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The Scratching Post: What Comes After the Minotaur?
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
- Category: The Scratching Post
Finishing a book is supposed to create a sense of closure.
After spending years writing, revising, correcting, formatting, and finally publishing Call of the Minotaur, I expected to feel as though I had reached the end of a very long road. In some ways, I did. The book was finally out of my hands and available to readers, which still feels a little surreal after living with the story for so long.
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The Funny Newz: Tech Millionaire Opens Gentrifried Chicken Concept
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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WILLIAMSBURG, N.Y. — Describing it as both a “personal calling” and “an enormous untapped market,” technology entrepreneur Preston Vale announced Monday that he is combating gentrification in Williamsburg with a new chain of luxury restaurants called Gentrifried Chicken.
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Cool Filmz: Disclosure Day Review — Spielberg Looks Back at the Sky
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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What did this movie feel like to a guy who writes Pittsburgh-rooted sci-fi thrillers about hidden history, alien power, secret technology, and whether humanity can handle the truth?
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TechGnosis: NASA Is Learning How to Cook Oxygen Out of Moon Dirt
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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There are certain scientific headlines that sound less like news and more like something recovered from a classified briefing folder.
NASA is working on ways to extract oxygen from Moon dirt.
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Bingham's Notebook: Magic Eyes Only—Malcolm's Coin
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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MAGIC EYES ONLY
Filed Under: Artifacts, Evium Technology, Majestic Twelve, Psychological Warfare
Related Figures: Dr. Malcolm Kane, Mortimer Vanterpool, Project Sovereign Eagle
First Major Appearance:Call of the Minotaur: The Midas Files — Book Two
Spoiler Advisory: This entry contains lore details connected to Call of the Minotaur.
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The Scratching Post: I Finished Call of the Minotaur. Now What?
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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After publishing Call of the Minotaur, I found myself in a strange place.
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Cool Filmz: I am watching Star Wars in Machete Order and It Changes Everything
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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I still remember sitting in a dark movie theater in the summer of 1977, clutching my popcorn as the words “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” appeared on the screen.
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Funny Newz: Did Stonehenge Suffer A Y0K Problem?
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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SALISBURY, ENGLAND — World-renowned scientist Dr. Frederick Diffendorfer of the Archaeological Institute for the Preservation of Pedantic Study plans to publish a groundbreaking paper this summer on Stonehenge, shortly after resolving what his legal team continues to call “an unfortunate plagiarism misunderstanding.”
The Funny Newz: Space Aliens Buying Up U.S. Beachfront Property — Officials Say Everything Is Fine
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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CLEARWATER, FLORIDA — Interstellar aliens are rapidly buying up U.S. real estate and business holdings at what critics are calling an alarming rate, The Funny Newz has learned.
The Funny Newz: Mojave Officials Crack Down on Cheap Alien Monuments
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MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA — Adrian Covarrubias of the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation and Development Council was rattling across the desert Thursday in a government-leased Jeep Commander when he spotted yet another suspicious alien artifact on the distant horizon.
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The Funny Newz: Chattering Teeth Robot Wins $1 Billion Defense Contract
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA — Dr. Emilio Disaronno, a one-armed senior robotics researcher at the Virginia Polytechnic School of Robotics, says the 2024 International Robotics Competition was rigged after a novelty chattering-teeth robot beat his highly advanced killing machine for a major defense contract.
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CoolFilmz: Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie? Yes—It's Home Alone for Grownups
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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“Ho. Ho. Ho. Now I have a machine gun.”
That is not exactly the kind of line you expect from a cozy holiday classic. It is not Bing Crosby by the fireplace. It is not Jimmy Stewart rediscovering the meaning of life in Bedford Falls. It is Hans Gruber reading a message scrawled on the body of one of his henchmen after John McClane has officially begun ruining the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party.
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- Tech Gnosis: Boeing’s Starliner Returned Without Its Crew. What Does That Mean for NASA?
- Cool Filmz: Terminator 2: Judgment Day — An Action Sci-Fi Ace
- Bingham's Notebook: Building the Caves of Baghdad
- The Funny Newz: Space SUVs Here - 2024 "Abductors" Sighted
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