Michael Livingston

Mar

30

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 14

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Mar

29

Onion Videos

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I’m sure everyone knew about this, and I’m just late to the party, but … The Onion, a fine source of satire, has videos on YouTube!
I had no idea until this afternoon, when an esteemed fellow medievalist (we’re all fun folk), John K. Bollard, sent me this link to a “news” piece on the queen’s […]

Mar

29

Squirrel Killing

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There was a reason I YouTubed (is that a verb now? Like “to Google”?) Squirrel Nut Zippers the other day: we’ve had a significant squirrel-in-attic problem here for a few weeks.
Now, since I technically live on Citadel property, I don’t have to pay for pest control to deal with this sort of thing. I […]

Mar

27

Squirrel Nut Zippers

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There are many reasons to love YouTube. This is one of them:

Mar

25

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 13

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Mar

24

Review of “A Very Young Boy with Largely Clipped Wings”

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J. C. Runolfson over at The Fix reviews the latest issue of Shimmer: the “art issue” wherein writers were asked to write to the inspiration of artwork rather than the usual story-inspiring-art scenario. It’s a very thorough, very insightful review of the issue, with some rather kind things to say about my own contribution […]

Mar

23

780 Gallons of Leaves

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That’s what we raked up from the yard this afternoon. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a big yard. Indeed, I believe it constitutes a small to average yard in America. And much of it was raked a couple months ago.
Twenty (20) 39-gallon trash bags filled to bursting. That’s approximately […]

Mar

22

Jordan Induction Recalled

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A recollection of the South Carolina Academy of Authors induction ceremony for James O. Rigney, Jr. (Robert Jordan) that I attended two weeks ago has been posted on “Robert Jordan’s Official Blog” over at the esteemed dragonmount.com. The touching write-up is by Wilson, Jim’s brother/cousin, whom I may have met that night without realizing […]

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