Random Geekery
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I’m gonna let my geek flag fly here for a bit, so if that’s not your scene, keep on moving. There we go. We’re alone in here? Good. When I was 12, I played Dungeons & Dragons for the very first time. My character was a Dwarven Paladin, which turned out to be against the…
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You’re looking at the business end of a Wunderbar, one of many candy treasures I brought back from Canada for, um, research purposes. I don’t write candy bars that often, but the Canada trip offered me the chance to try some new stuff, and I jumped at it. Take a good look at that picture.…
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A few important things to know about rock candy: It might be the earliest form of candy, with records of it appearing around 2,000 years ago. It’s pure sugar (with a pinch of food coloring)—if Pixie Sticks are the cocaine of the candy world, rock candy is the crack cocaine. It has a string in…
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I like to think from time to time that there has to be a good chocolate & cherry candy out there somewhere. The two flavors work really well together in theory. I get a cherry mocha at the Wayward once and a while, and the Cherry Garcia Ice Cream from Ben & Jerry’s is pretty…
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I found myself in need of a notebook and pen after work yesterday. This happens from time to time and has led to stockpiles of barely-used notebooks spread among my shelves and various book bags. It’s a sickness. I know. So there I was at Bartell’s, a bit giddy in my favorite aisle of any…
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I feel the need to start off by saying that I love Joss Whedon and his work. I feel he has done more to broaden the kinds of characters/heroes we can expect to see on TV and now in movies than most people working in the industry. I applaud him for that. The trouble is…
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The last time we talked, it was mid-June, so it has certainly been a while. Time for an update, wouldn’t you think? I mean, I could fill you in on the writing I’ve been doing either in the abstract (yay, stuff published!), or the specific (here’s what was going on in my head when I…
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I wasn’t going to do a Fringe Candy post today, despite it being Wednesday, my favorite day for doing these, and despite me having taken a picture with a handful of candy. Things have been weirdly violent and chaotic in Seattle the past week. We had a couple of shootings happen near me or near…
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You really have to hand it to the little convenience store downstairs from my office–Bashir brings in some really varied treats. Plus, he keeps me in functioning headphones–without which I would probably snap and end up on the news. Recently, he started carrying a whole bunch of Hi-Chew flavors. I’ll admit, I didn’t…
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Some people love chewing gum. Some people also love intercourse with farm animals. The message here is that there’s no figuring some people. My dad loved chewing gum. I think it was an oral fixation…something he could do instead of smoking. He was a Double-Bubble man through and through. He’d buy it by the box…
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