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Management Lessons from Game of Thrones

If you're visiting my page because you've heard about Management Lessons from Game of Thrones, the only management textbook to make the BSFA Award and the World Fantasy Award shortlist, here's a handy link to where you can buy it and/or read a sample:

This is the management textbook you never knew you wanted, but now you know you have to have it. The hardback has a scary academic price tag

LEXX 4.14: Prime Ridge

Xev wants to try living in an Earth community, 790 suggests the small American town of Prime Ridge, and before you can say “oh boy! Satire time!” we are indeed in the middle of a story about unhappy, empty people who fill the emotional void in their lives with lawn landscaping, eating beef, and buying guns. Oh, and also drugs and alcohol. But especially the lawn landscaping. Xev gets a job as a…

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I Cook These Things So You Don't Have To: Flower Fairy Cakes (Fantasia/Disney)

This one’s from the Disney At 100 cookbook, which features recipes themed around Disney movies from the company’s first 100 years. This is one of two recipes intended to represent the movie Fantasia (the other involves wizard hats made out of ice cream cones, and I wasn’t going to go there). I was bringing a dessert to a birthday party for a fantasy writer, so fairy-themed fairy cakes sounded…

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LEXX 4.13: 769

Prince does a deal with 790, and before you can say, “let me guess, 790 agrees to give Prince access to the LEXX in exchange for a new body and exclusive access to Kai, and he regards murdering Xev and Stan as a feature rather than a bug?” you’ve pretty much covered the inciting incident and most of the plot. 790 has worked out that the key to the LEXX must have gone to a Moth Breeder, which…

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When it's too hot to make miniature scenes in Altoids tins, I can still work on the digital background elements. Can you tell what it is yet?

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My new tiny project is a model of Bilbo Baggins’ house that fits in an Altoids tin.

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drchucktingle

in betweens

i have been fortunate enough to live a life in the arts, creating things and following hallowed footsteps. its something many buckaroos dream of, and as someone who has done it, THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS i received are the moments in between. if you generate with AI, THAT is what you rob yourself of

anyone who has done theater will know this, because it lives in the energy backstage. anyone who has played in a band will know this, because it lives in the late night diner afterwards. anyone who has written a book will know this, because it lives the coffee shop where your plot point locked in

in other words IT IS NOT THE PRODUCT. yes, it is cool to see your name on a marquee or your book in a store or your face on a poster, but the REASON this is cool is because it tethers you to the BETWEEN TIMES. the between times are everything. the PROCESS of creation is a gift to yourself

i think this is REALLY difficult for these ai goofballs to understand, and why the things they make dont resonate. anything you create without the in between is just a hollow shell, a movie poster without small talk at crafty or an album without eating burritos on the studio rooftop

we have ALWAYS had the ability to NOT make something and pretend that we did. the difference now is theres an algorithm built for convincing people whove never stepped outside the theater door for a smoke break on opening night that they actually have. they have not. there is no ai for that.

because the only way to conjure the unfathomable magic of those in between moments is to live them, and when you get a hit of excitement from a prompted movie or book or song without a journey of creation, you rob yourself. you curse yourself to exist as a cardboard cutout who thinks they are whole

drfionamoore

Chuck nails it as always. Yes, it's nice to win a marathon, but it's only nice because of all the work you put in to get to the point where you can win the marathon. And the respect you get for doing it is because you put in the work, not because you drove 26 miles and said, "where's my medal?"

I Cook These Things So You Don't Have To: Shelly Johnson's Cherry Pie (Twin Peaks)

The third and final Twin Peaks-related Cherry Pie recipe is another one from the same unofficial fan fundraising cookbook as Norma Jennings’ Vegan Cherry Pie. This one is broadly similar, but obviously non-vegan, and has as a little extra inducement the fact that it contains ALCOHOL. Because Shelly is a party girl. Continue reading I Cook These Things So You Don’t Have To: Shelly Johnson’s…

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Finished my diorama! You can taste the beer and the fried food.

#miniatures #mini art #diorama #japanese #japan #kushikatsu

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alexaloraetheris

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

drfionamoore

I have been watching this video over and over all day.

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alexaloraetheris

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

drfionamoore

Now I want to take my kitty out for very expensive fresh grilled beef and tuna.

Way too proud of this tiny beer glass with foam.

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I Cook These Thing So You Don’t Have To: Norma Jennings’ Vegan Cherry Pie (Twin Peaks)

The second recipe we’re going to cover in Twin Peaks Cherry Pie month is from Damn Fine Cherry Pie: The Unofficial Twin Peaks Cookbook. This was written by Lindsey Bowden, co-founder of the UK Twin Peaks Festival, and is a mixture of recipes that directly feature in the show (cherry pie, huckleberry pie, doughnuts, pancakes with maple ham), recipes that don’t feature in the show but which have a…