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Sniff the Light Fantastic: February 2005
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Saturday, February 26, 2005. It was then that I noticed a chain-link gate to the left, and turning the corner I saw beyond it an open wooden stairway leading up the outside of the powder-blue building. An apartment above.from the outside the accommodations looked to be modest, to put it politely, but still. Aher," I stammered, "I'm sorry, but the door just opened by itself.I didn't mean to.". Abruptly the director bent his face...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: May 2005
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Tuesday, May 17, 2005. The Scourge of Destiny, part 1. I was in the break room playing a quick hand of flaschenteufel with Piker Gabble, Cole Stangle and Zbigniew Chanyeski when a sudden dread cacophony erupted from the office of Darren Truett. It sounded, to my ears, like a firecracker fight, or the flaying of an ox, and the four of us rushed to his door, where a gasp escaped us in unison. Do you think we're safe? Just then a ...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: On Writing: Five Things I Learned from the Bridegroom
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Tuesday, December 03, 2013. On Writing: Five Things I Learned from the Bridegroom. 1 Planning is good. Was not my first attempt at writing a novel, but it was my first successful one. What was the difference? 2 Mornings are good. I learned, rather late into it, that I am a much better writer first thing in the morning than I am last thing at night. Why? Don't know. Doesn't matter. What's important is that I shouldn't ha...It an...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: December 2005
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Wednesday, December 21, 2005. Now flash backwards to the girl as she speaks her rhyme into the microphone, and it is the parents that have strangely vanished, not merely missing but gone from the world; over and over she repeats the words while the little one sits and watches; over and over. What would cause a man to become fozen and tiny? Posted by Joe Gola at 3:56 PM. Friday, December 02, 2005. Do Tigers Ride in Boats?
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: The Badman Alley
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Thursday, October 16, 2014. What was she like? Why always the faint faraway smile? Had anyone bothered to watch they did, of course, but really. Being wicked and ordinary, the curious girls filched the letters from Celestine’s mother out of the trash and read them in secret. The words were sober, careful, and sere, though underneath lurked an odd anxiety. Was she eating? Would she please call? All these wonders the jade gardens...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: The Dinosaur Zoo
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Monday, May 12, 2014. Fun fact: the Belgians have a secret dinosaur zoo in the Old City, out beyond the gasworks and the slums, hidden by warehouses and junkyards. It is a zoo proper, with a wide colorful sign and a ticket booth, with balloon vendors and a clarinet band, but it is on no map or guide, and one only finds it by accident, when lost or in flight. Despite the excitement dinosaurs! When you are finally invited inside ...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: 2012 Film Challenge #13: The Conformist
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Sunday, October 14, 2012. 2012 Film Challenge #13: The Conformist. Just up above there is the ticket stub from the first time I saw The Conformist. I was curious about it because I had seen some clips from it in the documentary Visions of Light. Why is he doing what he's doing? The story that unfolds is both a tense tale of political intrigue and a fascinating character study. What is most remarkable about The Conformist. Much ...
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Sniff the Light Fantastic: April 2005
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Sniff the Light Fantastic. The story of one man's heroic quest to do nothing. Friday, April 08, 2005. John Paul II's New Pet. For those that knew him: Mookie the cat died last night. He was seventeen years old. The passing was presumably a peaceful one. Posted by Joe Gola at 12:16 PM. Writer, film buff, and fan of nerdy and complicated board games. Author of The Satanic Bridegroom. A novel about lust, madness, and submarines. View my complete profile. The Coens’ First Sequel, and Its Cockeyed Genius.
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Skunked Again: Zero Unplayed, and A Good Week's Gaming
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." —Plato. Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Zero Unplayed, and A Good Week's Gaming. Earlier in the year I had mentioned my obsession with getting my "unplayed" list down to zero games—that is, to be able to say that I've played all the games in my collection—but I forgot to memorialize the reaching of this lofty goal here on the 'blog; I played Die Sieben Weisen. Taken all together Taj Mahal. Player must be able to look far a...
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