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He had it coming!

September 18, 2008 – 10:25 am

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Shebeen Club Meeting Monday: Intro to the Federation of BC Writers

September 15, 2008 – 4:38 am

This month we’ve moved our meeting to Monday, September 15th instead of Tuesday and across the street so that we can have the brand-new Shebeen all to ourselves! We’ll play host to Sylvia Taylor, President of the Federation of BC Writers, who will give us an overview of the Fed and what it can do [...]

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Every Day I Write the Blog Post

August 12, 2008 – 12:04 am

and every night someone complains about it.
Nonetheless, every time someone clicks Play on this YouTube, a new blogger gets her keyboard.
It’s true. It’s a fact.
If you haven’t looked out at a crowd of your friends and family and thought, Ah, material! you’re not really a writer.

Every Day I Write the Book, by Elvis Costello
Lyrics over [...]

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Welcome to the Blogroll, George Orwell

August 10, 2008 – 7:48 am

Do I need to explain why?
Seriously, though, I’d have thought he’d have been a little snappier. If he’d had to compete with all the famewhores out there stuffing their blogs with memes, he’d have stepped up his game a bit.
Check out the August 10th entry:
Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.
Yeah, ACTUAL diaries are never [...]

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The Deadbeat Club

July 21, 2008 – 3:57 pm

Well, I’ve never been one to dip a toe in when I could plunge over the cliff taking an entire bus with me instead.
So…Facebook.
MistressCowfish suggested I start a group, because after Friending people, Grouping is teh hawtness on Facebook, which sounds to my elderly ears like a rave gotten completely out of control, but whatever.
I [...]

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Shebeen Club Tuesday: The Moon Project

July 14, 2008 – 11:03 am

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 15th rescheduled to July 29th, 2008
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall
How: reserve @ lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
How Much: $15 includes dinner and a drink
What: The Moon Project with Virginia Gillespie
Who: For more info contact: lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
The Shebeen Club is pleased to present The Moon Project with White [...]

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Cthulhu Porn!

July 4, 2008 – 3:21 pm

For some things, my friends, there are no words. The soulless perversions, both polymorphous and (shockingly) amorphous, of the cosmic aberration which is Cthulhu know bondage neither in space nor in time, nor in any other dimension either dreamed or measured.
Here, my friends, is proof. Cover your eyes and turn away, rather than click on [...]

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Good Ideas vs Bad Ideas

July 1, 2008 – 2:35 am

Good Idea: rollerblading down to the office to pay your dues to the Federation of BC Writers for which you are the new Lower Mainland rep. Gets your dues paid and your workout done at the same time, plus bonus tanning time you don’t have to feel guilty about because you were, hello? productive.
Bad Idea: [...]

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Paging Gérard de Nerval!

June 1, 2008 – 3:27 pm

As we at the ol’ raincoaster blog understand it, Spring is late in coming to parts of the world, and in such times our thoughts go always to those more primitive, dependent species: cephalopods, crustaceans, and government contractors.
Alas, we do not know, for it is not recorded, what became of the famed lobster of Gérard [...]

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quiz: which Lord of the Rings character are you?

May 12, 2008 – 10:36 pm

I could have sworn I got Saruman on this before, not FroFuckingDo. Stolen from Aragorn.

Which Character from Lord of the Rings are you?
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Gandalf

Aragorn

83%

Gandalf

83%

Eomer

80%

Sam

80%

Sauron

77%

Gimli

73%

Frodo

73%

Boromir

67%

Gollum

63%

Saruman

60%

Legolas

60%

Pippin

57%

Merry

53%

Elrond

47%

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a writer’s life: it’s not all skittles and beer

April 28, 2008 – 4:25 am

Sometimes it’s vengeful dames and whiskey sours. Welcome to my world:

Stolen from Gawker, which is quite the Kids in the Hall fanclub this weekend.
PS: Kids in the Hall were formed in 1984. Oh, GOD I’m old.

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Quote o’ the Day: Toby Young on Fame

April 24, 2008 – 3:38 am

It’s rare indeed to find someone whose fascination with the phenomenon of fame exceeds my own storied obsession, but I have indeed located one such sick and deluded soul, and his name is Toby Young. And here is the smartest thing he has to say on the subject, shamelessly stolen from his book The Sound [...]

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Spoiler Alert!

April 16, 2008 – 1:35 pm

By raincoaster | Also posted in Harry Potter, Humour, Movies, comics, geek, humor, mashups | Comments (40)

Shebeen Club: Gonzo Vancouver

April 12, 2008 – 6:35 am

The Shebeen Club: Gonzo Vancouver!

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Where: the Shebeen, 7 Gaoler’s Mews, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street, Vancouver BC
How Much: $15 includes dinner: limited to 40
What: mingling, door prizes, eating, drinking, fornicating!
Who: Heather Watson (Civixen), Gonzo Journalist and founding columnist at Terminal City
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets [...]

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Quentin Crisps

April 4, 2008 – 4:53 am

Sometimes the volleys of blogger tennis get a little heated, resulting in a strange and hitherto only mythical phenomenon. Like Ourouboros swallowing his own tail, a fleeting tangent on the Mummified Fairy post has spawned its own spinoff on FFE’s blog, to which I’m linking back here. Now all someone needs to do is post [...]

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blog fodder made easy: how to write epics!

March 25, 2008 – 9:41 am

We’ve all been there: When you open the Write Post page, the void looks also into you.
Here is the quick and dirty version of how to feed your blog on a majah scale: with EPICS! Who doesn’t like epics? They’re epic! Epically epic!
First: you need a setting. Rip one off from an existing epic and [...]

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RIP Gary Gygax

March 4, 2008 – 7:13 pm

He failed his saving throw vs Death. You just can’t come back from a natural 0, even if you did invent the game.
Gary Gygax, inventor of the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons and born-again Christian, has died at his home after a long battle with illness. He had suffered several strokes and a near-fatal [...]

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Shebeen Club Meeting: Amy Tan’s Birthday Party February 19th

February 18, 2008 – 9:42 am

Shhhh, it’s a surprise!
What: The Shebeen Club Presents: Amy Tan’s Birthday Party
When: 7:30pm-9:00pm, Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Where: Upstairs at The Shebeen, behind The Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: to celebrate Amy Tan’s Birthday, duh!
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy AT gmail.com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation, dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one [...]

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Not Abandoned abandons us

February 18, 2008 – 7:10 am

I guess he’s still bitter about that whole “gelding” thing. Thoroughbreds are so sensitive!
In news that will delight fans of Walter Farley’s classic Island Stallion books, a winning and winsome registered Thoroughbred racehorse called Not Abandoned has slipped the surly bonds of civilization and apparently either dematerialized entirely or joined a herd of wild brumbies [...]

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exactly why I am doomed to burn in Hell for eternity

February 10, 2008 – 12:57 pm

First of all, when people tag me to do memes, even cool ones, I ignore them. Sometimes I apologize, but mostly I just say “you think I’m doing a meme?” This is a continuation of my elementary school habit of refusing to write stories on any of the four subjects suggested and coming up with [...]

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