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Game of Groans: George RR Martin Health in Question

By John Glynn, July 18, 2014August 11, 2015

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John Glynn is an Irishman, a lover of Guinness and a
potato connoisseur. An expert in the area of mediocrity, he one day hopes to own a decent coffee maker and visit SeaWorld Orlando.

Not Exactly The Emerald City

By The Town Scryer, October 6, 2012March 9, 2021

A newly minted University graduate with a degree in music has been reduced for the nonce to playing cowbell for an unappreciative audience of birds.

Jamie Fox spends all day in a farmer’s field, dressed all in orange…

Vikings Land in Australia

By The Town Scryer, September 20, 2012November 15, 2023

Police and local rangers on Elcho Island in the Northern Territories of Australia were somewhat surprised when the received reports of a Viking longboat off shore.

“With swords drawn, it was establish…

Human-Powered Flight: The Helicopter

By The Town Scryer, September 5, 2012November 15, 2023

I don’t know what it is about human-powered flight that fascinates me so. Maybe it’s because I first heard the legend of Icarus when I was very young. I know that I am not alone in this though, else there would not be things lik…

Is It Safe?

By The Town Scryer, September 1, 2012October 11, 2017

In the nearly eleven years since the events of September eleventh 2001 the United States has embarked upon somewhere between two and seven wars, depending on how one defines one’s conflicts in this brave new wor…

Whale-Eating Sea Gulls

By The Town Scryer, August 30, 2012November 15, 2023

Sea gulls off the coast of Argentina have lately taken to taking a bite out of Southern Right Whales when they breach to take on air. This opens a wound for them to tear a few chunks of meat from before the whale submerges. The…

Not a Light, But a Place

By The Town Scryer, August 25, 2012November 15, 2023

I remember that day in July of ’69 so well. Grandmother had passed barely month before and I thought it a great pity that she had missed that moment when Mr. Armstrong first set foot upon the moon. She had told me of torchlight parades for McKi…

NASA Does a Class Act

By The Town Scryer, August 24, 2012August 21, 2019

The landing site of the Rover “Curiosity” has officially been names after the late Science Fiction author, Ray Bradbury.

The Twitter feed from Curiosity read “In tribute, I dedicate my landing spot on Mars to…

Pub For Sale, Pig Included

By The Town Scryer, August 22, 2012November 15, 2023

Be warned though, this little piggy likes a pint.

Pyangana’s Pub is on the market with an asking price of $800,000 (Au) or about $840,000 US. It come with a fair sized tract of land and the pub’s pig, Pinky. Pinky is the Progeny…

Nightmare, With Angels

By The Town Scryer, August 20, 2012November 15, 2023

Looking at the drought withered corn belt and the shrinking polar ice cap on the net while we wait to vote on GMO labeling in our food my mind keeps turning back to a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Nightmare, With Angels
by Stephen Vi…