tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42456779424845690812024-03-12T20:34:01.519-07:00Cosy CatastropheAll Things ApocalypticFear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-36187370996579342852018-05-07T09:54:00.003-07:002018-05-07T10:01:58.644-07:00The Further Adventures of Anse and Bhule In No Man's Land a film in review. Anse and Bhule was filmed in 2013. It's an older film that has been slowly getting more attention. I wish I could say that I had stumbled onto it by accident. It had been available to me for free after all. It's included with my Amazon Prime account. It's tucked away fairly deeply in the drama section and there is way I would have found it without a guide.<br />
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Although I did enjoy it, I have to pass along a warning: It's a commitment to watch. It's strange and for the first 20 minutes or so, it's difficult to figure out what is happening and what the plot is. Hang in there though a story does emerge, quite a good one too.<br />
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I read a lot of apocalyptic books and watch all the films I can in genre as well. It comes to no surprise that when I read or watch new books I describe them in comparison to other books and movies I have enjoyed. Same case here. Anse and Bhule reminded me of a mix of a book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Life-Odyssey-Book-ebook/dp/B00AYUOCAA/ref=la_B00AZVMQAQ_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525367104&sr=1-4">The After/Life by Vardan Partamyan</a> and <a href="http://www.exitofhumanity.com/2009/06/riddley-walker_23.html">Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban</a> with a dash of Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon tossed in too. Lastly it reminded me of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.<br />
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Don't worry, I'll tie it all together here in a minute.<br />
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The movie first caught my attention for two reasons. First it had been adapted from a stage presentation. It was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c">done live</a> in other words and I wish I had known about it because the troupe is located in Portland Oregon; very nearby. Second because the setting is just across the border into Washington in the canyon country.<br />
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As the film starts it's set in what I think is a catholic boys orphanage. An event happens and based on the effects later it was a nuke. The film flashes forward and we follow two of the boys, now grown into young men as they play out the rules of the society that they were raised in. This is similar to events in The After/Life. When the nukes hit they all retreated to an underground bunker (like what must have happened to Anse and Bhule). Instead of a culture that has a society based on Catholicism arising in that bunker, they had society based on school. The leader was The Principal and his underlings were Teachers.<br />
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Over the years since 'The Bust Up' their language had degraded so much that at times it was difficult to understand. I was glad after a while that there was a subtitle option so I could figure out the strange dialect. It is English just unlike any I have heard before. It reminded me a lot of the lingo that was used in Riddley Walker.<br />
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The main part of the story centers on the boys, who have grown up without adult intervention and are mostly wild like that band of children Max stumbles on after he faces The Wheel. The rules they follow are a mixture of the Catholic teaching they had as youngsters, their fears, as well their thoughts about how the world works. They have become Clubbers. They roam the wasteland in attempt to clean it up. And by 'cleaning' I mean they go wander and when they meet someone who looks sick (radiation poisoning) or looks hurt or wounded they club them to death and then ritualistically dismember and burn the body. Much like Roland and Maklin in Swan Song; they think the creatures are unclean and perhaps evil.<br />
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A crisis of conscience arises when Anse Clubs an older woman while her daughter is nearby. As an orphan, Bhule has no real memory of a mother but in an instant of epiphany realizes how badly he wants one and also what it means to have taken one from the woman.<br />
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I enjoyed the movie. It does take some time before an understanding of the plot makes itself apparent, don't let that keep you from watching. You'll soon find yourself pulled into it.<br />
<br />Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-91545738198900317892017-12-20T13:47:00.001-08:002017-12-20T14:16:05.778-08:00A Reckoning a film in review <div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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A Reckoning was filmed in 2011 but is just now seeing the
light of day due to legal battles between the financial backers of the film and
Mr. Barker the director and producer. I'm glad that after so many years it can
be viewed as it is pretty damned good. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Many years ago when I was taking some of first undergraduate classes at Western
Oregon (way back before I got my degree in early childhood education, my
reading masters, and my special education degree), I took an introductory
English literature class. It was there that I met my good friend Gavin Keulks.
I don't remember the story that we were reviewing and discussing that day but I
do remember the word he used to describe how the author generated the tone or
feeling of the writing. He said it was a pastiche. This is when an artist (in
writing, art, or even film) puts together qualities of others in order to honor
those artists with playful mimicry. One good example of this is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-4MdPKrGmo">the dance scene at Jack Rabbit Slims</a> It is so strange and out of place in that movie
because the entire scene her costume and all was lifted from <span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykgIVAvYCwk">Federico Fellini's 8 1/2</a></span>. Not in any way
is Tarantino having sport with Fellini, rather he is shining a light on the
film in a playful way. Andrew David Barker treats A Reckoning in much the same
way so that, through the skillful use of scenes and of thematic elements from
many different movies and books, he manages to convey both that a cataclysmic
event of unknown (but certainly hinted at) origin has befallen humanity leaving
just a single person alive and also that that lone survivor isn't so alone
after all, but instead, has gone batshit insane. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first tell that he might be insane is the quote at the movie's opening.
'All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream' The next few lines of
the poem are I stand amid the roar/ Of a surf-tormented shore,/ And I hold
within my hand/Grains of the golden sand-- Those lines become important
later. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Barker also uses story elements from many different film and
books to convey a sense of madness. First is the creation of straw people. Our
lone survivor has spent tireless hours making people from straw complete with
clothing and back stories. He places them throughout his small village. He
interacts with them daily and even holds class with some of them as their
teacher. It is these small interactions that call to mind other 'Last Man on
Earth' type movies and books. It is these elements that convince the viewer
that he is indeed the last man. In The Quiet Earth, Zak Hobson finds himself
alone. To combat the feeling of aloness he takes full-sized cardboard cutouts
of people and interacts with them. Zak at that point is both alone and losing
his mind. But at least our lone survivor is speaking to a real object and not a
total figment of his imagination. In another scene he is shown at a bar
interacting with a straw man who acting as bartender much the same as <span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVVGzEbJC0">Floyd does in The Shining</a></span>. This is of
course just a single example. There are many more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lastly, going back into the cataclysmic event of unknown (but certainly
hinted at) origin that has befallen humanity I wrote about before, our Lone
Survivor read a lot. This can only be a call out to one Henry Bemis of <span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/626428813/the-twilight-zone-time-enough-at-last/">Time Enough At Last</a></span>.
This last part here gets to the main question of 'Has the world ended or
is he crazy'? He reads, all the time. The class he teaches? Just an excuse to
read. He always has a book at his bed. Prominently featured is one called
Noah. This might be a reference to the Biblical Flood or it may be high-five to another movie: <span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454515/">The Noah</a></span>, a movie where a nuclear apocalypse has left a single man alive. The
Noah also creates someone in his mind to ease his loneliness. A
pivotal scene: he is reading to his class as has become his habit when
he encounters this passage: ‘<i>But
now, when I began to be sick, and a leisurely view of the miseries of death
came to place itself before me; when my spirits began to sink under the burden
of a strong distemper, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever;
conscience, that had slept so long, began to awake, and I began to reproach
myself with my past life, in which I had so evidently, by uncommon wickedness,
provoked the justice of God to lay me under uncommon strokes, and to deal with
me in so vindictive a manner. These reflections oppressed me for the second</i>’.
The careful reader will recognize this as an excerpt from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel
Defoe, yet another Last Man type scenario. It is also the view of Zak Hobson in
The Quiet Earth ‘I have been cursed to live’. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So it’s up to the viewer to decide: Is our Lone Survivor
really alone? Did the teeth falling out and vomiting mean a nuclear war had
happened? Was that notion further backed up by his lesson on atoms when he ‘substituted’?
If so was it a neutron bomb situation that left building intact and only killed
people (Henry Bemis)? Or is he just completely insane as all the other evidence
points out? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnCUSAu3cg&feature=youtu.be">Track down a copy and give it a watch</a>. Give it two or three as I did … more clues and hints will jump out at you.</div>
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Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-63613756124731102202017-11-01T11:11:00.000-07:002017-11-01T11:11:29.366-07:00Free Books (Twenty-four)Same drill. These are free but for an undetermined length of time. Get them now in other words.<br />
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<a href="http://www.schifferbooks.com/images/covers/76/9780764345876.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="World Gone Wild: A Survivor's Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Movies" border="0" src="http://www.schifferbooks.com/images/covers/76/9780764345876.jpg" height="320" width="248" /></a>A couple months ago I got an e-mail from David Moore asking me if I would be interested in reviewing his soon-to-be-released book <i>World Gone Wild. </i>We exchanged a couple of e-mails, geeked out about movies a little, and then I forgot all about the book.<br />
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It arrived in the mail Monday afternoon. It's a large, heavy, hardbound book. Clearly this book is meant to be displayed prominently and lovingly on a coffee table. The font used for the title immediately called to mind the knock-off straight-to-videos that once populated the video store down the street from my house when I was a teenager. <br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p51FYX2c22Q/U5sOgF4oS7I/AAAAAAAAB18/4Gt2ReONOrk/s1600/inside+cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p51FYX2c22Q/U5sOgF4oS7I/AAAAAAAAB18/4Gt2ReONOrk/s1600/inside+cover.png" height="149" width="200" /></a>When I opened the cover I was met with a poster-sized two page inner cover. I knew I was in for something truly remarkable. I flipped through it and looked for titles that I expected to find. I enjoyed the writing style Moore used in the reviews for the movies. And yes ... this isn't a simple listing of different movies but, rather, he actually <i>watched</i> all of them.<br />
A careful reader will instantly know what he thought of the movie. Most reviews are short and to the point. Each gives a short synopsis of the film and ends with his opinion about it's watchability, and sometimes other movies like it you might enjoy.<br />
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One small item that I really enjoyed; Moore invented a rating scale. So if
you are in a hurry or think that the review might be a little spoilery (and
some of them are <i>very spoilery)</i>, the icon accompanying the title will
let you know if it's a must watch ("The Bomb") or if you'll be in for a
video rodeo as you attempt to keep your seat and continue watching
("Toxic"). <br />
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I was interested in seeing how movies that I had in my top ten fared in his
system. Here's how it matches up:<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-takPkSvuAqM/U53nU1ooZfI/AAAAAAAAB2c/UkUlK7ruRFM/s1600/rating+system.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-takPkSvuAqM/U53nU1ooZfI/AAAAAAAAB2c/UkUlK7ruRFM/s1600/rating+system.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a><br />
1. The Quiet Earth (Safe Zone)<br />
2. Mad Max (all of them but Beyond Thunderdome in particular) (The Bomb)<br />
3. Miracle Mile (The Bomb)<br />
4. Last Night (The Bomb) <br />
5. The Day After (The Bomb)<br />
6. 12 Monkeys (Safe Zone)<br />
7. Ever Since The World Ended (Safe Zone)<br />
8. A Boy and His Dog (The Bomb)<br />
9 Carriers (Go At Your Own Risk)<br />
10. Hardware (The Bomb)<br />
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And a look at the other end of my spectrum .... the unwatchable or those
that I nearly lost the Video Rodeo to:<br />
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Autumn (Toxic)<br />
Def-Con 4 (Toxic)<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092972/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl">Epidemic</a>
(Not Reviewed) <br />
The Happening (Gold For Some, Useless To Others)<br />
The Sacrifice (Gold For Some, Useless To Others) <br />
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It looks to me as though we mostly line up. With that in mind I'll trust his
reviews and rating system as I hunt down movies that I'd never heard of. It is
of note that he did leave a couple movies out, he either forgot to include them
or hadn't watched them yet. Most notibly (for me) is the exclusion of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh7Ailggiq4">The Last Mimzy</a>. This
film plays out like a children's version of 12 Monkeys where a ruined future
sends stuffs back to the past in an attempt to fix itself.<br />
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The book has several other features though besides just movie reviews. There
are many quality interviews with actors and directors of some of my most
favorite PA movies. Some of these interviews even contain Easter Eggs for
upcoming titles such as Mad Max Fury Road. The end of the book features a
listing of all the movies reviewed (800+), as well the movies placed into
individual and very handy Sub Genres. Among these are: Aliens, Creatures,
etc., Animated, Astronauts Return, Bomb Shelters, Comedies, Mad Max
Riffs, Last People on Earth, Nuclear, OK For the Kids, Biggest Most Badass
Trucks, and on and on ...<br />
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Lastly, when I first got the e-mail for Moore I thought about the website <a href="http://alma-geddon.com/madmax.html">It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Max World</a>. I
was mistaken. It's far superior to that site. My highest recommendation. Order
it here through the publisher, <a href="http://www.schifferbooks.com/world-gone-wild-a-survivors-guide-to-post-apocalyptic-movies-5491.html">Schiffer
Publishing</a>. You'll be glad you did. <br />
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<br />I figure another seven of these and the shoulder parts and my vest will be done. And my fingers will be very blistered. See you in the Wastes. Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-23191898595430436402014-03-10T16:34:00.000-07:002014-03-13T16:58:45.957-07:00Snowfall by Mitchell Smith'But it's so sad,' Catina said.<br />
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'What, Trade-Honey?' Jack said, and turned to kiss her.<br />
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'Don't you see, Jack? It means the Garden people are sliding down. It means we're all still sliding down, not coming up to Warm-time ways.'<br />
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'Didn't you know this?' Jack settled back into his furs. 'I thought you knew that. When I was in Map-Missouri, the people there talked about a man who tried to make black gun-powder lifetimes ago. But it only hissed and made smoke. When he kept trying, it finally made one of the big old bangs and killed him. After that, everyone felt it was too uncertain to try in cold country - and bad luck besides.' <br />
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'It's just so sad! We're not stupid, Jack. Garden Mary's not stupid. Why are we all still sliding down?'<br />
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'Don't know .... Nobody has that many Copybooks - really and very few How-To-Dos. Mostly bad-people stories and complaining stories, and love stories.' He blew a puff of frosty breath up in the air, apparently to watch it, silver, in the moonlight.Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-89329758797975138292014-01-07T18:07:00.002-08:002014-01-07T18:07:37.573-08:00'Arctic Vortex' or Frost Storm? <br />
I'd rather the news called it a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja5q-wqoBaA">Frost Storm</a>.<br />
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It comes for me a lifeless front<br />White hazed hell upon the hills<br />And through the mist an icy fist<br />Shattering my senses<br />Plowing through defenses<br />On every horizon<br />Chrystal walls are closing in<br />Blistering the atmosphere<br />Engulfing all you see<br />Flash frozen to a bitter degree<br />Frost Storm<br /><br />Subzero hammer<br />Pounding through the frozen wastes<br />Brutal avalanche burying decay<br />The roar of a thousand angry gods<br />As cold scorch winds descend on you<br /><br />Every single second<br />tears the breath away<br />Rapid elemental shift<br />Falling fahrenheit the air grows thin<br />Blood frozen before it's bled<br />Frostbitten and left for dead<br />Steamrolling like a tidal wave<br />Bulldozer from the north<br />Tempest howls out the arctic assault<br />Drowning out the light<br />Obscured by winter blight<br />Frost storm<br />
Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-33725473353865970122014-01-05T08:42:00.002-08:002014-01-05T08:42:24.881-08:00The Reapers are The Angels by Alden Bell'And the horde, in the blackout of the city night, illuminated only by the headlights of the car, everywhere descending and roiling against one another like maggots in the belly of a dead cat, the grimmest and most degenerate manifestation of this blighted humanity on this blighted earth - beasts of our lost pasts, spilling out of whatever hell we have made for them like the army of the damned, choked and gagging and rotted and crusty and eminently pathetic, yes, brutally, conspicuously, outrageously pathetic.'Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-86096642297264342182014-01-04T12:17:00.001-08:002014-01-05T08:33:24.777-08:00When Gods Fail by Nelson Lowhim<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ypb52GkJVI/UqZyF--lr7I/AAAAAAAABx4/0jVlC0sIecA/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ypb52GkJVI/UqZyF--lr7I/AAAAAAAABx4/0jVlC0sIecA/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="217" /></a>I've loved the apocalypse in books, movies, and television shows since I was a sixth grader and my uncle loaned me The Stand.. I always understood from the beginning that the old world as well as <i>the laws and social norms </i>of that world had died along with all the people. Any means of stopping bad people doing what they wanted had also gone away. Instead of The Golden Rule (he who has the most gold makes the rules) it's the rule of strength, he who has the most strength makes the rules.<br />
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I might have mentioned before, but just in case I haven't mentioned it, some of the the biggest problems I have had with the show Revolution are that it appears that the apocalypse happened inside a Gap store and (worst of all) that when the good guys get the drop on the bad guys they either monologue and allow the bad guys to regain the advantage or (again worst of all) let them live. The point is that for whatever reason they have not come to grips with the concept of the rules of the old world dieing with the majority of the people.<br />
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This is not the case in the book When Gods Fail.<br />
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This book is set in the Pacific Northwest. In Portland, Oregon to be exact. As it opens our hero Tom is an avid spelunker and had been doing his thing when what he thought was an earthquake happened. Stalactites fell and then the whole thing caved in. Good thing for him he had some emergency rations and that the cave had a nice lil' stream so he makes out alright.<br />
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He spends a few weeks digging himself out and emerges into a much changed and devastated landscape. The only analogue to the situation he can think of is a forest fire. So thinking the fire has caused the destruction he sets out to find a phone so he can call his wife. What he finds is a cargo container that has been converted into a bugout shelter by a couple of survivalists.<br />
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He introduces himself and goes through the social niceties and behaves as though it was just a fire; a localized event. They fill him in on what exactly has happened, a full-scale nuke war. He thinks they seem like nice enough guys and he enjoys the company. When he realizes they are running low on water he even led them back to the cave he had been trapped in so they could replenish their stock.<br />
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However, when they get what water they want, they turn on him and shoot him. They leave him for dead and head back to the cargo container.<br />
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Our hero, Tom has learned a valuable lesson.When he meets new people he takes no chances; he kills. When the other poeple have him cornered he waits and watchs. When an opening presents itself he acts decisively and with no mercy.<br />
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get 8 sugar baby pumpkins (the ones used to make pumpkin pie). Cut them
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pumpkin flesh out and split it between two cookie sheets, should be
about two inches thick. Put the cookie sheets back into the oven and
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The day of the brew:<br />
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12 lbs Maris Otter<br />
4 lbs Munich I<br />
2 lbs Biscuit<br />
.5 lbs Special B<br />
1 lb Carapils<br />
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bed. Mix the water into the grains hold for ten minutes and sparge
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7 teaspoons Nutmeg<br />
6 teaspoons Allspice<br />
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What better way to age and wear in a rucksack than to wear it daily and use it as bookbag? Also patches sewn on are all apocalyptic. Pictured here is my Wastelander patch and a patch I made from my tribe's sash at Wasteland Weekend, The Scavenger's Cooperative.<br />
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And yes I do get some strange looks at the elementary school where I student teach. But <a href="http://www.fear-the-beards.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Uncle-Si-Robertson-from-Duck-Dynasty-300x300.jpg">hey</a> needs to get broken in somehow. <br />
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Da Kid: You know something (looking at a globe), if the Earth stopped turning this side would turn into a desert and the other side would freeze.<br />
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Da Kid: (eyes bulge a bit) People would rush there!<br />
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The world slowly decays
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Destruction fills my eyes
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Harboring the image
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Of a spiraling demise
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Burning winds release their fury
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Simulating judge and jury
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Drifting flurries of pain
Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-57706155871681259412013-09-08T10:38:00.000-07:002013-09-08T10:38:09.858-07:00Free Apocalyptic Books (twenty) Same drill. These are free but for an undetermined length of time. Get them now in other words.<br />
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<br />1) <a class="title" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Wasteland-Chronicles-1-ebook/dp/B00AJF2130/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378658471&sr=1-5&keywords=post-apocalyptic">Apocalypse (The Wasteland Chronicles, #1)</a> <span class="ptBrand">by Kyle West</span></div>
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<span class="ptBrand">2) </span><a class="title" href="http://www.amazon.com/From-Ash-ebook/dp/B00CL3DQP0/ref=sr_1_35?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378660904&sr=1-35&keywords=post-apocalyptic">From Ash</a> <span class="ptBrand">by Trevor Zawalich</span></div>
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<span class="ptBrand">3) </span><a class="title" href="http://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Armegeddon-ebook/dp/B008DYJ236/ref=sr_1_80?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378661557&sr=1-80&keywords=post-apocalyptic">Spaced Out - Armegeddon</a> <span class="ptBrand">by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thom-Robinson/e/B005EYVJYS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_80?qid=1378661557&sr=1-80">Thom Robinson</a></span></div>
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Fear Death By Waterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778239557014960220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245677942484569081.post-56353752064525686212013-09-03T09:20:00.002-07:002013-09-03T09:20:50.325-07:00Dark Inside by Jeyn RobertsI have no idea if MS MR has read Dark Inside, or if the song Hurricane is about that book. I do know it fits exactly.<br />
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Welcome to the inner workings of my mind<br />
So dark and foul I can't disguise<br />
Can't disguise<br />
Nights like this<br />
I become afraid<br />
Of the darkness in my heart<br />
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Also I guess it <i>could simply </i>be about a person who is confused. I like mine better. <br />
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