Editor’s Note: Long term readers will know that we are running a series of short, comic pieces by Luke Haines which whack selfish Baby Boomers and/or Dragons (six of one). This week, we get the Ermitrude the pig, plus the Bechdel Test. “Jeeeeeeeeesus…” I winced as I sat up. I’d slept in my clothes, which…

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Editor’s Note: Luke Haines has given us a truly bizarre parody of the Tolkien books which also, somehow, takes a few shots at greedy BabyBoomers…including his loyal editor (that would be me). So, without further ado, here is episode three. It contains the obligatory titillating busty innkeeper’s daughter. Plus a pig shed. The town in…

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Editor’s Note: Luke Haines has provided us with a parodic series of short pieces saying terrible things about Baby Boomers (like his editors) and nasty, horrible warty creatures (also not like his editors). This is episode two. It was a long flight to the Lonely Mountain, but ultimately worth it. It cut out a lot…

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Editor’s Note: This week, we begin a new foray into parody. Luke Haines, our UK correspondent and editor, will give us today the first in a series of short, comic pieces that will run over the next few issues. He describes his effort with: “ A while back I wrote something in which I compared…

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There’s something to be said for monarchy. Not the kind that entails absolute power as enjoyed by the likes of Louis IV, Henry VIII, or Catherine the Great. I have in mind something rather different, something that bears greater similarity to what the Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms has today, that is,…

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