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A highlight was a long walk along the seafront. &nbsp;I assumed that Dune Park featured sand dunes and it does, but its focus turned out to be Frank Herbert's DUNE. I had not known that Tacoma was Herbert's home town.<a href="https://www.parkstacoma.gov/tacomas-real-life-dune/">https://www.parkstacoma.gov/tacomas-real-life-dune/</a>Recommended.--John R.current reading: a whole bunch of books, in various stages of unfinishedment.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2026/01/tacoma-dune.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-8306069453413463308</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-01-20T21:15:27.727-08:00</atom:updated><title>Jean Rabe</title><description>Sorry to hear today of the death of Jean Rabe. &nbsp;Jean was head of the R. P. G. A. when I first came on board at TSR (in October &nbsp;1987 I think it was). My first contacts there were actually through the book department (via friend Jim Lowder) and the RPGA (then the domain of Jean, ably assisted by Skip Williams). &nbsp;That first discussion with Jean of a job at TSR didn't pan out due to my (a) living in Milwausee at the time and (b) not having a car. Instead I helped out with various tournaments and the like (e.g. providing sets of pregenerated characters for sanctioned events). A few months later I was more successful, joining the R&amp;D department as a game editor, along with fellow 'new fish' Rich Baker (designer), Thomas Reid (editor), and a few weeks later Tim Beach (RPGA).Through the chaos that was what we might call mid-period TSR, Jean ruled over her own fiefdom, acting pretty much independently of R&amp;D (e.g. the Living City/Raven's Bluff project). If I rember rightly (eventually the comings and goings get conflated) she had moved over into R&amp;D and later still was one of those who decided not to follow TSR to the west coast.&nbsp; If I had to sum up Jean in a word, it would be Kindness. Rest in peace. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2026/01/jean-rabe.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-3165867072854171540</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-01-14T18:02:45.046-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&nbsp;&nbsp;So, how easy is it to spot the common thread in this list of names?<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Andria Heyday<o:p></o:p>Anne Brown<o:p></o:p>Karen Boomgarden<o:p></o:p>Dori Watri<o:p></o:p>Julia Martin<o:p></o:p>Jean Rabie<o:p></o:p>Barb Young<o:p></o:p>Sue Weinlein<o:p></o:p>Carrie Bebris<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2026/01/blog-post.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-8674516058458868632</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-01-02T21:10:48.418-08:00</atom:updated><title>2026 Calendar</title><description>So, another year, another Tolkien calender. A while back I went back and sorted them by year. It made quite a pile, and the shift of style from year to year is interesting. My favorite, after those by Tolkien himself (esp the early ones), &nbsp;is the 1994 one by Michael Kaluta, which had a Finnish look to me. &nbsp;Which is not to say there have not been some God-awful examples over the years (the Hildebrants come to mind).&nbsp;This year (2026) features another by Alan Lee, who has a distinctive style, providing a sort of continuity. Lee is not only good but had the advantage that Christopher liked him.My own vote for an artist (contempory if now somewhat long in the tooth) &nbsp;to illustrate JRRT is Thomas Canty, whose art reminds me strongly of art nouveau &nbsp;and art deco: &nbsp;Many of his pieces look like stained glass windows. Underrated.Other than that, I saw THE BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS on the shelves of a mainstream bookstore (Barnes &amp; Noble) today, which makes me think we're approaching the saturation point for works by Tolkien. &nbsp;I intend to enjoy it while I can.--current reading: five books, the least interesting of whch is A. A. Milne's ONCE UPON A TIME (1922), an attempt by the Pooh author to &nbsp;write a fairy tale for adults. Milne had many talents, but it turns out writing a book like this one is not one of them. This sarcastic nudge-nudge wink-wink of a book deserves all the strictures Tolkien made on Milne in OFS.--John R </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026-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-5851801807961666018</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-12-03T12:38:17.539-08:00</atom:updated><title>A Middle-earth Sea Shanty</title><description>So, a bit belatedly, thanks to the friend who pointed me towards this link: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmwAqVqgx0U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmwAqVqgx0U</a>It's fun to see a version of Earendil's story in sea-shanty style, as opposed to the filk-sinc-y style of most such performances. &nbsp;Fun, if you like this sort of thing. Which I do, on the whole--John R </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-middle-earth-sea-shanty.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-2652412437418589997</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-11-18T18:29:08.704-08:00</atom:updated><title>An Eight Word Review of Pullman's (672 page) New Book </title><description>&nbsp;"They paved Paradise and &nbsp;put up a parking lot"</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-eight-word-review-of-pullmans-672.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-3768247710767302178</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-30T16:19:19.394-07:00</atom:updated><title>An Annotated GODS OF PEGANA</title><description>So, yesterday I came across a new edition of Dunsany's first book, THE GODS OF PEGANA (original edition 1905, this edition 2012). &nbsp;What I cd put together about it from some quick online searching was a bit uncertain, but here's what I cd find on it so far.Put together by a Robert J. Schulenburg, whose work is otherwise unknown to me. It is said to be the first book in a series to be known as The Reader's Library of Inspirational Books; I have not yet tracked down any other volumes in the series.Whether this has any linkage with Dolly Parton's Inspiration Library I can't say yet. &nbsp;&nbsp;This edition for the Kindle includes promises it includes additional material:-An Introduction to the series <div>-The biographical essay, 'Lord Dunsany: Badass Patriarch of High Fantasy' </div><div>-An original article, 'Dunsany's Chess' detailing the rules for the chess variant created by the author </div><div>-High quality formatting and interactive Table Of Contents for Kindle users </div><div>Future editions of this volume will include (and will be added to [my] purchase free of charge): -The essay: "Writing A Bible- Scripture As Narrative And Fiction, And Why We Would Confuse It For Fantasy </div><div>-Table of Influenced &amp; Influences </div><div>-A Lexicon of gods and prophets in the Peganan cosmology </div><div>-The chapters in summary (a distillation of the themes and messages of each Book) </div><div>-A timeline of the Peganan cosmology </div><div>-A map of the cosmology of Pegana </div><div>-Hiqh quality original illustrations I have to say that this looks like a random assortment for things connected with Dunsany.I've ordered a copy and shd have more information about the book after the book arrives.--John R, current reading: THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH (just out) &nbsp;by Phillip Pullman. A re-reading and a disappointment. &nbsp;And a complete collection of short stories by Aleister Crowley of short stories featuring Simon Iff, his psychic detectiv (re-reading; not as good the second time around).</div></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/09/an-annotated-gods-of-pegana.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-8774913181103947448</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-16T22:00:55.167-07:00</atom:updated><title>Till We Have Faces</title><description>&nbsp;So, &nbsp;just a brief reminder that this is on its way, if still a few months dfistantHere's what's been released so farA world premiere retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.When Psyche is sacrificed to appease the gods, her sister Orual—the future warrior queen—ventures to give her a proper burial. But Psyche is not dead, and she believes she’s living a life Orual cannot see. What follows is a powerful, mythic journey through love, beauty, faith, doubt, and the bonds of sisterhood. --John R</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/09/till-we-have-faces.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-2350092567219400544</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-13T15:17:35.271-07:00</atom:updated><title>The Smith Family quilt</title><description>&nbsp;So, &nbsp;a hundred and fifty years ago, at a place known as The Hollow (later renamed Ararat), a group of women got together and created a quilt for Rev. Newton Smith (born 1853), who was my great-grandfather. Family legend has it that this was a joint project, and that each segment was made by one of the women who dated him, who gave it to him as a wedding present. &nbsp;If true (and there's some evidence it is), he must have been a remarkable man.&nbsp;&nbsp;I count sixteen squares, each with the same pattern using a different color scheme, which must have taken a lot of organization. Be that as it may, &nbsp;it's amazing to me that this artifact of the past has passed down intact, if a little worn. Now I have to put some thought into whom it shd go to after my time. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7GfLUuvCDBH44-t-nPS5Xftu_QF7DR2PeAnu1G-9ZkhgH4hGciMmbyoDahfht2hqd40A9dux4FILGHvQDZYm26UWECRgVfvrZ5YsbJCRJYRoQ4UqLw2SVX25L0J_9mH6KJcVNZVs564gHjxzxbavYhA3Qpgw0QFUFxKi9ksGT3K8GCm_L7-Qw2rr3-RGo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1062" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7GfLUuvCDBH44-t-nPS5Xftu_QF7DR2PeAnu1G-9ZkhgH4hGciMmbyoDahfht2hqd40A9dux4FILGHvQDZYm26UWECRgVfvrZ5YsbJCRJYRoQ4UqLw2SVX25L0J_9mH6KJcVNZVs564gHjxzxbavYhA3Qpgw0QFUFxKi9ksGT3K8GCm_L7-Qw2rr3-RGo" width="265" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYKpaQYPfZYI60w-isyIjCCT_I1Xy705gKAq_kqtmyGzbAMSRsJYchbkxOmjyEINWzOY_cQcDH31bwKr3liIkW0W9AYd06lZVHpilLdFXRFOoCEoEgKA6OTCdaHVqtV6nI1yDEQa19Fil1eO4TS3i3ny66x2RcEn47EWbCWC0JPie5DLwBCO6YOVW_wgyY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYKpaQYPfZYI60w-isyIjCCT_I1Xy705gKAq_kqtmyGzbAMSRsJYchbkxOmjyEINWzOY_cQcDH31bwKr3liIkW0W9AYd06lZVHpilLdFXRFOoCEoEgKA6OTCdaHVqtV6nI1yDEQa19Fil1eO4TS3i3ny66x2RcEn47EWbCWC0JPie5DLwBCO6YOVW_wgyY" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizMIqinC-Z2lTSOu3bklAGTwXijVIlT50nMpWrxScEziJ78Lraozd8LiQft7sAWBjHHtbheNUxwTzQrjirWu0XEZseKos9DgsWC_snUvPmuPN7Kz7Wmq3rKAFUSM6oqKFt9JGM0IPiYgicKWXpmU8kfBsFP2LQHu0PmWAVs3ZIZS3c1nx65-jAfy3KGCtQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizMIqinC-Z2lTSOu3bklAGTwXijVIlT50nMpWrxScEziJ78Lraozd8LiQft7sAWBjHHtbheNUxwTzQrjirWu0XEZseKos9DgsWC_snUvPmuPN7Kz7Wmq3rKAFUSM6oqKFt9JGM0IPiYgicKWXpmU8kfBsFP2LQHu0PmWAVs3ZIZS3c1nx65-jAfy3KGCtQ" width="320" /></a></div> --John R </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-smith-family-quilt.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/AVvXsEi7GfLUuvCDBH44-t-nPS5Xftu_QF7DR2PeAnu1G-9ZkhgH4hGciMmbyoDahfht2hqd40A9dux4FILGHvQDZYm26UWECRgVfvrZ5YsbJCRJYRoQ4UqLw2SVX25L0J_9mH6KJcVNZVs564gHjxzxbavYhA3Qpgw0QFUFxKi9ksGT3K8GCm_L7-Qw2rr3-RGo=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4981650784394041805</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-06T17:24:34.766-07:00</atom:updated><title>Geysers that aren't geysers</title><description> So, as part of our occasional efforts to get off the West Valley Highway, last Wednesday Janice and I went to Flaming Geyser --which isn't &nbsp;a geyser and doesn't flame and went walking along the White River (which downstream turns into the Green River). Which, as Janice pointed out, at one point downstream flows by the West Valley Highway.&nbsp;In other news, we're grateful the feared tsunami didn't strike --not least than because we're at extremely low sea level (thirty-two feet I think).--current reading: a book on Suffolk fairy-lore. Well written and very well researched; I learned a lot I didn't know from reading this. </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/08/geysers-that-arent-geysers.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-2631198662240332094</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-06T16:59:41.474-07:00</atom:updated><title>C. S. Lewis at the Taproot</title><description>Well, here's something I thought I'd never see: a staging of C. S. Lewis's last novel, TILL WE HAVE FACES. Adapted by Koren Lund, it's scheduled for the month of January 21st through February 21st. While I usually make an effort to see plays by or inspired by Inklings,* I might wind up giving this one a pass. &nbsp;More on this one as the time approaches and more information about the production becomes known.<a href="https://www.taproottheatre.org/shows/2026/till-we-have-faces/">https://www.taproottheatre.org/shows/2026/till-we-have-faces/</a> In other news: Today it rained. Not a lot, but enough to break the dry stretch of weeks past.&nbsp; --John R.*including one-man-shows and similar dramatizations featuring Inklings as characters, which are generally the best of such works</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/08/c-s-lewis-at-taproot.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-2772453136215837000</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-07-29T20:21:18.320-07:00</atom:updated><title>a few words</title><description>&nbsp;So. It's been a while.--John R</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-few-words.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-1889232067611799379</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 06:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-05-22T23:53:06.672-07:00</atom:updated><title>Fink-Nottle's Delight</title><description> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRl5yJxXe0KvdnY0n9qa60wXckDUlchLJ0hsVN3w0FD0kQW5lOHkPztD_IB8MMscm1_dkNwAWfdpba7NWyK_y-PHo5Czf2qPVZTUz6JdQ_IoMxigtKJHxLv38GAH0-g_ufkPLkgDuTp_YgBxFfPUiSLqgz0pU2iZpPCDbq5rhV1CUDl1sJEBMi7XRIY2sQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRl5yJxXe0KvdnY0n9qa60wXckDUlchLJ0hsVN3w0FD0kQW5lOHkPztD_IB8MMscm1_dkNwAWfdpba7NWyK_y-PHo5Czf2qPVZTUz6JdQ_IoMxigtKJHxLv38GAH0-g_ufkPLkgDuTp_YgBxFfPUiSLqgz0pU2iZpPCDbq5rhV1CUDl1sJEBMi7XRIY2sQ" width="320" /></a></div> Fink-Nottle's Delight<o:p> </o:p>So, today we sent down to the botanical gardens in Federal Way to see how the rhododendrons and bonsai were doing. When we'd been there last things were just beginning to bloom: now they're in full flourish. We especially wanted to see how the frogs were doing. Last time we'd been told by a knowledgeable fellow visitor that soon the scummy&nbsp;&nbsp;little pond wd be populated with tadpoles and then little frogs.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It turns out the delay worked in our faor, and we got to see not frogs but six salamanders --specifically North West Salamanders. I've only seem salamanders in the wild a few times (most notably at Camp DeSoto), so this was a real treat. It looked like a wet lizard.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Walking a little further we saw a pair of butterflies --tiger swallowtails I think; my favorites-- in a patch of sunlight: whether courting or quarrelling I cd not tell. I held out a hand in hopes one might land on it, but they declined.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>And if these were not enough, not long after our path was crossed by a snake making a purposeful withdrawal from our presence.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>All in all, a pleasant outing.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>--John R<o:p></o:p>--current reading: ISLANDIDA by Austen Tappan Wright (1942)<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>--current viewing: The Murderbot Series (on Apple tv)&nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/05/fink-nottles-delight.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/AVvXsEjRl5yJxXe0KvdnY0n9qa60wXckDUlchLJ0hsVN3w0FD0kQW5lOHkPztD_IB8MMscm1_dkNwAWfdpba7NWyK_y-PHo5Czf2qPVZTUz6JdQ_IoMxigtKJHxLv38GAH0-g_ufkPLkgDuTp_YgBxFfPUiSLqgz0pU2iZpPCDbq5rhV1CUDl1sJEBMi7XRIY2sQ=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-8784770183212754846</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-05-02T12:29:04.670-07:00</atom:updated><title>Tolkien and Wartime Oxford</title><description>So, here's a brief allusion to Tolkien's work creating and administrating the syllabus for the accelerated cadet's course at Oxford during WW II:"One of the most eye-catching initiatives was the course in English literature designed by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: this was the first external examination authorised by the University of Oxford."**The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading by Andrew Pettegree (2023)endnote: Bruce R. Johnson, 'The efforts of C. S. Lewis to aid British prisoners of War during World War II', C. S. Lewis Journal. 12 (2018), pp. 41-76.[endnote: Pettegree page 444]I found this of interest because it co-credits Lewis, whom Tolkien outranked professionally. I'll have to hunt down Johnson's article.--John R.--current (re)reading:: the Murderbot series by Martha Wells </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/05/tolkien-and-wartime-oxford.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-1353518461301586704</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-04-09T18:25:39.268-07:00</atom:updated><title>Kalamazoo 2025</title><description>&nbsp;So, barring the unforeseen, it looks like I'll be going to Kalamazoo this year (April 8th thr 11th)&nbsp;after all.<o:p></o:p>If you see me, stop and say hello; I'll be the one with the brown fedora at the Tolkien events.<o:p></o:p> --John R.<o:p></o:p></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/04/kalamazoo-2025.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-3544180321130963690</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-03-10T20:06:14.783-07:00</atom:updated><title>Ring Any Bells?</title><description>&nbsp;So, yesterday, going through a box, I came across the dungeon map I did as part of the Map Order for some adventure &nbsp;I worked on back in TSR/WotC days (the comments on the map in green ink are in my handwriting). &nbsp;Problem is, I don't remember what adventure it goes with. If anyone out there recognizes it, I'd be interested in comparing the draft with the published module.--John R. &nbsp; </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/03/ring-any-bells.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-9101459634882969587</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-02-03T16:52:07.697-08:00</atom:updated><title>four billion dollars in gold</title><description>&nbsp;So, this news item in the Guardian this weekend caught my eye:[BEGIN QUOTE]US banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion to New York this month, before an anticipated escalation of Donald Trump’s trade-rebalancing tariff moves planned for Saturday.<p class="dcr-s3ycb2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, &quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; 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style="box-sizing: border-box;"></gu-island></div><p class="dcr-s3ycb2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, &quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The delivery comes as the price of gold has surged to $2,813 per ounce, and the delivery notices are the second largest ever in bourse data going back to 1994,&nbsp;<a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/jpmorgan-plans-4-billion-gold-delivery-in-us-amid-tariff-fears?sref=fqqmZ8gi" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; 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; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">according to Bloomberg</a>.<p class="dcr-s3ycb2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, &quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/traders-load-us-bound-planes-with-gold-and-silver-in-tariff-bet?sref=fqqmZ8gi" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; 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; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The outlet</a>&nbsp;has also reported that tariff-war fears have made it profitable to fly silver into the US – a commodity that typically is transported by ship because it is considered too cheap and bulky to justify the costs.[END QUOTE]<div>--And here I thought Smaug had a fabulous fortune.</div><div> </div><div>I wonder how much a dragon considered enough to keep him respectable.&nbsp;</div><div> </div><div>Not to mention how much gold and silver Bilbo packed away in that pony's saddlebags. &nbsp;</div><div> </div><div>And what Gandalf did with his half of the treasure he and Bilbo lugged all the way back to Bag-End.</div><div> </div><div>--John R.</div><div> </div><div>--current reading: Tanith Lee, THE BIRTHGRAVE</div><div> </div></description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/02/four-billion-dollars-in-gold.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-2597574690335802674</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-01-21T20:33:05.328-08:00</atom:updated><title>Dice</title><description>&nbsp;So, I've been going to occupational therapy recently in hopes that it will help with the tremors in my hands, which sometimes make difficult things like writing, typing, zippers, buttons, et al. As a way towards setitng up one of &nbsp;the exercises, the therapist asked if I have any dice.Do I have dice?&nbsp;I have dozens of dice. &nbsp;(It used to be hundreds before I down-sized a few years back).Polyhedral (d4, d8, d10, d20) and traditional (d6).Opaque and crystaline. &nbsp;Inked and un-inked (which I preferred). Pristine and worn-down.A lot of these dice are beautiful but impractical, like the Roman pottery dice or set of somewhat skewed wooden dice. Or there's the beautiful but sinister set I picked up at last year's GaryCon, which have a die-within-the-die, with this interior die being a monstrous eye that floats freely to stare at the person rolling the die.For years I carried a d8 (red) and d10 (green) around with me everywhere I went, just in case an impromptu game of D&amp;D broke out nearby. And all gamers I used to play with had huge jars of dice somewhere around their gaming table.In recent years things have changed. Most of the people I game with use electronic dice programs rather than actual physical dice. And it's clear they get just as much fun from and feel just as much suspense with the new virtual dice as with their predecessors.&nbsp;But there's still something iconic about rolling those weird dice.<div>--John R.</div>current reading: THE DRAGON HOARD by Tanith Lee (1971) THE WIFE SAYSIsn't that a paperback book you're reading? </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/01/dice.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-6387542153861378702</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-01-03T20:45:11.456-08:00</atom:updated><title>Happy Tolkien Day</title><description>So, today is Tolkien's birthday (January 3rd, 1892).You will often see it stated that he was born in South Africa, but this is not quite right. He was actually born in Bloemfontein ("Flower Foutain"), the capital of the Orange Free State, one of the Boer Republics. It makes for a good shibboleth when picking up a new book on JRRT whether the author says something like 'Tolkien was born in South Africa' instead of 'born in south Africa'. The latter is the more accurate; the former shows he or she has a more casual knowledge of the details of Tolkien's life.As years go by, and Tolkien becomes more and more mainstream, and the number of books about Tolkien by authors are not themselves Tolkien experts increase, we'll be seeing a lot more stuff like that. &nbsp;--John RP.S.: Here's an old button I've proudly worn at quite a few conventions over the years. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJYHAPrPS98BLeI-V1lyw1gE4jm8GD148d0iir_MWm54sOSx9hw18guMLV2C_GjlTzNOa83i-DjHO2Oh2une9g8oBaKVzWLMaH13xbUe4E4f90XTmbNExXlleAMkv7490MMd68K4Kb-aQKrb04_WZFFxh3K1vKMsRpNvyYDywM4Q_8KKR8mMrvcdqZjOv-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="1402" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJYHAPrPS98BLeI-V1lyw1gE4jm8GD148d0iir_MWm54sOSx9hw18guMLV2C_GjlTzNOa83i-DjHO2Oh2une9g8oBaKVzWLMaH13xbUe4E4f90XTmbNExXlleAMkv7490MMd68K4Kb-aQKrb04_WZFFxh3K1vKMsRpNvyYDywM4Q_8KKR8mMrvcdqZjOv-" width="259" /></a></div> </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/01/happy-tolkien-day.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/AVvXsEhJYHAPrPS98BLeI-V1lyw1gE4jm8GD148d0iir_MWm54sOSx9hw18guMLV2C_GjlTzNOa83i-DjHO2Oh2une9g8oBaKVzWLMaH13xbUe4E4f90XTmbNExXlleAMkv7490MMd68K4Kb-aQKrb04_WZFFxh3K1vKMsRpNvyYDywM4Q_8KKR8mMrvcdqZjOv-=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-5122492498687507959</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-01-01T17:04:42.718-08:00</atom:updated><title>Speaking of Silly Season (Wooster and Jeeves)</title><description>So, here's a good note to end the year on: meeting up with our friends Jeff and Kate to see a new play based on the Wooster and Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. &nbsp;Wodehouse had an extraordinary career, writing about the same characters for sixty years --something of a record in itself. He aso survived imprisonment by the Germans during World War II (during which he was accused of being a collaborator), being championed by figures like George Orwell (never one to hold punches), and knighted by the Queen.&nbsp;More important to his readers, he was also one of the finest writers of his time.&nbsp;Highly recommended, if you find yourself in the mood for some silliness in these dark times.--John R.current reading: THE COTTINGLEY FAIRY PHOTOGRAPHS: NEW APPROACHES TO FAIRIES, FAKES AND FOLKLORE. ed. Simon Young. &nbsp;Fairies and Fairylore series volume 14.&nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2025/01/speaking-of-silly-season-wooster-and.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-3772533252859115182</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-12-22T18:12:54.685-08:00</atom:updated><title>It's that time of the year again</title><description><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Christmas comes but once a yearAnd when it comes, it brings good cheer</blockquote>So, it's time for one of my longstanding Christmas traditions: listening to the Beatles' Christmas album. This collection of seven Beatles singles was recorded and sent out to members of their fan club each year from 1963 through 1970. The Beatles were famous for their wit and repartee: these quips and skits and ad-libed bits of songs (many never made available elsewhere) give a good sense of what it was must have been like to be in the room.After the group broke up, John recorded a final song on his own that ends it all on a pognant note: his "Give Peace a Chance" &nbsp;beginning with&nbsp;<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;"And so this is Christmas . . ."&nbsp;&nbsp;</blockquote>In this time of great stress and strife, it helps once in a while to indulge in a little sillyness. Unfortunately, my original tape, which dates back to 1980/81, has long since worn out. Now the replacement cd I made of it is barely audible as well. &nbsp;Luckily there is YouTube. For a sample ofwhat one year's installment (in this case, 1965, the third) might sound like, &nbsp;give this a listen.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWBtMF2DTE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWBtMF2DTE</a>For a more involved compilation which draws together the Xmas material with other Beatles material given the fan club / Beatles treatment, see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvCPkp0H0U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvCPkp0H0U</a>--John R.--current reading: Sarbon.</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-that-time-of-year-again.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-6300922789866324874</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-12-12T18:12:04.220-08:00</atom:updated><title>The Duwamish Longhouse</title><description>So, for a long time now I've been wanting to visit the Duwamish longhouse the (reconstructed) dining hall &nbsp;/ &nbsp;cultural center and museum and gift shop along the lower banks of Seattle's major river. Last week we finally made it. if you're at all interested in such things, I recommend making a visit.The original longhouse does not survive, but building this new one seems to have been part of a resurgence of the Duwamish people, the Native American people who lived along the banks of the local rivers system --especially the Green River, the area around the mouth of which is still known as the Duwamish, as well as the Black River (only a small marshy bit of which survives) and Cedar River (completely remade around the turn of the twentieth century into a salmon run).The Duwamish people were dispersed in the 1850s. Denied a reservation, and official recognition, they were forced to the margins. By the time of the Native American rights movement got going, there were too few of them left to meet the federal guidlines for establishing a reservation, opening a casino, and the like. That is, there are people in the area who can prove their direct descent from Duwamish living in the area continuously since the time of Chief Seattle himself. But there are none of full Duwamish descent.However things work out in the long term, it's good that the Duwamish people are no longer being persecuted and have a symbolic icon like the Longhouse to help them recover and preserve relics and their culture.&nbsp;--John R-- P.S.: These photos of Duwamish, on bookmarks at the checkout counter in the gift shop, give a good idea of what their life was like a century and more ago. &nbsp;I think each bears the sloganWE ARE STILL HERE, which I take it to be their motto. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOHps8mYlSIXVMD6Q8zS3iVAcmNNumpvz-Dq4eS6UciFk03T5OI_nWYF50U6Q0SgcL0R1ne1LWlM2kZokHLvPRfQCT4DEr4xCjzOkgw986NZ0IZrawPptvpaX7uphmPd92jfWRl64mjfXvWO434iMddqK4D9geewsyszSkhZ2SGJ4ZWwJ5pO7kPWAKA-dD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="232" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOHps8mYlSIXVMD6Q8zS3iVAcmNNumpvz-Dq4eS6UciFk03T5OI_nWYF50U6Q0SgcL0R1ne1LWlM2kZokHLvPRfQCT4DEr4xCjzOkgw986NZ0IZrawPptvpaX7uphmPd92jfWRl64mjfXvWO434iMddqK4D9geewsyszSkhZ2SGJ4ZWwJ5pO7kPWAKA-dD" width="93" /></a></div><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;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin5XyKv_fR-exjmflWV2gA_EG714nVfq-LGhSfm2dzkIzDi4FijH8-odeG42e8vOXW4bTmlAXE7uTAUbMgZiOcmWkOiu4ZXxwwXklO8OuVdO5E301_tzpLgh82UBgQFeJE6CT-MEksL6LxDdeBhGllylbRNZrOJUruv-02G-ov4NNZ3ezMLNqI6rUBg4h_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="232" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin5XyKv_fR-exjmflWV2gA_EG714nVfq-LGhSfm2dzkIzDi4FijH8-odeG42e8vOXW4bTmlAXE7uTAUbMgZiOcmWkOiu4ZXxwwXklO8OuVdO5E301_tzpLgh82UBgQFeJE6CT-MEksL6LxDdeBhGllylbRNZrOJUruv-02G-ov4NNZ3ezMLNqI6rUBg4h_" width="92" /></a></div> </div> </description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-duwamish-longhouse.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/AVvXsEhOHps8mYlSIXVMD6Q8zS3iVAcmNNumpvz-Dq4eS6UciFk03T5OI_nWYF50U6Q0SgcL0R1ne1LWlM2kZokHLvPRfQCT4DEr4xCjzOkgw986NZ0IZrawPptvpaX7uphmPd92jfWRl64mjfXvWO434iMddqK4D9geewsyszSkhZ2SGJ4ZWwJ5pO7kPWAKA-dD=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-7150002773007212278</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-12-09T12:46:19.919-08:00</atom:updated><title>Quote of the Day</title><description>"If we believe absurditieswe shall commit atrocities'--Voltaire Came across this the day before yesterday.If I'd known Voltaire was this good, I'd have read more of him. &nbsp;</description><link>http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2024/12/quote-of-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-9067521933540503104</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-12-08T13:51:21.422-08:00</atom:updated><title>Poison Springs Confederate battleground</title><description>So, I've been reading lately James W. Loewen's LIES ACROSS AMERICA. 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></channel></rss>

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