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Tag: burns night

  • Cover of Grïgnyr the Ecordian: A Retelling of The Eye of Argon, by Geoff Bottone, featuring a close-up photograph of a large emerald.

    Grïgnyr the Ecordian by Geoff Bottone

    I read Grïgnyr the Ecordian, Geoff Bottone's retelling of infamously-terrible fantasy novella The Eye of Argon. Which I hadn't read when I started, so I needed to read that first. Bottone's version is an enormous improvement... and that's an incredible achievement.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (763 words)

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 8 July, 2026
  • Image representing post: Argh! It Burns! Night 2012

    Argh! It Burns! Night 2012

    The Earthlings celebrate their second Argh! It Burns! Night, with a meal of haggis, neeps, and tatties, lots of whisky, and readings of some of the worst fanfiction imaginable.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1444 words)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 9 February, 2012
  • Image representing post: My Very Excellent Liz Just Brought Us Sixteen Pizzas

    My Very Excellent Liz Just Brought Us Sixteen Pizzas

    Dan saw in the New Year, highly intoxicated, in Macclesfield at the house of his friends Liz and Simon. There's a video and everything.

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    • posted 11 January, 2012
  • Argh, It Burns! Night

    The Earthlings celebrate Burns Night in their own special way, with readings of the worst fan fiction they could find in a competition to find the worst examples of the genre to exist anywhere.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1293 words)

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    • 7 comments
    • posted 25 January, 2011

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