DAILY PHOTO: Dzongri Overlook Trail
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River Song [Haiku]
the river sounds; its murmur is all that's heard... until the cowbells
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Buckwheat [Haiku]
blossoming buckwheat pretends to be a path behind the ripe rice
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ravangla
Milky Way Limerick
There was a man from the Milky Way who never knew quite what to say, when asked, "Where ya from?" he pointed with thumbs up, down, right, left, and every which way
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Asylum Mind [Lyric]
my mind snapped with attention rapt staring out into the world i'd hoped for the best devoid of sweet rest, despite being fetally-curled where was the shore? or the thirteenth floor? they were absent in life & in dream i searched all about, calling names out, but all I heard was a burbling stream but with no water - just someone's dear daughter wading out on bone-bleached rocks she seemed to know all like how we all fall, and who keeps the keys to the locks but I was tied down screaming at clowns, too far gone to see her wind-blown hair what pulled me out? not a shake or a shout, but some stuttered nonsense of prayer
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Red Panda [Haiku]
a Red Panda awakens from its nap, walks, and naps some more
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DAILY PHOTO: A Peruvian Lily in Sikkim
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Andean Limerick
There was a gambler from the Andes who was fond of upping the antes, but he got in deep debt and started to bet: "beachfront property here in the Andes!"
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BOOK REVIEW: The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
The Books of Magic by Neil GaimanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Timothy Hunter is a young man faced with a big decision: take up magic and become the powerful sorcerer that he’s prophesied to become or live a magicless existence among muggles. The story’s structure is reminiscent of “A Christmas Carol,” except that instead of three ghosts showing the protagonist what a jerk he is, it’s the four members of the Trenchcoat Brigade (John Constantine, Mister E, Doctor Occult, and the Phantom Stranger) introducing Hunter to the good, the bad, and the ugly of the magical world. There’s much more adventure than in Dickens’s story, owing to the fact that there’re many who don’t want a powerful new magician coming on the scene, and so Hunter is being hunted.
This is a quick read and a straightforward story. It’s a little unusual in that Timothy, the protagonist, so often doesn’t have much agency, but in many ways it’s as much a Trenchcoat Brigade story as a Timothy Hunter story. Also, it’s hard to avoid with a character who is just a regular boy among powerful practitioners of magic.
There’s a lot of connection to the Sandman universe as well as references to the broader DC universe of characters.
I found it to be an intriguing story, and I thought the art captured the trippiness required of this kind of story. If you like Gaiman’s DC / Vertigo work, you’ll enjoy this book.
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