Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them.
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Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
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It’s remarkable how British TV in the 90s produced two shows as good as Sharpe and Hornblower.
It all started when Sam Reich bought it and turned it from a comedy website into a hug box for unfunny liberal millennials who went 200k in debt studying theater.
If his last name looks familiar, you might recognize his dad as this leprechaun who spent five decades on CSPAN.
Wait until they hear about these things that cast shadows and shade over most of Arlington National Cemetery most of the year already.
They're called "trees".
President Trump's planned 250-foot-tall arch would cast shadows on many graves and monuments in nearby Arlington National Cemetery, the @washingtonpost's 3-D analysis found.
On some days, Trump's arch would even shade the grave and eternal flame of JFK.
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The whole "men don't read" discourse is just a misandrist talking point. They do. In fact, 71% of men read a book in any format. It's not that men don't read; just that their preferences are different from women's. They dominate in topics such as science, history, politics etc.
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Is the "boys don't read" problem a matter of supply or demand?
More than 70 percent of staff at America's Big Five publishers are women, as are more than 70 percent of editors and a majority of executives.
Adam Szetela argues this is the single biggest transformation in the history of American publishing, and that an industry recruiting almost entirely from elite universities has narrowed what reaches the shelves.
quillette.com/2026/10/23/why…
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James Madison might be a rising college football power, but just remember--their defense couldn't stop the White House from getting burned down.
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Unfortunately, Bioware really only had 3 distinct options going forward.
(I am probably not the first person to make this joke)
The Big 0 mecha is an all-time great mecha design because its so wildly different - an art deco dieselpunk colossus that moved and hit like a freight train.
Also, the whole show is an example that anime pulls as much from the West as we do Japan.
I saw this for the first time in a military theater while in my Army days.
In a theater full of guys just back from Iraq and Afghanistan, everyone agreed it was the worst thing they'd seen in a year.
Literal war was an improvement.
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I was a bit concerned since it's James Bond it wouldn't have that Ennis flair but I was definitely worried for nothing
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I continue to maintain that the Boys Adventure Books by Raconteur are among the most important books in publishing right now. The whole they are filling is immensely important.
And my nephew (age 9) LOVES them.
No. Dozens of people in Hollywood taking payoffs or agreeing to shill the party line by the Soviets did.
The Soviet archives were made public in the 90s - we know who was on the Soviet payroll.
That included Dalton Trumbo, who took payoffs and marching orders from Moscow.
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"Oh I just started reading Leiber's Fafhrd & Grey Mouser stories, Ill Met In Lankhmar is so much fun, what a cool adventuring group with Vlana and Ivrian!"
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🤖 Made with AI
A poem by Anne Carson, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read it in full: newyorker.com/magazine/2001/…
Moscow one week after Operation Unthinkable happened. Repeated until the message sticks.
This is the same USSR that lost a war to Finland twice, relied on Lend-Lease to fight Germany, and whose entire war strategy was "Throw more bodies at them."
I feel the need to point out a significant chunk of men's adventure novels were published by Harlequin and other Romance publishers BECAUSE they knew such a market for male readers existed.
And because thier female romance readers bought the spicy men's adventure stuff, too.
I have an unsold short story that is sort of an important detail.
War between secret hidden wizard clans breaks out of containment. Muggles beat both in a day.
Finding out wizards have been hiding an instantaneous cure to cancer is what gets humanity to say all wizards are evil.
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I've been reading some OG Conan the Barbarian lately. Conan goes hard:
"Our desires are quickly spoken, king of Aquilonia," said Tsotha. "It is our wish to extend our empire."
"And so you want to swine my kingdom," rasped Conan.
"What are you but an adventurer, seizing a crown to which you had no more claim than any other wandering barbarian?" parried Amalrus. "We are prepared to offer you suitable compensation—"
"Compensation!" It was a gust of deep laughter from Conan's mighty chest. "The price of infamy and treachery! I am a barbarian, so I shall sell my kingdom and its people for life and your filthy gold? Ha! How did you come to your crown, you and that black-faced pig beside you? Your fathers did the fighting and the suffering, and handed their crowns to you on golden platters. What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.
"You sit on satin and guzzle wine the people sweat for, and talk of divine rights of sovereignty—bah! I climbed out of the abyss of naked barbarism to the throne and in that climb I spilt my blood as freely as I spilt that of others. If either of us has the right to rule men, by Crom, it is I! How have you proved yourselves my superiors?
"I found Aquilonia in the grip of a pig like you—one who traced his genealogy for a thousand years. The land was torn with the wars of the barons, and the people cried out under oppression and taxation. Today no Aquilonian noble dares maltreat the humblest of my subjects, and the taxes of the people are lighter than anywhere else in the world.
"What of you? Your brother, Amalrus, holds the eastern half of your kingdom, and defies you. And you, Strabonus, your soldiers are even now besieging castles of a dozen or more rebellious barons. The people of both your kingdoms are crushed into the earth by tyrannous taxes and levies. And you would loot mine—ha! Free my hands and I'll varnish this floor with your brains!"