Author Archives: Larry Russwurm

About Larry Russwurm

Just another ranter on the Internet. Now in the Fediverse as @admin@larryrusswurm.org

Stories that are Setting Driven

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Larry Russwurm

Fiction writing has long been divided into the two areas of Genre fiction and Literary fiction. It has been said that one of the contrasting features of these two areas is that Genre fiction is plot driven and Literary fiction … Continue reading →

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Poor Harper – He’s Jonesing Right Now

Posted on 11 January 2012 by Larry Russwurm

It’s been about 8 months. Or 254 days. That’s about 6 096 hours. Poor Stephen Harper. That’s how long it’s been since he’s run an attack ad. Who could have foreseen it? Both major opposition parties being leaderless this long. … Continue reading →

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An Offbeat Strategy for an Offbeat Party

Posted on 7 January 2012 by Larry Russwurm

Update: I was down Bleams Road today (January 22) and the sign is down. Which is too bad, really, because I might have done another post by getting a group of people around the sign, holding up their index finger … Continue reading →

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The Leap Week Calendar

Posted on 4 January 2012 by Larry Russwurm

Imagine that you have a birthday on a Monday. ‘Fine’ you sputter on that Monday morning ‘at least I have almost equal odds of getting a birthday on a Sunday or a Saturday’. But you’ve been hearing rumours of a … Continue reading →

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Portents and the Hesitation of Our Ancestors to Call it a New Year

Posted on 30 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm

I’m expecting many of you to know about comet Lovejoy – the little comet that could. It had a run in with the sun that it was not expected to survive in mid December. Not only did it survive but … Continue reading →

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Yer Favourites

Posted on 28 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm

This is my 200th post so today, I’m going to do a best posts of the year sort of thing. Yer Favourites is a title of a Tragically Hip collection I have. Hopefully the name is correct and I have … Continue reading →

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A Jacques O’ Christmas Tree Xmas Eve

Posted on 24 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm
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Boxing Week is for Year in Review Stories

Posted on 20 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm

Happy blogiversary the second. That’s right, today’s post marks the conclusion of a 2nd full year of posting. Last year, I posted links to the most popular posts I made that year. This year I won’t do that. Why? Because … Continue reading →

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Mammaral

Posted on 17 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It was shocking to the humans that first landed on Alexane that many of the beasts there were obviously mammals. It was more shocking that one of those beasts was the mammaral, shown below. As shown, mammarals are almost totally … Continue reading →

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Progress

Posted on 14 December 2011 by Larry Russwurm
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