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29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936

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Happy 137th Birthday G.K. Chesterton!! :)   High in the wreck I held the cup, I clutched my rusty sword, I cocked my tattered feather To the glory of the Lord. Not undone were the heaven and earth, This hollow world thrown up, Before one man had stood up straight, And drained it like a cup.  

The line between fantasy and reality is a thin one.

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Many years ago, when I was a tiny pipsqueak of a child, I played make-believe all the time.  As I grew to be a little bigger, my worlds of make-believe didn't so much dwindle as become more complex and sophisticated.  By the time I was a teenager, I put dress-up behind me with childish things, but fantasy was still alive and well.  In fact, fantasy worlds and egos are a rather integral part of my person and occasionally this is expressed in overt ways - playing Cowboys and Indians with my friends in Georgia, or Puck running around clear as day, for example.  But for as real as fantasy is, it has never wandered into the realm of Reality... until one day two years and seven odd weeks (give or take a handful of days) ago when I was invited into Someones Else's world of make-believe and dress-up, and found out that it was actually a different dimension of Real Life. When I was little, my friends and I were always going on adventures, exploring, digging to China, building things,

Music Tames the Wild Beast

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So why not the God of Thunder? Meaghan, I know you asked for Daniel Craig.... but he's just a man in a suit. Why have him when you could have younger, hotter, and immortal?