#Vintage!

Live Acquisitions Incorporated D & D at Pax Prime in Seattle and last week's Critical Role from Geek and Sundry. This week Critical Role must defer to DM Matt Mercer's and player Marisha Ray's Burning Man expedition, but they'll be back. All of these are available on Twitch TV.

JQA was the United States' first great Secretary of State. It was a job he had practically been raised for. He was a disastrous President, but an excellent member of the House of Representatives, and I can't think of any former President who sought and held office in that more humble position or was such an effective…

King Leopold's Ghost is excellent and horrifying.

They managed to bore some 7,000 Confederates to death over the course of the war. The Stupor Teutonicus inspired dread throughout Dixie!

British breweries did that kind of total franchising thing in the 1920s and 1930s, didn't they?

Roux's book is still useful and surprisingly relevant. I'm going to spring the flood story from Gilgamesh on the kids week after next. I can't wait for the "Hey, I've heard this before" looks starting to pop onto faces. ;-)

I haven't been able to make myself open it yet…

I need to read Lost to the West before I do my Greece, Rome and Christianity unit, because the Byzantines and Eastern Orthodoxy are what I finish it with.

I just received Adam Warren's Empowered vol. 9 TPB, S. M. Stirling's new
Emberverse novel The Desert and the Blade, Sir Terry Pratchett's (RIP) Tiffany Aching novel The Shepherd's Crown, and finally my very own copy of Samuel Hynne's great A War Imagined which I picked up used in hardback for a song.
To help orient my…

Mine's the 24th. Cash is fine. ;-)

Happy Birthday, Non-Shedding Feline!

We bought a 2013 Nissan Altima [Name: Big Al] that drives like a dream after our old car blew a rod last week. My Amazon order came in. My students are great and I'm really enjoying teaching again.

His Secret Service call-sign is BFD, because he said VPOTUS "sounded retarded."

His catch-phrase will be "Are you shitting me?!"

"Diamond Joe" wouldn't be caught dead drinking a small-batch Effeminate Milliner IPA from Precious-Wecious Little Brewery!

"Is in alleged possession of" is probably the correct legal phrasing.

Except when it's in the shop.

The infamous "Ass" or "Canadian" side of Mount Rushmore has had some heavy-duty blasting and earth-moving going on for some years now…
Looks like Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding are going to get some new company!

Why do we start with the Halloween stuff so early, now?