The Bearded Goose

All of us in the Gaggle enjoy reading together. When a great book is involved, it makes it even more fun.

My review of the Atrocity Archives, written by Charles Stross and narrated by Gideon Emery.

For Valentine’s Day this year, I surprised my wife1 with a date to the The Loretta Paganini School of Cooking Valentine’s Dinner for Two.2 Sabra and I had always been very curious about the classes and events offered by the school, a local Chesterland establishment, and we both were very much looking forward to the [...]

How do you follow-up a story like the last one? Seriously! I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around it. Why? For the first time, I broke 100 visitors on my site in one day! Now, that may seem like small peanuts to, well, everyone. But for me, for my personal blog site, that’s a [...]

Our story begins on the morning of Sunday, January 31. As I recall, it was a fairly nice looking day outside, despite the snow covering the grass outside our window. I glanced at the clock and realized that I had better get out of bed and get ready for church or we would be late [...]

Sherlock Holmes (2009) Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Mark Strong. Directing: Guy Ritchie At A Glance: In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, Sherlock Holmes sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary [...]

A new year has come, and over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering 2009. And I’ve come to one simple conclusion… 2009 was a year of relative stagnation for The Bearded Goose. I feel that I’ve accomplished very little, and I haven’t really progressed or grown over the course of those last twelve months. [...]

Well… we’ve reached, and passed, the halfway mark through this surprisingly warm month of November in the year of 2009. And while much has been accomplished already, very little of it is related to the activities I thought I’d try my hand at. As a reminder, you can always head back to the post I [...]

Those who know me know that I have a rather extensive game collection, both board/card games as well as roleplaying games. An entire wall in my basement is devoted to this hobby of mine, and I wish there were more time in any given week to play more of these objects of cardboard and wood. [...]

The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines Published by DAW (January 6, 2009) ISBN-10: 0756405327 ISBN-13: 978-0756405328 At A Glance: What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie’s Angels? What’s delivered is The Stepsister Scheme—a [...]