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• New! Improved! Mad Men Top 10!

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  Thirty-nine is the new 26. Eps, that is.Time to take stock, reevaluate, ruminate and marinate.  I was tempted to make it a Top 15 or something, on account of there being, you know, so many good episodes.  But 10 it shall remain.Some are up, some are down … some just are. Up?  How could an [...]
  8 hours ago

• Productive.

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  Lane Pryce: Hello Don.Don Draper: How was your morning?Lane Pryce: Very productive. I have been struggling this season. Don’t get me wrong, I have loved this season, it has been my favorite so far, and that is to be a separate post. But I have been struggling to understand what is going on with Don [...]
  2 days ago

• Still need a few more Thanksgiving cards!

  
  Inkedx2 — Authority: 126
  Well I still need a few more Thanksgiving/Fall cards so I decided this color combination would work well. I found this color combination - Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust - at the Color Dare blog. I combined it with the sketch challenge at the Diva Coffee Break Designs blog. I think the stamp set ...
  3 days ago

• Skulls and Dust… (Egypt’s curse is a deathly thing.)

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  The Persian slaughtered the Apis Bull; (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.) And the brain fermented beneath his skull. (Egypt’s curse is a deathly thing.)   He rode on the desert raider’s track; (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.) No man of his gleaming hosts came back, And the dust winds drifted sombre and black. ...
  3 days ago

• Rude Awakenings

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  After the trauma of the JFK assassination last week, Mad Men’s finale takes a much lighter approach.  Consistent with its title, Shut the Door. Have a Seat offered viewers a comfortable chair (or Wentworth) to cool down in after the wild ride of Season Three.  That’s not to say important things didn’t ...
  6 days ago

• Conan the Rehash

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  Right now, the reaction across the internet regarding the recent casting call for the upcoming Conan film falls into roughly three camps. The first, and largest, camp is that of the average movie-goer: they are not averse to the idea of a reboot of the “original” Conan film, and with the critically successful ...
  1 week ago

• The Years Are As A Knife

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  I was still in high school when I found a copy of “ Magazine of Horror ” #19, the January 1968 issue. I had read some of Howard’s poetry by then, but mostly as headers in the fiction, and a few from comics, and an old Arkham anthology I found in a library, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight . I remember how ...
  1 week ago

• The Book of Merlyn—Homo Ferox and the Howardian connection

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  A good man’s example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content: and so, strong courage to Your Majesty, and a tranquil heart. —T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn The King Arthur myth has been told, re-told, and ...
  1 week ago

• As Above, So Below

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  In the occult, the phrase “As above, so below” means that large things correspond to small things; the ways of the universe correspond to the ways of the individual, and vice versa. The phrase is symbolized in the tarot card of The Magician; he points above and below, and on his table are the four [...]
  1 week ago

• Voices of God

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  So many great meanings behind last night’s title.  Certainly there were explicit grown-up voices: Mona putting her maternal foot down with Margaret; Roger echoing her tone with Jane, his child bride; Don and Betty’s widely differing approaches to acting grown-up for their kids; Duck being grown-up and thinking of ...
  1 week ago

• Charles Saunders Posts a Guest Blog at Black Gate

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  Charles R. Saunders , legendary Sword-and-Sorcery author and Friend of The Cimmerian , has posted a guest blog over at the Black Gate website . It’s a review of Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” series . A big reason why it should interest readers of   The Cimmerian (besides the obvious), is that Mr. ...
  1 week ago

• Voices of God

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  So many great meanings behind last night’s title.  Certainly there were explicit grown-up voices: Mona putting her maternal foot down with Margaret; Roger echoing her tone with Jane, his child bride; Don and Betty’s widely differing approaches to acting grown-up for their kids; Duck being grown-up and thinking of ...
  1 week ago

• Four-Volume Boxing Set Forthcoming From the REHF

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  Over on the Official Robert E. Howard Forum , Mark Finn (see right) let the bulldog out of the bag. Here’s what he had to say…   The boxing stories WILL be reprinted in the deluxe, annotated Hoops and Bells and Whistles treatment, but it will be done by the Foundation. The current plans are for FOUR ...
  1 week ago

• The house with the red door

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  Am I the only one who didn’t get this reference? I’d heard that Matt wanted the Draper residence to have a red door; that was important to him. So is this why?I just can’t wait to see how the assassination is dealt with. It’s one of the biggest mysteries in television history, but it’s a [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Food, Glorious Food!

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  One of the major motifs used in The Gypsy and the Hobo is food.It’s introduced by former (and potential) Sterling Cooper client Annabelle Mathis of Caldecott Farms.  Her company manufactures dog food out of horse meat.  Caldecott Farms is trying to overcome negative public opinion after news of their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Card set

  
  Stamp on This — Authority: 117
  Heres a set of 4 cards I made using Baroque Motifs and the baby wipe ink pad I talked about earlier this week. The colors I used were Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry and Elegant Eggplant. Each card is a white card measuring 5 1/4 X 8, scored at 4. The card is backed by a piece of colored cardstock ...
  2 weeks ago

• (Mis)casting Call For a Barbarian (y’all better sit down for this one)

  
  The Cimmerian — Authority: 134
  CROM! WARNING : The review below has been written in full “snark” mode. It is about four thousand words long. You might want to grab a drink (a strong one) or a sandwich (or both)…   In the past few weeks, there have been persistent rumors of Jared Padelecki, the co-star of the series, Supernatural , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dynamic interactions of proteins in complex networks: a more structured view.

  
  Macromolecular Modeling Blog — Authority: 115
  This recent mini-review by Stein et al. focuses on the mechanisms that enable dynamic, transient, short lived interactions in cellular networks. Of special interest are the always popular "motif recognition domain"-"short flexible peptide" interactions. However, post translational modifications and regulation by ...
  2 weeks ago

• One Sheet Wonder

  
  Stamp on This — Authority: 117
  Have you ever made a one sheet wonder? A one sheet wonder is one big piece of cardstock that you stamp with multiple images, like making your own sheet of patterned paper. Then you cut the sheet into pieces and use them on multiple projects. For this card, I used the baby wipe stamp pad from Mondays post(Regal Rose, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gypsies, tramps and thieves

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 529
  I’m always gonna love Minnie Mouse.There was a bit of discussion about why Sally and Bobby were dressed in these costumes, when earlier in the episode they had talked about being Minnie Mouse and an astronaut.The reason that the kids’ first-choice costumes were nixed, and this was also discussed, was that neither ...
  2 weeks ago

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