Author: Alex Irvine
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An Open Letter to the Fathers of Cub Scouts
Yesterday I got up at 3:45am and drove from Maine down to Massachusetts for the fifth and final Pinewood Derby of my older son Ian’s Cub Scout career. I have been saving these sentiments up since Ian’s first Derby, and this last one–combined with the irritation of having to drive back through a snowstorm–really set…
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Etymological Musing on Poe’s 203rd Birthday
As a critic in the 1830s, Edgar Allan Poe was referred to as the Tomahawk Man. I got curious about this and looked up the origins of the phrase “hatchet job.” Turns out (he said, after an entire three minutes of research) that “hatchet man,” as someone who does unpleasant tasks, dates (probably) from the…
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Avengers Alliance News Aggregate
Here, for your delectation, is a delicious stack of articles about Marvel: Avengers Alliance… …also, I’ll be glad to not hear about Tim Tebow for a while. Maybe one of these days he’ll be a good quarterback. Tonight’s despair along the Front Range might be hard to take, but Broncos fans should always remember to…
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Marvel: Avengers Alliance Trailer
http://www.springboardplatform.com/mediaplayer/springboard/video/su005/77/419559/
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Marvel: Avengers Alliance
A quick note bringing some (to me) exciting news: this USA Today article announces Marvel: Avengers Alliance, the game I’ve been writing for the last year or so. If you like social games, you’re going to love this one. And if you like Marvel, you’ll dig the story. It’s a much richer storyline than most…
Crooked House Fictions 