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Next Stop, Disneyland!!! (and book porn and more)

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WE ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL…THE BIG DANCE…WOO HOO!!!

Some last minute line-up changes, including pulling Drew Brees off the bench and giving him the starting job this week, has given my team, The Conqueror Worms, their first ever (and incidently my first ever) Fantasy Football playoff win with a 111-92 victory over Jimmy’s Grind House (who owned my behind just a few weeks prior).

Jeff’s team, Browncoats, put the beat down, for the second time in as many meetings, on the first place juggernaut, Italian Stallions, to earn the right to go toe-to-toe with me in the Superbowl! I am certainly sorry for my brother-in-law, who I looked to get some vengeance on in the Big Game, but he got a wonderful consolation prize:

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Lankhmar Book 2: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber

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Hearken back to April of this year, in the heart of the inaugural Once Upon a Time Challenge. Are you there? If so, you may recall that I read and reviewed a graphic novel by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola entitled simply, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. This was a reprint of their earlier work, paying homage to Fritz Leiber, a prolific author who coined the phrase ‘sword and sorcery’. Although he wrote many other stories unrelated to these characters, it is for the many stories written over a 50 year span featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser that he is most well known. Immediately after reading the graphic novel I picked up the first book in Dark Horse’s collected stories of their adventures: Lankmar Book 1: Swords and Deviltry.

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