If you haven’t already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 3 first. Editor’s note: This is an ongoing story, and sometimes I will probably change my mind about something that has already been posted. In Part 3, I introduced Trevor Deathpriest and Lorenzo Deathpriest. By the time I [...]
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An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 4
Published by November 23rd, 2011 in The Secret Life Of Murray and Wisdom City. 0 Comments
I’d like to watch a television show called The Murray Files, where Murray investigates the paranormal and alien abductions and why people watch Jersey Shore and Celebrity Apprentice and inexplicable things like that. He will be assisted by an attractive intellectual female type person and there will be sexual chemistry despite what the restraining orders [...]
An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 3
Published by November 9th, 2011 in The Secret Life Of Murray and Wisdom City. 1 CommentIf you haven’t read it already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 2 The band of Adventurers were nonplussed. “I’m kind of used to riddles being inscribed above the magic doors of castles and caves and whatnot,” said Borgus to the others. “Usually, you solve the riddle and [...]
Every time I come to Tassie I’m reminded of the fact that Tasmanians have stolen the most beautiful State from the rest of Australia and it’s time we demanded it back. I’m sitting on the back deck of a house in West Hobart, looking out across the city to the Derwent River. This view is [...]
An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 2
Published by October 26th, 2011 in The Secret Life Of Murray and Wisdom City. 0 CommentsIf you haven’t read it already, you might like to start at An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 1 48 games of rock, paper, scissors, sorcery, political assassination later (it’s hard to beat political assassination) and Gort stepped out onto the causeway. Had the band of adventurers chosen to use commonsense instead of [...]
An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 1
Published by October 23rd, 2011 in The Secret Life Of Murray and Wisdom City. 0 CommentsNurl looked up from his worn copy of Snard’s Guide To Evil Architecture with a thoughtful expression on his pointlessly handsome face. “Anything?” asked Borgus Rennan, 13th Level Mage, who had dismounted from his mighty steed and had spent the last 20 minutes tinkering with its throttle. “Nothing much,” said Nurl. “It’s apparently a Level [...]
How many times have you seen this plot device turn up in a movie? The heroes have to get through a locked door, or across a courtyard, or into the back of a van, but they can’t. All is very much about to be lost; and then, out of nowhere, some nameless character just doing [...]
Two things that make me happy
Published by December 12th, 2009 in The Secret Life Of Murray. 2 CommentsI admit it. I’m a fan of The Drew Carey Show. It’s one of the few things on television that will predictably make me laugh, even when I’m not really in the mood to laugh. In particular, I always get a kick from the show’s musical dance numbers, and so I present two of them [...]
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