Confessions of an EMS Newbie

07/26/2026

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I’m Baaack Rumors of my blog’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. It’s alive. IT’S ALLIIIVE! I had thought the poor blog was dead as I forgot to renew credit card info on the DNS hosting, and by the time I renewed it the link to my blog was gone. After much incoherent hooting and screechi...

07/03/2026

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Kelly Grayson and Nancy Magee introduce their new podcast, in which they share their unfiltered views on EMS issues of today. They'll be unfiltered, blunt, and occasionally argue like an old married couple - but one thing they won't do is pull their punches.This week they discuss the sentencing of f...

09/23/2024

Overheard at P-Con SciFi-Fantasy:

H.P. Holo: “I have shenanned once, and I will shenanigan.”

That should be the motto of Dead Dog parties everywhere.

04/19/2024

New story in the Cecil the Combat Wombat universe!

Wombat Prime

Long before Sgt. Cecil Dundee and LCpl. Ian McMurtrie there was the first uplifted wombat, a warrior who clawed, fought and scratched his way up the chain of command in the Australian Army. Before he was Colonel Brian Lee Gnad, he was once a proud member of the E4 Mafia, and his skill, leadership...

01/07/2024

The name's Hardbottle, Ethan Hardbottle. I'm a hobbit and a private detective.

Normally, being a private dick in the Shire is a pretty easy gig; tracking down who filched a few spoons, rounding up the latest batch of young ruffians who raided Farmer Maggot's crop, and the like. Nothing too dangerous, not since the Battle of Bywater since I was a young lad not quite yet come of age.

But if there's one thing the Scouring of the Shire taught us, it's that evil rarely stays conquered.

It merely bides its time, waiting... and then it's on you, like an adventure you didn't see coming.

EDIT: It’s PARODY, folks. The Tolkien estate has no need to mobilize the lawyers.

11/16/2023

Winter wonderland out there. You’d think it was Alaska or something.

05/29/2023

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Memorial Day Today is Memorial Day. Normally, most of us would have spent the weekend grilling burgers and visiting with relatives, or lounging on a beach somewhere, or watching a baseball game in an opulent stadium, overpriced beer and hot dog in hand, but let’s not forget the meaning of the day....