James Dau

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A book cover portraying an alien UFO hovering above Stonehenge. The title reads Extraterrestrial Engineering: The Alien Origins of Stonehenge: An intergalactic archaeology approach. The author's name is April Fools.

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming publication Extraterrestrial Engineering: The Alien Origins of Stonehenge! This ground-breaking volume provides new intergalactic evidence proving Stonehenge is a UFO landing pad. 👽🏺

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Nobody can trick me into thinking Endgame is Bad, Actually™️, I was there in the theater, I know how ballistic everybody went for that climax. Same goes for Rogue One and Scarif. They definitely rank up there with other genre classics.

It’s a stressful job even when you’re barely doing it, ya know?

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Accipitrine [ak-SIP-ih-trahyn]
(adj.)
- Of, resembling, relating or belonging to the hawk family.
- Raptorial; like or related to the birds of prey.

Used in a sentence:
“His rapacity, in conjunction with his dubious ethics and accipitrine acumen, make him a rather formidable opponent.”

The cover of “The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book: A Collection of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes Cartoons” by Bill Watterson.

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(12/20)

Winter. It’s the best.

The cover of “Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron” by Michael A. Stackpole.

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(11/20)

I think ‘Crusher’ is aged Traveler Wesley Crusher, wearing the last Starfleet uniform he ever wore - at Riker and Troi’s wedding in Nemesis.

The cover of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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(11/20)

The cover of “Klaus” by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora.

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(10/20)

The cover of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne.

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(9/20)

Even “not existing” wouldn’t satisfy them, they’d just find new groups of undesirables. It’s the same chunk of the population that used to hate the Irish and Italians.

The cover of “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad.

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(8/20)

The cover of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories” by Washington Irving.

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(7/20)

Cover of “The Poetic Edda” translated by Carolyn Larrington.

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(6/20)

The cover of “American Gods, Tenth Anniversary Edition” by Neil Gaiman.

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(5/20)

The cover of “Redwall” by Brian Jacques.

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(4/20)

“I felt I was incomprehensibly in radical opposition to all my friends, that my views of matters were taking me more and more into isolation, although I was and remained in the closest personal relationship with these men – and all that made me anxious, made me uncertain. . . . and I saw no reason why I should see things more correctly, better than so many able and good pastors, to whom I looked up –and so I thought that it was probably time to go into the wilderness for a while.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letter to Karl Barth, October 1933

The cover of “The Silmarillion” by J.R.R. Tolkien.

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(3/20)

The cover of “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by Stephen King

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(2/20)

Cover image of “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White.

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Phasmophobia [FAZ-muh-FOH-bee-uh]
(n.)
-An intense, persistent, irrational fear of ghosts & incorporeal phantasms

"His phasmophobia was the one thing keeping him from a successful, if somewhat unremunerative career as the nightwatchman at the county morgue.”

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I have never seen a better juxtaposition of headline and lede in my life

October often has me wishing I was back in Massachusetts.