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A book that came across my desk recently is a new printing of Shel Silverstein's Don't Bump the Glump and other fantasies. I have always liked Silverstein's work and read it to my kids when they were little. His art is simple and distinctive and his wordplay is wonderful. What I like best is that he doesn't talk down to kids. He uses words to create melody with rythym and alliteration.

One of my fav examples

Pointy-Peaked Pavarius

The Pointy-Peaked Pavarius,...

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For as long as I can remember, I have had a love for the written word. About 400 books come across my desk on a monthly basis, gads knows I wish I could read most of them but there is never enough time. So I thought I would blog about some of the more interesting ones that fly into my radar here.

Today I have a book called Never again, again, again… on my desk. It is a photographic essay on six major genocides: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur....

RPG Empires continues to grow as new regions are added regularly. One of RPG Empires latest region is the Egyptian Empire.

The Egyptian Empire is, obviously, based on and inspired by Ancient Egypt. We all know that once, like The Roman Empire, Egypt was a mighty empire ruled by a Pharoah who was adored and almost worshiped like a God by his people.

Ancient Egypt contributed to the world their knowledge and understanding in the fields of medicine, astronomy, mathematics,...

i'm not someone who can easily change their avatar - i established my look early on, crappy self-made skin and all, and i was stuck with it. nothing else was "me" after that.

but it was time for a makeover

and thanks to freebie eyes and the skin PSDs on the eloh eliot blog, it was way too easy



it was actually tough to get myself to fix the screwed-up...