kBkjIadqvYt44wSVG0C1yiQ" class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz x1sur9pj xkrqix3 x1fey0fg xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/john.rateliff.1?__cft__[0]=AZWBVM_9LVrQXQO3vCZzS2RjR4kxgIwiR-piukCYrY1D5U_WBT4-ss1dBA-wLf8mNJK4LTecxAhko6LGef_RzolW6e8qazamnr37DmsAp5jgE0nnADIDD_AK_Y91EgCaHVAbGC_vyFk8mwhwKFAd1wFb&amp;__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">John</a> is absolutely no help.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In Book 6 Chapter 2 during a dust-up a soldier orc threatens to report a tracker orc. The tracker demands to know to whom he'll be reported and the soldier responds, "I'll give your name and number to the Nazgûl." What is this number? Who assigns it? What is it used for? Is there a Mordor Department of Orc Relations? Is there a separate Mordor Department of Human <span class="html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;"><a class="html-a xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a>Relations for the easterlings? Do they share office space? I have so many questions.</div></div>There's a hint sharing something of the same attitude in Tolkien's anger in his comments to the Zimmerman script at the rooms in the inn at Bree having been assigned room numbers.&nbsp; --John R. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/09/names-and-numbers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-5381015553552461791</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-08-24T13:30:05.473-07:00</atom:updated><title>More on the Anderson Design Group's calendar</title><description>So, &nbsp;a little more judicious poking showed a listing of retro-style posters. Here's the listing:<a href="https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/literary-classics?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACw_eEcg_BJukFk-tbLc4CXCZcrLD&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5qC2BhB8EiwAvqa41uRbXvmTCznc0BEEeDT-BXiY7DJ6b_23tIu3YSnJVL0MXsGziIRgrxoC2r8QAvD_BwE">https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/literary-classics?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACw_eEcg_BJukFk-tbLc4CXCZcrLD&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5qC2BhB8EiwAvqa41uRbXvmTCznc0BEEeDT-BXiY7DJ6b_23tIu3YSnJVL0MXsGziIRgrxoC2r8QAvD_BwE</a>Of this fuller list, I've read thirty-six of forty.--John R. &nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/08/more-on-anderson-design-groups-calendar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-398780476695795230</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-08-24T13:20:23.428-07:00</atom:updated><title>update</title><description>So, thanks to Paul W. for pointing this out: there was indeed a link that got left out to my recent post re. the odd assortment of folks who identify with Tolkien.The Boston Globe website proved surprisingly difficult to navigate, but let's try that again. <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/02/opinion/essay-lord-of-the-rings/?utm_campaign=Opinion_Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawE3Hl1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfHXK2w5GiAl0KgiWqJycUjoF8LJrqGc62XkhBfzLrfZ7v_Ft3xKTDzYLg_aem_0AEGWW7-rizoryagH8fuTw">https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/02/opinion/essay-lord-of-the-rings/?utm_campaign=Opinion_Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawE3Hl1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfHXK2w5GiAl0KgiWqJycUjoF8LJrqGc62XkhBfzLrfZ7v_Ft3xKTDzYLg_aem_0AEGWW7-rizoryagH8fuTw</a> --John R. &nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/08/update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-5232559685116476506</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-08-23T20:57:06.087-07:00</atom:updated><title>This year's calendar: 'Literary Classics'</title><description>&nbsp;So, my office calendar this year (in a break with tradition, replacing the Mayan) is an oversized wall calendar called 'Literary Classics', with Art by 'Anderson Design Group', whom I've never heard of. But I like the art, which seems deliberately evocative of the WPA poster art of the 1920s and 30s.&nbsp;Just as interesting as the style are the choices of the Literary Classics chosen. &nbsp;January: 20,000 LeaguesFebruary: Peter RabbitMarch: The Call of CthulhuApril: The Count of Monte CristoMay: The Secret GardenJune: Treasure IslandJuly: HamletAugust: The Island of Dr. MoreauSeptember: Moby DickOctober: Sleepy HollowNovember: The Little MermaidDecember: The Time Machine An eclectic group. Some quite short (the Potter, Irving, Andersen, Wells), others quite lengthy (Dumas, Melville). &nbsp;I suspect I'm not the only one who, when confronted by such a grouping of display, such as frequently appear in the local Barnes &amp; Noble, &nbsp;pauses a minute to work out how many of them I've read. So I'll go ahead and confess I've never read The Secret Garden or Count of Monte Christo. And while I'm at it, I'll share that my favorite among the art pieces here are the dramatic view of the last moments of the Pequod and crew; the Verne; and The Time Machine.The most interesting thing about this selection is that it includes Lovecraft, who continues his ascent out of the pulp dungeon towards canonization --which wd I think have astonished Lovecraft and his pulp peers.No Tolkien, but then he's in copyright.For those who want to see more of these posters, see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/literary-classics?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACw_eEcg_BJukFk-tbLc4CXCZcrLD&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5qC2BhB8EiwAvqa41uRbXvmTCznc0BEEeDT-BXiY7DJ6b_23tIu3YSnJVL0MXsGziIRgrxoC2r8QAvD_BwE">https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/literary-classics?gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACw_eEcg_BJukFk-tbLc4CXCZcrLD&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5qC2BhB8EiwAvqa41uRbXvmTCznc0BEEeDT-BXiY7DJ6b_23tIu3YSnJVL0MXsGziIRgrxoC2r8QAvD_BwE</a>or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/search?q=%E5%B8%81%E5%AE%A2%20%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5%E2%98%80%EF%B8%8F%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8Fk8.money%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FSign%20Up%20Bonus%205$%E2%96%9F%E5%B8%81%E5%AE%A2%20%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B592lanv%E5%B8%81%E5%AE%A2%20%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B592lanv&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACw_eEcg_BJukFk-tbLc4CXCZcrLD&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5qC2BhB8EiwAvqa41g_a2vAh9bRhQXErrU42YGiKtUWMcr0DiqGVKwYABA6RG6ppLFBAmxoCvSgQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/search?</a>or just ADG.com--John R.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/08/this-years-calendar-literary-classics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-699380129527419665</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-08-23T19:57:55.019-07:00</atom:updated><title>Calendar</title><description>So, I like calendars.&nbsp;For years now I've gotten several every year:&nbsp;--each year's new Tolkien calendar&nbsp;(sometimes multiple different Tolkien calendars in the same year), which I hang up in my office--a Mayan calendar (beautiful artwork and archeology), which I hang just under the Tolkien one--the Moon calendar (combining in a postersized grid a calendar, the entire phases of the moon for one year, and a little image of the moon as it appears on that day); this hangs in the stairwell in the hallway next to the cat-stand-- a half-sized calendar, about the size of a trade paperback book, for carrying in my satchel. The topic for this one can vary widely. &nbsp;This wide range of topics applies also to the downstairs calendar hanging by the phone; these two are the ones we write on to keep track of the schedule. The current ones are whimsical Lear birds and drawings of fruits and berries, respectively--and a miniature calendar the size of a credit card (good in previous years for scheduling; nowadays the print size is too small for aging eyes).As for this year's calendar, 'Literary Classics', see next post.--John R.current reading: THE SHADOWS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Th. Ligotti </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/08/calendar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. Rateliff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-442490481619179805</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-08-08T16:55:15.885-07:00</atom:updated><title>My Favorite Twain Quote</title><description>So, here's a picture of me sharing a bench with one of my favorite writers, taken during our recent visit to Fairhaven.*<div> </div>"And then, to add insult to injury, they threw me over the Falls, and I got wet." &nbsp;<div>--Mark Twain, A Day at Niagara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmVHXUzSa5zHM2CIcszRdXgj7J0WYNGsDo9HsRi2d_gPuTKYl2LQgDWnpqxeq4Y-3I7KW34LHdPkk5uYin0D0T1PYd_fh7l5So3o9n6AS6NF0r984edphgMzSjFOk1M8Q4CnjpcdfvANIk0Cv9NO3TWomcgb1-Qou3AUMD02gAOzmKoRPQSWMo04yUQdDO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1275" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmVHXUzSa5zHM2CIcszRdXgj7J0WYNGsDo9HsRi2d_gPuTKYl2LQgDWnpqxeq4Y-3I7KW34LHdPkk5uYin0D0T1PYd_fh7l5So3o9n6AS6NF0r984edphgMzSjFOk1M8Q4CnjpcdfvANIk0Cv9NO3TWomcgb1-Qou3AUMD02gAOzmKoRPQSWMo04yUQdDO" width="320" /></a></div> *photo courtesy Janice C</div></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/08/my-favorite-twain-quote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John D. 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