The Silver Key

"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

Friday, October 28, 2022

Iron Maiden: No compromises

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Me and Scott... and 24 oz. Miller Lite It strikes me that I haven’t reviewed nor mentioned the recent Iron Maiden show I attended last Frida...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

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The shame he felt was so strong it stopped the words in his throat. Night after night, sitting in front of Wilbarger’s tent, he had struggle...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

The Day of Might!

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I realized this day has come and largely gone, and I've yet to acknowledge it. I'm rectifying that now before the Skull reduces me t...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

A very metal week: Judas Priest/Queensryche/Iron Maiden

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Not Rob Halford sickness, nor a personal bout with COVID, could stop me from seeing the Metal Gods. I finally caught up with Judas Priest th...
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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Why bother blogging? And other personal updates

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Why? Why do I continue to keep this blog? I’ve been doing this a long time, since Sept. 2007, save for a long break circa 2013-2019 to write...
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Friday, October 14, 2022

COVID!

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I've got it, it sucks, that is all. 2 1/2 years of avoiding the 'vid and finally it got me on a business trip. Plane rides and a big...
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Friday, October 7, 2022

Blood Red Skies, Judas Priest

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Can it really be I haven't put JP in the Metal Friday rotation since December of last year? Fixing that, stat. Priest is on my mind a bi...
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Brian Murphy
Marketing professional by day; skald in the Hall of Fire by night; and member of the S.H.I.E.L.D.W.A.L.L. Author of Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press). Essayist and reviewer for numerous web and print-based fantasy and sword-and-sorcery publications, including The Cimmerian, Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, Mythprint, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Dark Man, DMR Blog, Skelos, and SFFaudio.com. Two-time Robert E. Howard Foundation award winner: The Atlantean (Outstanding Achievement/Book for Flame and Crimson) and The Venarium (emerging scholar in REH studies).
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