book buying tip # 429

Think twice before purchasing any tome cursed with an ominous subtitle along the lines of toward a ______ rhetoric of _______.


Nothing good can come of it, dear readers.

Ivan, inspiration to us all

Motivated by his stylish BLOG MAKEOVER (and also by the ceaseless march of the calendar year), I have updated the banner to match the tenor of our times.

Never let it be said that the Baxblog isn't topical!

attn IVAN

Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, a review.

Not that you need a lot of narrative skills to whip your mewling herd of underlings into making better ground textures faster, but it never hurts to have that extra arrow in your quiver!

Also, everyone head over and check out Ivan's sexy new look.
He's a braver man than I, fiddling with the new blogger graphic stuff.

Update on Litvinenko assassination

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I've been an avid follower of this story since it broke.
Murder by exotic radiation administered via teapot?
Count me in!

strange articles

the weirdest and wildest from Wikipedia.

Including the longest place name in the USA! Faux Cyrillic! This Page Left Intentionally Blank! Fatal Hilarity! Inventors killed by their own inventions!

And a host of other oddities.

vintage smut

Just bought a box of classic old smut novels, the disreputable ones that are almost embarassed to list a publisher.

some of my favorite titles:

Secrets of the ULTRA SEXUAL
The Strange Ranger
Twelve Inches Around the World
Up Yours, Buddy

GRATZ to DT's Brother's Brother

for being named one of Keith Olbermann's Newsmakers of the Week.

Good to see my readers striving to comport themselves public-wise in a way that reflects well on my klassy, high-toned BLOG.