Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art by Christopher Moore

My Mother always wanted to be an Artist, and she specifically wanted to be an Impressionist.  So I grew up with prints of the works of Van Gogh, Pissaro, Cézanne, Monet, and so on.  Mom didn’t like Gauguin, maybe it had something to do with all the topless girls in grass skirts.  My personal favorite was always Seurat.  She would have loved Sacré Bleu. Christopher Moore is a fun writer.  His topics are often a bit odd, such as vampires, death dealers, and friends of Jesus who somehow missed out being in the Bible. In Sacré Bleu we find an odd…

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Absinthe & Flamethrowers

How cool is a book that gives you detailed instructions on how to make gunpowder?  Pretty damned cool. Turns out there is more to making black powder-as author William Gurstelle prefers to call his gun powder-than Captain Kirk made it look when was kicking Gorn ass with a bamboo cannon. For one thing, you need pure ingredients. William advices that you make you own charcoal, since the stuff you use in a barbeque is full of all kinds of impurities. He recommends buying the sulfur and saltpeter. Once you have made the black powder you can go on to make…

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