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Dee’s Blog

Place of musings, mutterings and many puppy pictures

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The Best Supernatural Villains

Today, some of my fellow authors and I discuss our absolute favorite villains and what makes us love to hate them (or just plain love them!).

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Spouse versus THE PAN

It began, as so many things do, at Christmas. A cheese-soaked lull between brunch and dinner, early… but not too early for drinks.

(Never too early for drinks.)

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Werewolves and Fuzzy Magic Mirrors

I know, I know. A fuzzy mirror wouldn't be all that useful. Or reflective. It might even need combing, or a bath...

ANYWAYS. Bear with me, I'll get there. *snicker* Bear, get it?

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Scrape, scrape, wince.

Scrape. Oh the dentist's office. You sit down in a reclining chair that seems designed to be comfortable, but is actual built to prevent easy escape. You're given headphones and a TV remote, but only have daytime TV. If you can hear it over the drill…

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Girding My Conference Loins

Loins. *snicker*

Ahem.

Like so many of the writers I know and follow and admire, I’m an introvert—but I wear extroversion wonderfully. I’ll don killer shoes, a bold shade of red lipstick, armor-up with jewelry and bright scarves, and happily meet everyone. Talk books, art, politics, puppies—you name it—and I have a great time. How many times a year do I get to spent an entire weekend with people who love what I love and do what I do? (Hint: one)

It’s fucking glory.

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And so it begins. *Drum roll*

Here we go. I'm officially starting the blogging thing! 

This means OPINIONS and THOUGHTS and STUFF and pictures of PUPPIES will infect this blog. You can never have too many pictures of puppies. Or pithy quotes. Or Tom Hiddleston, especially dressed as Loki.

I'll end up writing about comic-book movies and video games. Music. Conceptual art. My favorite unicorn picture of the day. Zombies. And, ever so often, visual culture and the joys of working in academica. 

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