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Month: November 2012

Weekend!

November 30, 2012Jaybird 22 Comments

Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. Work is winding down for the year, I’m told. I wouldn’t know. None of my daily plans survive the contact of my butt hitting the chair. I went in today planning… Continue Reading →

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Rules!

November 29, 2012Jaybird 4 Comments

This is a guest post from our very own Mike Schilling! Euclid’s Elements begins its study of geometry by listing five self-evident postulates, from which the whole of the science will be proven: A straight line can be drawn between… Continue Reading →

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Somniloquy!

November 29, 2012Jaybird 53 Comments

Our assignment was to read the fifth and sixth issues from The Doll’s House: Men of Good Fortune and Collectors. KatherineMW provides the former, Jason Tank provides the latter. Glyph’s introduction to Sandman, in three parts, here, here, and here. Preludes and… Continue Reading →

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I Bought Zombicide

November 28, 2012Patrick 6 Comments

I’ll post a review after I play it. I was sold on it after reading a review from my local game store owner’s Facebook page, excerpt follows: ZOMBICIDE MINI-REVIEW: Ok, I finally broke down and took a copy of Zombicide… Continue Reading →

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Wednesday!

November 28, 2012Jaybird 16 Comments

Brother Kyle has recently read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and has come away from it bummed. A couple of weeks ago, Brother Mike mentioned this song as a vaccination against grumpy. I’ve got a handful of those myself. Here are a couple:… Continue Reading →

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Bookclub!

November 27, 2012Jaybird 6 Comments

This week, our assignment was to watch the episode “The Abducted” from Season Three of Fringe. (You can read the Television Without Pity Recap here, while the AV Club has their recap of the episode here. The post dedicated to… Continue Reading →

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Nationalism!

November 26, 2012Jaybird 3 Comments

You’ve seen Independence Day, right? That seems like such a silly thing to ask but you start counting on your fingers and you realize that it’s pretty much the same thing as someone in 2028 asking “You’ve seen The Avengers,… Continue Reading →

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Sunday!

November 25, 2012Jaybird 42 Comments

So we had a Burn Notice Season Three marathon on Friday and we yelled “HOLY COW!” at the screen more than once. We also yelled “DANG!” more than once because this was, apparently, the “broken ankle” season. Everybody broke their… Continue Reading →

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Saturday!

November 24, 2012Jaybird 10 Comments

I’m still playing Assassin’s Creed III but I’ve also picked up Hitman: Absolution and it’s sitting over there on the couch waiting to be the game for after AC:III. Gotta say, though, I understand that Hitman spends most of its… Continue Reading →

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Somnology!

November 24, 2012Jaybird 9 Comments

For this week’s segment, we’re going to be reading the next two stories, “Men of Good Fortune” and “Collectors” and we’ll discuss them Thursday. If I’m not mistaken, KatherineMW will be doing the honors once again. It has also come… Continue Reading →

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