
Getting email updates from your favourite blogs is a lot of fun, but sometime the sheer amount of Stuff™ arriving into your inbox can be overwhelming.
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In 1966, James Brown sang "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"—a song which goes on to detail the various accomplishments of men, such as inventing the electric light and making toys...
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…on fanfiction.net! This page is created as a visual aid to assist writers in using fanfiction.net’s text editor to its best effect when inserting a spacer/line break to change scenes. If...
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I love words. As a reader I love to read them, and as a writer I love to write them. I enjoy finding new ways of saying things. New turns of...
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All hands—Battlestations! (or, The Urban Spaceman rambles about Star Wars, Star Trek, and how Domhnall Gleeson may be the next Gary Oldman) Today is an exciting day. Amazon just gave me...
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I just realised I missed saying HAPPY NEW YEAR to readers at the start of the new Gregorian Calendar. Which is just as well, since I hate New Year. It’s a...
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Observations of The Urban Spaceman