Monthly Archives: February 2015
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Guilty Pleasures or Just Artifacts of Boredom?
Leave a commentFebruary 27, 2015 by phicks2012
People talk about guilty pleasures, and about shows that they watch on TV even though the shows are without much …
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Medieval Verse: The Rondeau
Leave a commentFebruary 23, 2015 by phicks2012
Although there are variant forms, the rondeau is a form of French poetry composed of 15 lines, written using only …
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Truth in Advertising
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2015 by phicks2012
Why is it that companies we once dealt with — but no longer use because their rates and/or billing practices …
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Condemericks
Leave a commentFebruary 16, 2015 by phicks2012
So, my hobby is the SCA (The Society for Creative Anachronism), and I’ve been doing this since 1988. This is, …
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Medieval Verse: The Petrarchan Sonnet
Leave a commentFebruary 13, 2015 by phicks2012
Also known as the Italian Sonnet, the Petrarchan sonnet is a verse form that most typically deals with the concept …
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Shire! Shire! for February
Leave a commentFebruary 9, 2015 by phicks2012
In 2002 when I had a yawning, empty space to fill in my monthly SCA Newsletter “The Equinox”, and no …
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Lights, Camera, Nothing but Action
Leave a commentFebruary 6, 2015 by phicks2012
The other day, faced with 1) being mostly caught up on tasks that actually needed doing, 2) taking a much-needed …
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“Tweets and Twitters”
5February 2, 2015 by phicks2012
I signed up for a Twitter account a while back because — well, so many TV shows and forms of …
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Life in a Southern Castle 