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I may need to revise my thoughts about horror novels, my cat reminded me (by trying to eat them) that I actually like T. Kingfisher's...

There’s good and bad popcorn, and cotton candy, whipped Jello, whatever. Very nearly anything can be done well or badly, and writing...

I would argue that the power over life and death remains, it's just obscured slightly.

Thinking about this and some G K Chesterton quotes (e.g. “the poor object to being governed badly; the rich object to being governed at...

Blocks someone. Constantly references them as a source of information.

Sometimes I have to log out because I do not understand how someone went from A -> D and there actually is no B or C, they just decided...

Just @ me next time!

Same, I'd read that Read it, very nice - agree. I mean medieval and pretty much every society before it everywhere was pretty terrible...

The thing about My Heart Is a Chainsaw is that there are two books that come after it. :LOL: Most of what I've seen from Jones is...

Because you still need to do other things with that hand, like it or not.

(Emphasis mine.) When I was a kid, I had a cap gun that was a very ornate “silver” and “pearl” 6 shooter, and it came with a Buscadero...

Gotcha, that's on a slightly different scale!

Pretty much. A lot of shootings were ambush style bushwhacking. In California the FD one dept had their station in an old sheriff's...

If you are expecting any minute now to be in a gunfight, why would you have your gun holstered?

Most of the real holsters I have seen covered the entire gun to protect it. When people fought with guns, they carried them in their hand.