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“Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton be!,' and all was light."
"It did not last: the Devil shouting 'Ho.
Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.”

—Alexander Pope (epitaph on Newton) & Sir John Collings Squire (response)

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• UpWrite Press Promotes clear business writing, with the best in resources and training options.

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• Alliterates Professional authors’ group originating in Lake Geneva, WI, now with members in Seattle and elsewhere
• PoemTee The original poetry T-shirt site—specializing in haiku, senryu, and lunes
• Popcorn Press My micro-publishing house, specializing in remarkable fiction and poetry
• The Hungry Dead A site devoted to the fascination with “zombies, ghosts, vampires, and other dead things that want to eat you.”
• Vampyr Verse An October poetry contest and drawing featuring vampyres!
• When Shadows Rise A horror roleplaying game I’m drafting a chapter at a time online.
• WI Fellowship of Poets Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets

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• Bruce Cordell Blog of game and novel author Bruce Cordell
• Dave Gross “Frabjous Days”—Frabjous Dave’s LiveJournal
• Dave Kemper A growing collection of poems by Dave Kemper of Write Source fame
• J. Robert King J. Robert King is the award-winning author of over twenty novels, most recently The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls and the Mad Merlin trilogy.
• Jeff Grubb “Jeff Grubb’s Ruminations, Comments, and Other Nonsense”
• Jess Lebow Home page for author Jess Lebow
• Lorelei Shannon Lorelei Shannon’s “PsycheNoir” site
• Matt Forbeck “Matt Forbeck’s official website and blog”
• Monte Cook Home of professional game designer and fiction author Monte Cook
• Stan! “Home of all things Stan!”
• Stephen D. Sullivan Blog of professional author Stephen D. Sullivan
• Steve Maggi A good old friend from GDW days, Apple expert, & quick wit.
• Steven E. Schend Home page for author Steven E. Schend
• Thomas M. Reid Home of fantasy author Thomas M. Reid
• Wolfgang Baur “The Monkey King”

Commentary: Music

Idol Fingers

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

I came home from my weekly poetry critique group tonight to learn that Chris Allen won American Idol.
Okay, this is crazy. Nothing against Chris Allen, but he shouldn’t have even made the cut last week, let alone win. Against Adam Lambert? I mean, come on!

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Recommending the Hazards of Love

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Despite the fact that I’m not a pagan (instead characterizing this post-Baptist, post-Charismatic phase of my existence as “Zen Mootist”), somehow a few years ago I stumbled across and got hooked on the “A Darker Shade of Pagan” music podcast. It’s good headphone material at work, sort of a blend of old-country folk and modern [...]

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