7) Michael Moorcock deserves a statue.

Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.

73) Representation in Sword & Sorcery should be more than token.

Charles R. Saunders famously wrote in his essay about racism in fantasy that people didn't want Black hobbits - they did not want token representation, but for representation that worked within the context of the setting & story.

I think the mutual incrimination, or potential mutual incrimination, is part of the kick. Reinforcing membership in the "special club."

I think people forget that papers used to run ads, and you'd flip past them, but where they showed things you'd buy, you enjoyed looking at them. Ads online load in aggressive, intrusive, manipulative ways, and hijack what you're reading. There's so much room for improvement.

Health, science & environment editor here volunteering for duty.

Write your damn book, Boy Scout. Some of us have jacuzzis to sit in.

It’s a money guy… I think he’s trying start a tax panic or something. Get some headlines.