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Comment Contest–It’s On!

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Never let it be said a quokka backed away from a challenge!

We are shooting for 80,000 comments on this blog, and we currently have a few more than 78,500. Only 1,500 to go!

Byron the Quokka here, launching our latest comment contest. Whoever posts No. 80,000 will win an autographed book or this cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”

Back in December, it would’ve taken just two weeks to run up 1,500 comments. Well, Big Tech has put a stop to that.

But imagine how amazed and disappointed, how emotionally crushed they’ll be, if they see that level of readership returning to this blog. They’ll wish their mothers never met their fathers.

So come on, sound off! All comments are eligible except for abuse of fellow readers, f-bombs, or stuff that’s just too stupid to publish. Otherwise, anything goes!

I’m Stuck! Please Send Comments

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I had just fallen into a doze last night when my wife, reading my new book, The Wind from Heaven, woke me to ask, “What the dickens is this?” She’d just read the scene in which Ysbott the Snake espies a Tanystropheus fishing (as it were) in a little pond in the depths of Lintum Forest. She read back to me my description of the creature, which I must say accords very well with the picture, above. But what could I say but, “That’s a Tanystropheus”?

Ordinarily that would have inspired me to greater literary efforts. But I’m afraid writing about Sicilian caecilians today used up something vital in my brain… and now I’m stuck. Can’t think of anything else to write about, even though I’m a good 50 views behind where I ought to be at this time of day.

In short, I need assistance from my readers. Comments, suggestions, urgent pleas for more information, light-hearted observations about this or that–I need ’em all. Because I’m stuck. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does… not even a Tanystropheus can help me.

Waiting to hear from you–

Hymn Contest Winner!

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Before the whole thing turns into “What hymn contest? What’s he talking about?”, let me announce the winner of the contest. Drum roll, please.

On July 28, Ina requested I Saw the Light, by Johnny Cash, which received 21 views that day. The prize is–well, she already has the new book, The Wind from Heaven, but there’s still the cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”

Ina, please let me know which prize you’d like to receive, and send me your mailing address.

Note: Just because the contest is over doesn’t mean we’re going to stop posting hymns and taking hymn requests. We’d love to post yours!

Hymn Contest Closes Tomorrow

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Good grief! It’s already August 7, which means tomorrow Patty and I celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary.

And it’s also the day we close the hymn contest. So if you’re going to enter, do it now.

It’s easy–just request a hymn. The hymn that gets the most views on the day it was requested wins the contest; the reader who suggested it wins either an autographed copy of one of my books or this cool red T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”

So far the leading hymn has 21 views/votes.

How Leftids Tried to Sink ‘Bell Mountain’: Part III

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Well, now you know how to get an unfair, dishonest, non-review removed from amazon.com’s customer reviews page.

I was gratified when it took readers only a day to get amazon to delete the personal attack against me, disguised as a review of my book.

Ta-dah! Thank You, Readers

Remember: they’re always looking to stifle us. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” is no exaggeration.

Having said all this, I would like to re-assert my firm conviction that to burden a fantasy world with junk from the, ahem, real world is very bad fantasy. I mean, if the Elf turns to the Dwarf and says, “We must learn to celebrate diverse lifestyles,” that is lousy, rotten, unforgivable, stupid, howlingly awful fantasy.

And I take great care never to do it!

How Leftids Tried to Sink ‘Bell Mountain,’ Part II

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Some of you have asked to see the rest of the story today, not tomorrow–so why not? If nothing else, it reminds us what we’re up against.

Please bear in mind that my Bell Mountain novels are fantasies having nothing, but nothing, to do with political issues and controversies in our own world. Leftids wanted my novels sabotaged not for what they said, but for what I said elsewhere. They wanted me punished for criticizing Obama.

Reader Help Requested!

Their solution, they hoped, was to post one-star reviews of Bell Mountain on amazon.com to try to damage its sales.

This post has 20 comments attached: I appealed to my readers for help, and they began to try to see what they could do about it.

Part III coming right up.

Ducking the Nooze

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Y’know what? I don’t think I want to hear any nooze today. I’d like to follow the example of Judah the Maccabee, who never fought on the Sabbath unless he and his men were physically attacked and obliged to defend themselves.

Anyhow, there’ll be a fresh crop o’ crap tomorrow. For one day of the week we can live as if the world were clean and sane. We believe our God will cleanse it and heal it, in His time.

Moving on, what about that picture?

Okay–try to identify what kind of bug that is, and say whether or not the person whose hand it’s resting on has anything to worry about. Don’t look it up–try to work it out via pure observation and deduction, like Sherlock Holmes.

And now I have to go and see if there’s a new chapter of Oy, Rodney available.

Special Treat: Heidi’s Cute Bug

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Heidi sent us this picture of a cute little fluffy aphid she found in her garden. Great close-up technique! It’s a benign little face–and I think that bug was waving to her.

Yeah, I know, aphids are plant pests–but we can all afford to be a little sweet and sappy now and then, can’t we?

God’s stuff is the best.

Don’t Forget the Hymn Contest

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I’m sorry to report no hymn requests today so far, no entries into our ongoing hymn contest. Well, these things always slow up after the initial excitement.

A few of you wind up requesting the most hymns–by far the most. I was hoping more of you would join the party! That’s not to discourage readers who make a lot of hymn requests: it’s to encourage you who never make any.

And now we’ve got another thunderstorm looming, and if I want a cigar I’d better go out and have it now.

It’s perfectly okay to make hymn requests while I’m not here!

Important P.S.! I want to showcase posts from other Christian blogs–because, in this climate of growing censorship, I think we must support each other. If you’re a Christian blogger who’d like to see your work displayed here from time to time, please just let me know! There’s no charge for it.

Let the Hymn Contest Begin! (First Entry: ‘Adonai’)

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Okay, as of now, the hymn contest is up and running. Erlene requested this hymn yesterday–Adonai by Paul Wilbur–so I’m putting it in this morning as our first entry.

The contest will run till August 8 (our wedding anniversary).

The winner will be whoever requests the hymn that winds up getting the most views on the day it was requested. So you see we could have a new leader every day. If this rule isn’t clear, please let me know and I’ll try to explain it.

The winner will get either an autographed copy of one of my books or a cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost”–your choice.

This will work just like our annual Christmas carol contest, only it’s starting in July so you don’t need a scarf and mittens.