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Author Archives: Larry Russwurm
Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons
For their first album I wrote a post to show how every Imagine Dragons song on their first album had a title that had been used earlier. As a control, I compared it with a Kate Bush CD which also … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Writing
Tagged American Authors, Are Imagine Dragons title mining, Artists gave up on unique song titles many years ago, Believer, Bruce Springsteen, Dancing in the Dark, Evolve, gold, I Bet My Life, Imagine Dragon fans must love title mining, Imagine Dragons, jinx, Kate Bush, lost the pro title mining crowd, most album names are unique, Mouth of the River, Night Visions, Parachute Club, Rise Up, Sampson!, Shots, Smoke + Mirrors, sophomore, the Beatles, Thunder, title mining, Walking the Wire, Yesterday
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In Search of Justin Trudeau’s Middle Class
It’s a question I had often wondered about but never found by my own thoughts. So I started to ask it out loud. First of all I know that I am not a part of Justin Trudeau’s middle class. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Mathematics, Politics
Tagged a brief check of Justin's policy makes you realize his middle class leans heavily toward the rich, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., E. Hunter Harrison, government employees who make over 100 grand, has Justin trudeau ever helped you?, Justin helps the rich, Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's middle class, middle can mean any amount between two endpoints, middle class, middle is a vague word, neodefinitions, Ontario's sunshine list, quest
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The 6 Basic Characters and the 5 Basic Settings
If you have delved into writing for any large degree you must have come across the idea (or the book) that there are seven basic plots. Now I am not going to tell you what these seven are (some have … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics, Writing
Tagged 2 basic plots, 5 basic settings, 6 basic characters, 7 basic plots, alien, comedy, divine places, Earth, free fall, godlike or near godlike, hard surfaces with gravity, human, jading youth, lesser magical creatures, robot or computer, tragedy, weird science fiction settings, writing
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The Thousand Year Connoisseur
There is no doubt that becoming an expert takes a lot of time and effort. To become a connoisseur is almost like becoming an expert’s expert. There is a lot of knowledge involved – look no further than the wine … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged connoisseur, expert, human blood, maybe the sophisticated vampire can tell all that scientific tests say about our blood, maybe vampires can do tests that don't involve fasting, scientific analysis, thousand years to hone skills, vampire might be faster, vampires, win/win, wine taster can tell you things about the cask
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Why Do Extreme Right Wing Authors Glorify the Left?
Robert A. Heinlein was an extreme right wing author with his assertion that he was libertarian. Some of you may correlate libertarians with liberals but there is no real connection. Libertarians largely believe that the government should provide a military … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged "buggers", communal, communism, don't want to be seen as too antisocial, Ender Series, Ender's Game, fundamental tenet of communism, gay marriage, Have Space Suit - Will Travel, Hive Queen, left wing, liberal, libertarian, Orson Scott Card, overthrowing the government, piggies, right wing, Robert A. Heinlein, the Tea Party, US, virus, Xenocide
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Be Careful Little Mars
Fragile is a classic album by the band Yes and illustrated by Roger Dean. The front of this cover has an idyllic looking miniature world with a “wooden” spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings flying above and is pictured … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Politics, Science Fiction
Tagged bomb, China, classic albums, Earth, Fragile, Mars, MAVEN, moorglade mover, NASA, rover, Russia, space probe, spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings, Star Trek : TNG, third eye death stare, USA, Viking, Viking landed in 1976, what if NASA sent an unsterilized probe to Mars, Yes
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Shhhhh, Prince Harry
Prince Harry just let loose the thinking in the current British royal family. As it turns out, no one wants to be king but they are willing to do it anyway, out of some warped sense of duty. Aren’t we … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, History, Humour, Politics
Tagged British royal family, line of succession and how it changes, long con, middle children and youngest siblings have lots to complain about in royal family, no one wants to be king, Prince Charles, Prince George, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Charlotte, proper bloodline, QE II, save your life Prince Harry
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Dysing Dystopias II
Dystopias can largely be thought of as a series of setbacks for the protaganist, none of which are significantly overcome. This is the problem of the dystopia for me. Setbacks can be thought of as the machinery of plot. The … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged can lose to setbacks, can overcome setbacks, can turn a novella to a novel with more setbacks, Dystopia, machinery of plot, ministry of ongoing war, ministry of peace, new solutions are found in more positive fiction, protaganist, sensawunda, sensawunda science fiction, setbacks, writing dystopias is easier than writing more positive fiction
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Dysing Dystopias I
I don’t like dystopias in science fiction although I see how popular some of them are. I am young enough to have taken science fiction books (that’s right plural) in some of my English classes. I was disappointed with every … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Writing
Tagged 1984, Cory Doctorow, Donald Trump, dystopias, English class, Handmaid's Tale, inciting to legislate badly, Little Brother, lobbyists, Oops I feel a dystopia coming on, politicians use dystopias as a guidebook, science fiction, sensawunda, the English establishment, UK
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