Category Archives: What Nots

What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters

Posted on 19th September 2024 by Diverse Voices

Every good fiddler has a distinctive sound. No matter how many play the same tune, each can’t help but play it differently. Some might use an up stroke where another would a down. One might bow a series of quick … Continue reading →

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Gareth Hanrahan’s The One Ring: Tales from the Lone-lands

Posted on 13th December 2023 by Warner Holme

The One Ring: Tales From the Lone-lands is a supplement to The One Ring role-playing game. Set in one of the less familiar regions of Middle-earth, in this case Erador, it provides rich new details and concepts for use there. … Continue reading →

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The One Ring: Ruins of the Lost Realm

Posted on 19th March 2023 by Warner Holme

The One Ring: Ruins of Lost Realm is an expansion resource book for the roleplaying game. It is also interesting due to its status as an example of Middle Earth spreading beyond the material written for it by J. R. … Continue reading →

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Christian Sahlen & Johan Nohr’s Cy_Borg

Posted on 9th February 2023 by Warner Holme

Christian Sahlen & Johan Nohr’s Cy_Borg is sold as a reskin of the previous Mörk Borg. Well this is technically true karma and aesthetically true to the extent they both very much bring to mind a rough you occasionally disturbing … Continue reading →

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Folkmanis’s The Fiddler

Posted on 5th January 2023 by Cat Eldridge

Come in, have a seat on the window seat … One moment while I turn down the music I’m listening to. Yes, ’tis indeed the new album, Old Oaks, from Excalibur Rising, our fey punk folk band. With a fanatical … Continue reading →

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The One Ring role playing game, Second Edition

Posted on 12th November 2022 by Warner Holme

The One Ring Role-playing in the world of The Lord of the Rings is an impressive and well built volume, featuring a nice mix of rules, lore, and art. Given the venerable nature of the world it is attached to, … Continue reading →

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Folkmanis’s Blue Dragon, Green Dragon, Three Headed Dragon, and Phoenix

Posted on 1st March 2022 by Mia

Oooooh, shiny! I have a box of dragons here! Folkmanis makes the best puppets ever, and their dragons are some of the finest of their puppets. The first to slither out of the box is the Blue Dragon. At 13 inches … Continue reading →

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ZBS Media: four top picks

Posted on 18th February 2022 by Jennifer Stevenson

ZBS Media has been around since the 1970s, but I became aware of them in the 80s, when my spiritual advisor, Mindy the Pagan Hairdresser, lent me cassettes of The Forth Tower of Inverness and Moon Over Morocco.  This year, … Continue reading →

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Folkmanis’s Mouse with Vest

Posted on 30th January 2022 by Cat Eldridge

I am here today to speak of Rodents of an Unusual Size. No, not the ones that the hero battles in the Swamp in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, but rather the far more adorable ones that came in recently … Continue reading →

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Folkmanis: Four Finger Puppets

Posted on 21st December 2021 by Robert

A group of Folkmanis finger puppets appeared on my desk recently. These came without the usual tags — they are all quite small — so I did a bit or research on them. Here they are, in no articular otder. … Continue reading →

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