“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Friday T&A: Firestarter Edition

Friday T&A: Firestarter Edition

Just a quick one from me today, lads, as it is late and I am absolutely knackered. Yesterday was leg day, and it was unusually difficult – I have no idea why, I finished up my course of antibiotics for what turned out to be a truly hideous case of strep throat...
Friday T&A: Cranking the Handle Edition

Friday T&A: Cranking the Handle Edition

Yes, I know, I’m a day late with this one, but I have been spectacularly unmotivated to write for a few days. It took me a while to get around to posting that long one about how one Jacob Dreizin has so thoroughly misunderstood the origins of the Christian...
Friday T&A: Plaguebearer of Nurgle Edition

Friday T&A: Plaguebearer of Nurgle Edition

This past week has been both quiet and rather miserable for me, because, as I may have mentioned a few times, I’ve been quite ill. I came down with something last Wednesday, after a long period of intense travelling and fairly high stress – though most of...
Friday T&A: День Гнева Edition

Friday T&A: День Гнева Edition

A year has passed since, depending on how you look at things, Russia invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked war of aggression to slaughter innocent people – or, launched a preemptive war of self-defence designed to liberate and secure ethnic Russians in Donbass, and...
Friday T&A: Upside Down World Edition

Friday T&A: Upside Down World Edition

Times like these make us miss the more normal and sensible world that, at some point in the past 20 years or so, rolled over and died. Right now, we are living so deep in Upside Down World – or, as we have come to call it, “Clown World” – that...
Friday T&A: Timekeeping Edition

Friday T&A: Timekeeping Edition

Once again, a combination of business and personal travel has kept posting to a very bare minimum, and has once again resulted in significant delays to otherwise regular editions of the site. I have not had much time to keep up with events, beyond what you see in my...
Friday T&A: Plunder and Pillage Edition

Friday T&A: Plunder and Pillage Edition

When you find yourself in an historical place – as I often do – it is useful to look at the events which shaped the area and understand just how much the world has changed since that time. In the north of PommieBastardLande is a place called York, which...
Friday T&A: Balkanisation Edition

Friday T&A: Balkanisation Edition

OK, first things first – I know this one is late, again. Can’t be helped – I’ve been travelling all week, and I assure you, it has been a very busy time. As the headline above indicates, I have spent quite a bit of time in the Balkans –...
Friday T&A: Black Diamond Edition

Friday T&A: Black Diamond Edition

First off, I know this post is late – unusually so, given the near-clockwork routine of these posts and the way in which we try to keep everyone cheerful on a Friday. However, I am busy enjoying myself on a vacation – a fairly hectic one, as it happens...
Friday T&A: Jason’s Birthday Edition

Friday T&A: Jason’s Birthday Edition

I never did quite understand the point of the Jason film series, because apparently the concept revolves around one Jason Voorhees, whose birthday is on Friday the 13th. The problem, of course, is that Friday the 13th happens in a different month every year –...