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JAWS - You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat For The Hero’s Journey

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

JAWS
You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat For The Hero’s Journey

A while back I was participating in a Friday night con panel discussing the differences between a fairy tale and folklore and defining the classical Hero’s Journey. The next day someone thanked me for my explanation of the Hero’s Journey, noting how simply I broke it down. Cooler yet, over the next day and half about a dozen more folks flagged me down to say the same. Humbly inspired by such praise, I decided to blog it up and share it with you here.
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Tags : Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Steven Spielberg

A Modern Translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

A Modern Translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”
By Theresa Bane

edgar allan poe

A while back I did a line-by-line transliteration of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1845). Taking each line of the poem I explained what the author was saying or what he meant while maintaining the pentameter and rhyme scheme. The finished project was well received and frequently commented upon. So, like all authors I thought I would revisit the idea and try it again but this time with a different one of Poe’s poems, the beautiful “Annabel Lee.”
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The Choices in Changes

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Monday, June 7th, 2010

The Choices of “Changes”

Normally, I do not do book reviews. This blog continues my career of not doing book reviews because I have no intention of reviewing “Changes,” which, by the way was totally awesome. If you have not yet read Jim Butcher’s newest installment in the “Dresden Files”, “Changes” and plan to, stop reading at the end of this sentence, as the very next sentence is likely to contain what some would call “spoilers.” Well, maybe not the very next, but to be certain, in order to properly talk about what the hell happened in “Changes” it is impossible to do so unless at least one of these so-called spoilers are discussed. Read More→

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Tags : changes book review, harry dresden, Jim Butcher, the dresden files

mmmmm …Hugh Laurie

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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

mmmmmmmm …Hugh Laurie
by Theresa Bane
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He drives a motorcycle. He plays both the piano and the guitar. And sings. His eyes are a clear and sharp blue. He’s British with an amazing accent. He’s a published author of two books. A tall guy, around 6’2″. An athlete. An award winning actor and comedian. What’s not to love about James Hugh Calum Laurie, better known to the rest of us as Hugh Laurie.
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Tags : house, house m.d., house tv show, hugh laurie

There are no Muggles in the Dresden-Verse

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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

There are no Muggles in the Dresden-verse
by Theresa Bane

I know “muggles” is Harry Potter speak, but honestly, is there a better word for the folks that live in a magical world that do not have magical powers or abilities? “Woefully mundane?” “Normals?” “White bread?” “Vanilla?” “Red shirts?” In JK Rowland’s “magical world of Harry Potter” folks who are not magically inclined really are at a severe disadvantage, and quite frankly, a liability at best. They offer nothing to the world except as a symbol of ignorance, things to be rescued or saved or worked around, and that is only IF they are mentioned. The most prominent muggles in the Potter books are Vernon and Petunia Dursley, and look at them - ugly, pathetic, small-minded-self-serving cruel individuals who are raising a child to be even more hateful than them. The Dursley family represents everything that is the worst in mankind.
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Tags : harry dresden, Jim Butcher, the dresden files

Tavi & The Lord Raglan scale (The Codex Alera)

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Monday, March 8th, 2010

Tavi and Lord Raglan’s scale
by Theresa Bane

Jim Butcher is, as we all know, the bestselling author of “The Dresden Files,” a series of books where urban fantasy meets crime noir. We all know and love the main character, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only openly practicing wizard slash private eye. But how many of us have read Butcher’s other series, “The Codex Alera,” which I would characterize as military fantasy with a dash of fantasy horror. In the seven book series we first meet Tavi of Calderon, a boy who grows into the man that his nation needs him to be in their most desperate hour.
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Tags : Jim Butcher, tavi, the codex alera

mmmmm … Ian Somerhalder

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Monday, March 1st, 2010

mmmmm…Ian Somerhalder
by Theresa Bane

The Vampire Diaries, vampries, LJ Smith I don’t watch too much TV, but being a professional vampirologist there are some shows that I must watch as part of my basic job requirement. When the CW announced that they were putting out a show called “Vampire Diaries” I knew that I was going to have to watch it, and I did. I was visiting my dad on the night it premiered and with a very little bit of prodding he let himself be tricked into watching it with me. In truth I think he was planning on watching it anyway.
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Tags : CW The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder, Vampire Diariaes

The White Council: aka - the Devil you know

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Monday, February 15th, 2010

The White Council of The Dresden Files
aka - the Devil you know
By Theresa Bane

There is an obscure Medieval Latin noun that is used by J.R.R. Tolkien Folks (big surprise there, I know) to describe his collection and usage of other people’s legends as his own, and that word is legendarium. It was a word that was originally used to describe the collective lives of the Christian Saints, but, like so many things misused this poor little word has been dug up from its grave, reanimated, and applied to refer to the council of elves and wizards in Middle Earth that contested the growing power of some castle fortress instigated by that singing elf chick (Galadriel) with more aliases than Shaun John Combs, alias “Diddy,” alias “P. Diddy,” alias “Puff Daddy,” alias “Puffy,” alias “Puff,” alias “Daddy.” Read More→