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Another stop on the ‘End is Nigh’ tour. This week: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr. A rather whimsically ominous look at the folly of mankind. Here’s a description from wikipedia:
It is set in an abbey in the Southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, and takes [...]

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Continuing on my tour of the ‘post-apocalyptic’ sub-genre, I just finished reading The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Good book. On a scale between ‘unsophisticated writing’ and ’shit, where’s my dictionary’ this book would fall somewhere in the middle under ‘just right’. Here’s the breakdown. Most of mankind is [...]

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West coast artiste and terrarium enthusiast, Catherine X, was recently commissioned by the Lord of the Fries to design the new spring line of haute couture fry fashion. Here is a sneak peek.

Thanks Cath!

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Finished reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It’s about one man’s survival after most of the earth’s population is wiped out by plague and the story follows the protagonist throughout the remainder of his life. Most of the book deals with how nature retakes the planet and how the main protagonist struggles [...]

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Last night the Lord and Lady braved the chilly Boston weather to go see the Blue Man Group at the Charles Playhouse. The show was great, very entertaining. As soon as we took our seats one of the production staff came over and asked if I wanted to participate in the show. [...]

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So I just finished reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Disregarding the plot for a moment, this book was bursting with long descriptive poetic passages and words that would give the oxford english dictionary a run for its money. I got used to it, I even came to enjoy it, but above [...]

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Not much going on these days out there in the fry world….unless you count all that crap about trans fats and acrylamide…which is all very boring in my opinion. French fries are bad for you…okay, WE GET IT. Consider this dead horse officially beat.
Not to worry, soon all this transfat stuff [...]

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