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2024 Regent BooksaleAs in 2023, Dunedin’s Regent Theatre Booksale is no longer held at the Regent Theatre. Nor does it run from noon Friday to noon Saturday,...
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Farewell to Fair Go: 1977-2024New Zealand journalism is in crisis. TVNZ – our state-owned television broadcaster – announced cuts to programming this afternoon....
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Lightning over DunedinThe local weather has been a bit peculiar tonight. A little rain – nothing out of the ordinary – but some truly impressive thunder and...
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2024 Reading Summary: February (+ Writing Update)Completed reads for February: Tarzan of the Apes, by E.R. Burroughs The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt, by...
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Rattus Supermarketicus: Countdown ReopensSo my infamously rat-infested local supermarket was finally able to re-open today, after spending a good two and a half weeks closed....
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Of Mining Interests and the West Coast-Tasman Result: Look at the Split VoteThe various New Zealand election donations have been disclosed, and one Jonathan Milne has noticed the role of mining interests in...
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Ending Free Prescriptions and Elections Having ConsequencesSo National won the 2023 election, and since then has set about doing exactly what it’d say it’d do – screwing over poor people...
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The Song of Saqua: Volume VTime for another D&D update. Session XI Gunderlun. So the party is back on dry land. First dealings were with the...
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Daughters of Derbyshire: AcceptedA very nice bit of news on the writing front. My 4300-word historical fiction piece, Daughters of Derbyshire, has earned itself an...
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Rattus Supermarketicus: Countdown and the Rodents of Unusual Location IIA couple of weeks ago, the news broke that my local Countdown – currently the most famous supermarket in New Zealand –...
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The Song of Saqua: Volume IVIt has been a while since I’ve provided an update on the D&D misadventures of Saqua El-Tomoth. Half-underwater vampire, half-human. All...
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Advance Voting versus On-the-Day: The Great Regional DivideIn the run-up to the 2023 New Zealand election, I took a look at the polling data, and suggested that we might be looking at a marked regional...
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2024 Reading Summary: January (+ Writing Update)Completed reads for January: Oration on the Dignity of Man, by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola A Platonic Discourse Upon Love, by...
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Half-Price Rats: Countdown and the Rodents of Unusual LocationSouth Dunedin has been getting some media attention this past day or so. And not just any part of South Dunedin. The Countdown supermarket where a...
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Blackberry Picking: PublishedFirst story out in 2024! Blackberry Picking, a frolic with a water spirit. This one was accepted back in October, and is a...
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Of Fandom Receptions, Sexy Bureaucrats, Sauron, Morgoth, and SarumanFandoms can be odd creatures, and the Tolkienian fandom is no exception. The title character of Tolkien’s most famous book...
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Reversing the Polarity of the Resource Flow: The Left in the Long-TermAs you might have noticed from my fiction, I am passingly fond of writing stories in the deindustrial science-fiction genre. The premise of which...
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2023 More Reading: The ListCompleted reads for 2023: Lilith, by George MacDonald The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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2023 – Blog views by countryWhere my blog viewers came from in 2023: United States United Kingdom New Zealand Canada Australia Spain...
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2023 More Reading: December (+ Writing Update)Completed reads for December: Newes from Scotland, by Anonymous La Belle Dame sans Merci (poem), by John Keats A Dreamer’s...
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Boxing Day Meme: The Sons of Feanor, As Expressed By Venn DiagramsIn the run-up to Christmas, I was having fun coming up with Venn Diagram memes, as they relate to Tolkien’s Sons of Feanor. Having now...
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Merry Christmas: 2023Another midnight, another year. Another Christmas. Best wishes to all, wherever you might be. The gratuitous song this year? None other than...
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Lost in the Desert: PublishedAs indicated previously, my Arabian Horror short story, Lost in the Desert, has been accepted by Eternal Haunted Summer for their...
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Rose-Tinted Nostalgia: The Critical Drinker and Twenty Years of Jackson’s RingsDecember 2023 marks two decades since the Jackson adaptation of The Lord of the Rings reached its finale. This is the anniversary of something I...
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The Library of the Ratio: AcceptedSo November was a good writing month, and one of those stories (Lost in the Desert) has been accepted for e-zine publication. Well, in a nice bit...
