• Okay, I know. I KNOW. It’s been waaaaay too long. Mea culpa, guilt, shame, etc etc. Let’s just say that I’ve been in more of a destructive frame of mind than a creative one. And I’ve been reading a lot of crap books that were pretty crappy but actually not crappy enough because I didn’t even hate them enough to…

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  • A sad week for anyone who ever sailed to the land of the wild things, visited the night kitchen, or went outside over there. Thank you, Maurice. You’ll be missed.

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  • ROBYN SMASH!

    Can you tell I’m excited about seeing the Avengers assemble? (Thor Odinson, how you doin?) But seriously. Today, children, we are going to talk about a book that made me angry because it was not angry enough. The book: Fury by Elizabeth Miles. Yes, it’s another YA, but I’m of the Lev Grossman school when it…

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  • APOLOGIES! God, I suck at blogging, right? WRONG. The mind-numbing mundanities of my drearily monotonous existence have conspired to keep me ridiculously preoccupied. First there was the small matter of grad school to deal with–which, by the way, I’m pleased to say is finally finished (yay, me)–and then I made the questionable decision to return to…

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  • Jerry: [crying] What is this salty discharge? Elaine: Oh, my God. You’re crying. Jerry: This is horrible! I care! (Seriously though, doesn’t watching this make the cold chunk of igneous rock that’s lodged in your chest start to feel things again? Damn. Watch it on Vimeo here) (FYI, igneous because it is the best kind of rock,…

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  • I know, I know. Too long, Robyn. Mea culpa and whatnot. So what have I been doing instead of blogging? Um, homework? Ha! As if. I managed to escape fake London for a weekend–huzzah! It was good to get back to Toronto for a reprieve. Went to the Game of Thrones exhibition at the TIFF…

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  • I have been… busy

    Robyn: Hey, Titus, what are you reading? Oh my great giddy aunt, is that… is that J.R. Ward? Damn, T… that’s just… I mean… really? Titus: LOOK AWAY! LOOK AWAY!

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  • Apologies all around for taking far too long to feed the hungry blog-monster. I’ve been busy trying to figure out computational linguistics. And also designing my She-Ra, Princess of Power, costume for when I (fingers crossed) crash Comic-Con. It will happen. Oh yes, it will happen. For the honour of Greyskull! Okay, so maybe I spent a little…

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  • Le sigh

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