Category: Ravings
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Poe’s Death Day: OCT 7, 1849, What Happened?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22525 – 859 Here’s the haps: January 19, 1809 – Oct 7, 1849, 40 years old. He wrote approximately seventy stories, sixty-nine poems and I don’t know how many non-fiction articles about writing and literary criticism. Many of you know that I am something like a fan of…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: K Is For Khaki Campbell Duck Eggs = Yummy To Da Tummy!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22348 – 813: Here’s the haps: Many of you who are regular readers of this blog are familiar with my son’s blog, Brother’s Campfire, in fact, some of you came to me because you read him. He writes fiction stories in installments. His current one is Steampunk and…
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They’re All Over The Place
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22175 – 745: Ubiquitous is one of my favorite words, but alas, unlike that overused, misused, and abused adjective, “awesome,” ubiquitous is not found commonly used by a lot of people yet. This is a shame. It is a good, fun word with a solid meaning. I…
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Award Winning Wednesday – Petra at Erratic Engineeress
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Again, this week’s selection was difficult to make. I read a lot of cool blogs of a wide variety of genres, none of whom need an award from me for validation and my criteria for choosing a blog for this award are pretty random. It’s just one that I follow…
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Bonus Post – The Other Side Of Law Enforcement
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I read a news aggregator called Complete Colorado. It is similar in style to that of the Drudge Report but is just Colorado. I haven’t written much lately about current events but when I read this story I thought it really gives a good insight into the day-to-day routine life…
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Art? I Don't Know Nuttin'
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I think this is the last of the Mystery Blogger Award questions I will answer. It has been fun to use them as writing prompts and, as anyone who knows much about me at all knows, I love to create puns. I love to read puns. I even love it…
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Interrobang‽‽
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 21839: Ah, that much maligned, hated on, non-punctuation mark, the combined exclamation point and question mark, the interrobang. One of my favorite marks of punctuation, it is not accepted as standard. “What?!” You may exclaim wonderingly, but, much to your dismay and chagrin, there is not a punctuation…
