The envelope, please.

And the winner is...

I still can't figure out whether the characters are painted or Photoshopped.

Two Orient Express Explorers (remember them?) reviews:

Short review of Mortal by Benman.

Short review of Twilight's Forfeit by Fiddlebottoms, hat tip to Amit.

[Summary, maybe:
1. Anything that wasn't hard to create isn't art.
2. An article in the Atlantic Monthly warned that stories shouldn't be "about" anything. That's why their stories suck.
]

ADDED: This post is hopelessly muddled, and you should probably avoid it.

I don’t know a lot about competing in the Olympics. I’m not good at figure skating, fencing, diving, basketball, or curling. But I have a rule of thumb that I nonetheless expect works for all Olympic sports:

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You may have read my earlier blog post, Writing to not be disliked, where I said that because most down-votes seem to come from people who have some random bug up their ass rather than people who have a valid reason for disliking a story, the best thing to do to get good ratings is to write something safe and inoffensive.

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Saw this on Ask Princess Molestia and it was too cute not to share with someone. John Joseco will have a full-color version at EQLA.

From the book jacket:

Release date: September 2, 2008

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I know legal considerations make this game about as likely to be made as "Twenty Minutes" is likely to become a show episode, but this simple basic concept from Dresden Codak author Aaron Diaz is the best idea I've heard of for a Zelda game.

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Some of my stories are collections of shorts (Sisters, DDKRN, Pony Tales) or could be extended (Mortality Report). A lot of people have asked if I'm writing more, but they rarely bring ideas to the table. Maybe because I haven't said it's okay to do that?

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"Moving On" has 1904 views right now—enough for me, but not many for something that was in the feature box and on Equestria Daily. It seems to mean a lot to a small number of people. Per view, it has a lot of thumbs-up and a lot of favorites—almost twice as many as "Fluttershy's Night Out" with 7812 views.

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In my earlier post How to Lose, I wrote about my plans to buy an old used Jaguar,

and how my family said I should get a nice Nissan Sentra instead.

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