2010 in review………

A pat on the back…… The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers.This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2010. That’s about 11 full 747s. In 2010, there were 31 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 187 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 66mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week. The busiest day of the year was April 8th with 122 views. The most popular post that day was Drug Views. Where did they come from? The top referring sites in 2010 were mail.live.com, slashingtongue.com, healthfitnesstherapy.com, facebook.com, and en.wordpress.com. Some visitors came searching, mostly for hunab ku, jpcootes, hunab-ku, hunabku, and mayan symbols. Attractions in 2010 These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010. 1 Drug Views April 2010 2 Hunab ku ‘The Supreme God’ a Maya Deity April 2010 5 comments 3 Books April 2010 3 comments 4 Random Images…etc April 2010 2 comments 5 Carp News April 2010 1 comment

Emmaus, a good place for books………

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***** ‘There is no peace and no fullness of joy except in giving first place to serving first those who are most forgotten and those who suffer most’ ……….Abbe Pierre, 1912-2007 Emmaus, founded 60 years ago by Abbe Pierre,, is a World-wide charity and organisation that helps the homeless. The local charity that I am very familiar with is in Old Portslade, Brighton&Hove, East Sussex, and I visit there nearly every week during school term time with my young nephew Patrick, who attends a local school. The Emmaus building is on a site that used to be part of Portslade Manor House and was formerly a convent. They recycle books, paperback (30p each, or 4 for a £1,) and hardback, as well as furniture etc. and I have found many novels of interest there including ‘Mr.X‘, ‘Vernon God Little‘, and ‘Iron John‘. WELL WORTH A VISIT and a good charity to support………….EMMAUS

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Strange fishes after the 2004 Tsumani

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Fairy tales and legends, such as Dobrynya Nikitich's rescue of Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, have been an important source for fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Many works within the genre take place on fictional planes or planets where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (which are subgenres of speculative fiction). In popular culture, the genre of fantasy is dominated by its medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings books by J. R. R. Tolkien. In its broadest sense however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today. Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic study in a number of disciplines (English, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, medieval studies). Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture. ( Wikipedia…….. Link )

The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original stories about Conan the Barbarian.

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. Edwin Baird was the first editor of the monthly, assisted by Farnsworth Wright. The “sub-genre” pioneered by Weird Tales writers has come to be called weird fiction. Weird Tales

The story of a magical curse in one minute, by Stuart Jaffe for WeirdTalesMagazine.com. (Music by Eric San Juan.)

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