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2022 Pigskin Pick'em link below

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Well I forgot to switch it to equal squares, but at least Tracy and Dom can see themselves clearly

2021 Pick'Em Group

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Tonight's chat!

We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen

Doja Cat - Streets

Very surprised to have found a good song on TikTok. And that Doja Cat is an actual musician. I don't know what I thought they were, but I assumed something silly, because their name is Doja Cat.

I'm in for the next one. Had to do a little shopping but I now have both a mic and a webcam, two things I haven't used since early last decade, maybe longer.

Well, thank you. I didn't do particularly well this season; wasn't even in the overall tope 10%! But, winning is winning. Look forward to doing it again next season.

Red, White and The Blues by Ryssa Walker

Warrior on HBO Max. 

System of a Down - Spiders

Wargasm - Backyard Bastards 

Forgot to add some books!

I read about 25% of Jade City before setting it aside. I never got immersed in the world or really even very excited to read it, so maybe I'll come back to it later. I assume it gets really good, or at least better, at some point considering how many people seem to love it. Anyway, on to what I have read since moving on. 

The Midnight Library and How To Stop Time by Matt Haig. The latter was good. The former was absolutely outstanding and will be a book I reread sometime in the not-so-distant future. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, which I really enjoyed. Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse was very good, a future dystopian fantasy based in Navajo Nation mythology which is a whole lotta words I didn't think of putting together until I read this book. (For anyone who may be unfamiliar, the Navajo are a Native American people whose land is in the Southwest of the country.)

As a palette cleanser, currently reading The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver before diving into something else.

Look, I don't know if anybody here still reads Terry Goodkind books. I know I don't. I find Objectivism to be the moral philosophy equivalent of saying, "Why should I have to wear a mask? I'm not sick." The ultimate in me first bullshit, for people who are unwilling to think beyond themselves. 

That being said, I would assume that most of the people here read his books at one point or another, and even liked them! They made their way online to see if other people liked them and wanted to talk about them. Turns out, we did. Fantasy Essentials (and whatever it was before, because I don't think that was the original forum name) is where, I would assume, most of us met before migrating here upon its death(s).

So while the man's beliefs make my blood boil, he did bring most of us together so many years ago, creating a group of friends and family through his books. For that, I say thank you to Terry Goodkind. I just wish I could reread your books in remembrance without wanting to set them on fire two chapters in. 

Jade City, by Fonda Lee

Got distract by ALL the sports coming back in the last month or so, but I really liked Trouble the Saints whenever I broke it open to read a chapter. Ending was excellent. 

I still despise the Patriots AND Tom Brady left. Feels much the same.

Group is restarted on ESPN. Group name The Northland Woods, password DTK

Trouble The Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson & Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman (I needed some non-fiction to make sure my brain hasn't turned to mush)

The Light Brigade was very good.  Really enjoyed it. 

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

Empire City was fine but could've been really good. It needed 50-100 more pages for world building and character development.

Empire City by Matt Gallagher

Bloody Rose was 

Bloody Rose (The Band 2) by Nicholas Eames

Kings of the Wyld, the first book in the series, was 

Ad Infinitum - See You In Hell

Just starting Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames.

The Girl and The Stars was excellent.   Really like the author, Mark Lawrence, who wrote a trilogy set in the same world (called Book of The Ancestor, a couple of which I mention in a post from March 23) that I loved and plan on reading his other fantasy books sometime in the future.

Also read Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi in the interim, which was outstanding.   Highly recommend.

The Girl and The Stars by Mark Lawrence

Queen of The Unwanted gets a