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What’s a “bricht chaulmer”?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Since moving to Ontario, I’ve been buying my comics at The Beguiling. This, obviously, means that from time to time I have to take a run into Toronto to actually, you know, pick up the comics. So far I’ve managed to work these trips either into other shopping outings I’m taking to the city, or [...]

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Mixing It Up 5: Minksellaneous

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

OK, after a pause long enough for the Minks to cross most of Canada–so much for the “do some easy posts to keep the blog going while work crested” plan–we come to the last one ..and let's finish up with an unthemed mix of various things. They’re all appropriate in some way, but they don’t [...]

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This is the Age of Reason, these are the Rights of Man

Monday, August 7th, 2006

For some reason I can’t get Dick Gaughan out of my head today. More specifically, I can’t get Gaughan’s version of the Graham Moore song “Tom Paine’s Bones” out my head. Gaughan’s version is so much more passionate, or maybe angry, than Moore’s, that it sticks in my head as the definitive one–of course, it [...]

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