Book of the Week: The Drawing of the Dark.

This pick was inspired by various beer-related comments here: The Drawing of the Dark is a Secret Magical History (involving the Siege of Vienna, Western chivalric mythology, and beer) which first demonstrated that Tim Powers is really, really good at creating esoteric and mystical explanations for historical events that make perfect sense at the time; disbelief is not so much suspended in one of Powers’ works as it is chained to the floor to keep it from smashing through the ceiling and out of one’s life completely.

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Basically, it’s just that it’s never a bad idea to go read a Tim Powers novel. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Drawing of the Dark.

Ed Morrissey allows himself to see what cannot be unseen…

1970s fashion.

No, I’m not going to show you any of that, because, well, I don’t want any of those pictures on my website.  But I will link to James Lilek’s immortal Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible ’70s, because if you think that the clothes back then were bad…