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Norm's Nightcap

7/29/2021

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A Themed Drink for The Dimension Door Podcast, Season 1 Episode 19

On the one-year anniversary of the release of The Dimension Door Episode 19: "Not a Normal Episode," it's only fitting that I share the full details and instructions for the cocktail I created as an ode to Norman Crispin Gunderson. Episodes 18 and 19 were two of the most difficult episodes we have ever recorded--and two of the most emotionally challenging sessions we've shared at our game table. For Episode 18, I created a complex cocktail called The Sentinel to commemorate the events. For Episode 19, I focused on crafting a drink where every element was inspired by everyone's favorite retired ratfolk doctor: Norm.

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Elizabeth Reviews: Ever Cursed

7/27/2021

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Ever Cursed
​by Corey Ann Haydu
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Genre: YA fiction, fantasy, fairy-tale
First published: July 2020
"My beautiful princesses," Dad says when the music pauses and the food stops its endless parade through the hall. "I'm delighted to introduce the  esteemed royals of our neighboring kingdoms to my marvelous girls. Not only are they lovely and kind, we have also seen over the past five years  that they are brave. And strong. Stronger than the rest of us. So strong they are enduring the worst spell our kingdom has ever seen."
                                                  p.65


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Elizabeth Reviews: To Kill a Mockingbird

7/23/2021

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First edition book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. A dark burgundy background on which a black tree trunk and branches with pale green leaves is the cover image.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Genre: literary fiction, Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman (coming of age)
First published 1960
"We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe--some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it... But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal--there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.... A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."
         - Atticus Finch, to the jury, p.234

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The Sentinel

7/17/2021

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A Themed Drink for The Dimension Door Podcast​, Season 1 Episode 18

It has been a long while since I did a proper entry in my Dressing Up Drinks series here on Briarbook Lane, and I felt it was only fitting to revisit one of the drinks I created to commemorate an episode of the Pathfinder 1E Actual-Play podcast in which I play a part.

A little over a year ago, I created a very complex spectacle of a cocktail in honor of a very complex spectacle of an episode. Season 1 Episode 18 of The Dimension Door Podcast is one of our most memorable episodes, and I hope that the cocktail creation inspired by it is similarly memorable. You can read more about what inspired this cocktail below, or skip straight to the recipe.
image credit for background: Dremmer S's Night Vision. Text on top reads: Sentinel. Image is of a snow-covered cabin in a dark forest

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Elizabeth Reviews: Something Happened in our Town

7/9/2021

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Front Book Cover of Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice, written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard. Illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin. Text and background resemble the front page of a newspaper. On top, two children stand back-to-back: a White girl and a Black boy. The newspaper features black and white images of a police car and a man's profile.
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice

written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

Genre: Illustrated Children's Fiction (recommended for ages 4-8)

​First published 2018
After school, Emma asked her mother: "Why did the police shoot that man?"

"It was a mistake," said her mother. "I feel sad for the man and his family."

"Yes, the police thought he had a gun," said her father.

"It wasn't a mistake," said her sister, Liz. "The cops shot him because he was Black."

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