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ng to him read sections of the book holy crap can that man write it was an otherworldly experience when hanif read whether it was opining on when he thought michael jordan was at his coolest the 1985 slam dunk contest or relating the story when a friend of his asked him to cut her hair off however what charmed me the most was when he was simply discussing things with the audience about how the first line of this book came to him in a boogie nights esque way or how he d read lloyd alexander s the black cauldron in his youth wow he s amazing i said to another bookseller who was standing nearby also listening yeah he s good he replied yeah if i had only a quarter of his talent just wow the bookseller told me they were really pleased with the turnout and given that hanif s book tour was only to a handful of locations ann arbor michigan was next i think that hanif knew his audience hanif also had high praise for his editor and he hammered home how vital he believed editors were to the creative process i can t remember the last time i heard an author at a signing give so much praise to their editor in an unprompted manner and it felt so refreshing for hanif to give some love to that often overlooked person in publishing it was a ticketed event so i d have had to have bought a ticket which included a copy of the book for him to sign but that s fine i can go back another time and grab a copy of the book in the meantime i picked up another one of his books a collection of essays on music and pop culture to tide me over speaking of things to tide me over i asked my questing buddy a voracious reader in her own right what i ought to be looking out for when the moon hatched by sarah parker she replied she d apparently had her eye on it for quite a while although part of the store was taken up by the event with hanif i managed to find it in the sf f section there were quite a few copies there which is a pretty good sign it s pretty thick i told her later how many pages is it she asked i thumbed through the book to the end 690 pages oooo they re both in their 90s and are still kicking i much prefer the weekend concerts which i can make more easily that being said my time away from home the past couple of weeks kept me from taking the afternoon off to go on down as well even then i would have had to come back that evening because my wife was intent on staying the night anyway luckily my wife informed me that i d already heard the music they played at a previous concert i attended posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books wednesday march 26 2025 closing in on the halfway point it s been 4 months since the wow classic anniversary servers opened and here s where operation spread the love stands right now the toon levels as of march 25 2025 shaluna was the name i assigned to my druid on classic era oops she s also the first toon to ever wear that corsair s overshirt above that drops from edwin van cleef in the deadmines i m probably a week away from having at least one toon at l30 and that depends upon getting a toon or two into blackfathom deeps both the paladin and warlock have class quests that involve a visit to blackfathom deeps so they re likely to go other toons i don t intend to take into instances much due to the expectations that they ll be healing shaluna or tanking taldanifal i can handle pugging dungeons as dps but healing and tanking bring along extra expectations that i would rather not meet as it is i spend a lot of my time running back and forth between the wetlands duskwood and ashenvale with the occasional side trip to stonetalon mountains along the way people who played classic back in 2019 will tell you that stonetalon mountains is typically one of the emptiest zones in the old world it takes a bit of time to get there and the alliance flight point is stuck at the top of stonetalon peak itself so it s far out of the way for any questing in the zone itself that zone also has some of the first go see people on the other side of the world quests to perform and consequently a lot of people simply skip it entirely cardwyn used to visit stonetalon because it was so empty so she could farm light feathers off of the harpies there without bothering anybody except the harpies well dip me in molasses cover me in feathers and call me a chicken but on the anniversary servers stonetalon was incredibly busy every time i ve set foot in the place i ve never had to fight for mobs there in the past not even in 2019 so this is a new experience for me here we are 4 months into the 20th anniversary servers and new toons are still out there questing in stonetalon my questing buddy suggested they were part of the 4th or 5th wave of toons coming up and she s likely not wrong i put some of the toons i ve encountered in deadmines on my friends list and they re now at either max level or are in the l50s so if those players go and make another alt they ll likely lap me another time or two while i m leveling i have begun going back to classic era a bit lately this past weekend was alterac valley weekend and when the 20th anniversary servers first opened you couldn t find a single av battleground up and running on classic era even on av weekend this weekend i finally saw some good signs that players have returned because about 3 4 av battles were going the entire weekend it felt weird to be back in a battleground after months of being away but after a day or so i got out of my awkwardness and settled into the organized chaos that is a wow battleground i suspect that some players having gotten to max level on the 20th anniversary servers are now raid logging over there and are coming back to classic era to play in the interim i don t have any evidence of that of course but given that the blackwing lair raid just opened on the 20th anniversary servers i suspect people are focusing on raids there and then returning to era for everything else i think i might stay on classic era more as my leveling slows down because it provides me some variety over what i ve got on the so called classic fresh servers i don t mean in terms of class breadth because i ve got 8 toons of various classes i m leveling at once on those anniversary servers but in terms of being satisfied where i m at on classic era i have two max level mages and one max level rogue and i just have no real desire to level another toon there i ve taken og cardwyn through naxx and she has the full t3 set to prove it so i don t really have any desire to go to a raid team and do regular raiding i suppose if somebody offered me a shot at an atiesh that d be nice but i have no desire to jump the line and bypass a bunch of people that have been raiding in an established raid team to get it plus i think the staff looks ugly big turn off if you ask me i still think it looks like a sulphur ball attached to a stick gandalf s staff this ain t from wowhead as far as how other people are doing on the classic fresh 20th anniversary servers my questing buddy discovered aoe leveling in zul farrak and got a second toon a mage to max level last week i knew she was going to get a second toon to max level yet despite her insistence that she was not going to speed level a second toon after her experience with her druid she still did it anyway she claims she s not going to do that again with a third toon but stay tuned i told her i should start a betting pool on how quickly she levels a third toon let s see one of our group stopped logging in but that was to be expected as he got kicked from the guild he was in for being an asshat in chat even after he d been warned i should have had a betting pool going for that because he was that sort of player who was guaranteed to get gkicked at some point someone who shall remain nameless once asked me how i stood for that player s behavior i don t i replied shortly i don t encourage it and i don t defend him sometimes people need to feel the consequences of their actions others in our group have made it to l60 and still others are far enough ahead of me that they ll get to max level soon with the roadmap for these fresh servers having bumped the opening of the dark portal to early 2025 i ve got even more time to get to max level than i thought my suspicion is that a two month window for raiding naxx is likely too short for most players i know it would be for me so blizz is likely extending that phase by a couple of months i ve been starting to think what i intend to do when tbc drops and the dark portal opens while it d be nice to actually experience the expansion without rushing through as i d originally intended i m not sure what everybody else is going to do the optimal strategy for leveling in tbc classic was to chain run instances until you got to max level then start questing so it might be that the actual zones might not be crowded at all if they are crowded however i could just default back to the blood elf toons i intend to create and roll with them for a while and maybe a draenei too that being said do i want to raid maybe i do want to see kael thas die so i can have some closure from my time as a raid lead in 2021 2022 but my entire tbc experience has been as an enhancement shaman so doing this as a mage would be somewhat different most raid teams will only take 2 3 mages at most because that s the optimal configuration so i might once again be faced with the choice of either playing a shaman in a raid or simply not raiding beyond the occasional karazhan run and i don t want to be part of a raid where i m carried either i d rather eat ground glass yummy from budget glass nanaimo used when casting slow fall i ve since been told that priests use light feathers too for a spell water walking or something like that but i never saw priests over in stonetalon only the occasional mage posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love wow classic anniversary monday march 24 2025 meme monday rainy day memes because it s spring ish in my hometown right now and that means rain and since this is pc that means gamer related rainy memes if there s one thing that the revival of toto s africa has done it s brought back the misheard lyric for a new generation from reddit and twitter it s abbie normal from imgflip that s so bad it s good from the wow twitter account this past week i learned what the term mud rain means thanks for all the dirt on my car new mexico from the free press journal yeah that too from pinterest posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday march 22 2025 what on earth is red reading this time the color of magic by terry pratchett for someone who s been reading science fiction and fantasy since the early 80s the fact i ve never read a novel by terry pratchett is kind of a surprise it s kind of hard to avoid sir terry s works given that on top of his discworld novels he has that collaboration with neil gaiman good omens that was turned into a mini series on amazon prime back when i actually participated on facebook there were days i saw quotes from sir terry s works every couple of hours the strange thing is that i don t get people proselytizing me to read the discworld novels like oh people reading robert jordan back in the day maybe that s an acknowledgement that sir terry s works aren t for everyone this feels rather uncomfortably like people proselytizing about ff xiv from reddit the original poster got it from a discworld fb group so i kind of drifted along with the sir terry memes on the edges of my vision and not really wanting to read the books after all reading over 40 books is a bit of a commitment no matter what people say then modiphius released the kickstarter for the discworld tt rpg it looked interesting but given that i d never read the books there wasn t that much of a pull on me however the kickstarter raked in over 3 million in usd which caused me to sit up maybe i ought to go check out these books for myself having read my share of douglas adams when i read the descriptive term british sf f humor i have a reference already in place and that is the standard i compare others against is that fair no it s not but since hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy came first that s what happens so what did i think of the book it was a light read fun in spots tedious in others and i spent far more time recognizing the characters and situations terry poked fun at than simply enjoying the book i know this book was written for people like me because i recognized fafhrd and the grey mouser conan elric okay elements of elric the dragonriders of pern d d s quirks the luggage and spellcasting and even any stereotypical fantasy city with lots of backstabbing this and that so lankhmar sanctuary from thieves world tarantia conan and others yes i put this here for that quote at the beginning from the scorpion king every person that our two companions rincewind and twoflower came across i kept trying to figure out what story terry was poking fun at maybe that s not a fair thing to do but after having run across so many classic fantasy references it came to me quite naturally i m pretty sure that the gothic horror elements of the novel were relating to both h p lovecraft s cosmic horror as well as other touchstones of the 19th century such as the time machine frankenstein and dracula the novel does end on a literal cliffhanger so i presume sir terry had intended to write multiple novels when he started discworld what i ve seen in some other authors is that they write hoping to get a sale and then once a book finally sells they then have to scramble to write more in that world kristen britain s green rider series comes to mind because her first book green rider is pretty complete as it is you can tell in the narration that the second novel came about after the first novel sold that doesn t mean it was a poor book but it s just that you spend so much effort to make that first sale that when you finally do and the publisher says okay what happens next you have to scramble a bit one thing that i do realize is that these books aren t very dense at all this is good because i could go for more light reads and it kept me preoccupied on my 2 to 3 hour layovers at the airport in charlotte last week i do have the next book published in the series the light fantastic and if it reads as quickly as this one then i can spend a few hours here and there reading it while i take care of other things around the house such as taxes i guess you could tell that i hung around a lot of geeks shocking i know i always considered fritz leiber s creations and the city of lankhmar as a spoof of the sword and sorcery genre so a spoof of a spoof posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 7 comments email this blogthis 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