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The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett, Selected Stories and Short Novels, edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman, Vintage Books...

Railroad Sunset by Hopper Month Six, in which the outdoors has been taken away from me. You have seen the news about California being on fi...

[ Blogger's Note : I had this entry all written up with all manner of individual photos of the games, but the most recent incarnation of...

No. You’re wrong. Totally wrong. He never said that. He never did that. That can’t be right. You must be mistaken. You must ha...

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Circe by Madeline Miller, Back Bay Books, trade paperback edition 2020 Provenance: Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club at work, to be...

Rooms by the Sea - Edward Hopper We conclude the fifth month of relative isolation. At what point does the new normal become just ... normal...

I usually wait a couple days before posting the results, because of the nature of our mail-in system. Late ballots can turn the tide in clos...

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You got the ballots. You got the links to other recommendations. You aren't doing anything else around the house except re-orging the s...

Last one, then we sum up. The State Legislative District 11 is an oddly-shaped beast. It is kinda dragonish, its upturned head in SoDo, its ...

As I mentioned earlier, in Washington State the entire upper tier of the executive branch comes up for re-election every four years. Most of...

Washington Secretary of State primarily oversees the voting, and in the present environment that's a pretty major task. As I mentioned, ...

Attorney General, the state's law firm. I'm surprised it isn't a mini-series on NetFlix. Let's get Aaron Sorkin on it, pront...

Lieutenant Governor in the state of Washington is akin to that on a national level - Runs the State Senate. Steps in when the Governor is ou...

There are 36 candidates on the ballot for Governor. Blame COVID-19. I am serious. In usual times, you have to get so many signatures to ge...

Let's start at the Federal Level: in our case, United States Representative Congressional District Number 9.  My home district. District...

Whelp, here we are again. For people that just stop by for the book reviews, I do local politics here. I got into it many, many years ago,...

So, the Facebooks had one of those challenges 10 roleplaying games that have influenced my gaming. No explanations, no reviews. Now you ge...

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon, Ballantine/Del Rey, 2007, art by Gary Gianni Provenance : Elliot Bay Books, time undetermined bu...