Author: David Jón Fuller
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OK, before we get into discussing why you should see Thor: Ragnarok, we’re going to ignore for a moment that the title of this post misspells “ragnarök” as “ragnarok.” I’m sure if it were a section of Taika Watiti’s Thor movie, there would be a “devil’s anus” joke to riff on here. And I’m a…
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I first became aware of the First World War Battle of Hill 70 when researching the 107th “Timber Wolf” Battalion for a couple of short stories I was working on a number of years ago, which were “A Deeper Echo” and “The Wolves of Vimy.” Compared to the treatment of other battles Canada fought in…
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I’m going to tell you whether to use the word incredulous or incredible — but first, an explanation. A few years ago, as a member of the style committee at the Winnipeg Free Press, I worked on a series of posts on misused words, grammar mixup and other style problems. Editor Julie Carl, reporter Mary-Agnes…
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Here’s my links roundup for this week. (Previous links posts here and here) Hop on for a neural network creating ridiculous musical genres, a reframing of a rejection letter, an unusual Turkish library, and a look at medieval warfare.
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Since I stumble across a number of interesting links and articles, I figure I’ll keep sharing them in little round-up posts like this. Controversial Star Wars opinion: Jar Jar Binks is good I realize if I’m going to keep doing links posts, I may have to just admit many (most? all?) of them are going…