Wings upraised and poised for flight, a sinuous dragon steps out of the pages of legend in this luminous glass figurine. Chunky freeform styling gives this dramatic focus piece the appearance of a slab of pure ice! Carved glass. 4 3/8″ x 1 1/4″ x 4 5/8″ high. ………..Outstanding Customer Service !!!

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I’ve never, in all my years, seen one sparkle.

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Praise for Dealing with Dragons, the first volume of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles:”What a charmer! A decidedly diverting novel with plenty of action and . . . laugh-out-loud reading pleasure.”–Booklist (starred review)”Full of excitement . . . and good humor. Wrede’s delightful voice is all her own.”–School Library Journal (starred review)

Collected together for the first time are Patricia C. Wrede’s hilarious adventure stories about Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper. Every one of Cimorene’s adventures is included in its paperback edition–Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons–in one handsome package that’s perfect for gift giving.

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So far, we’ve got an idiot guard who thinks he’s a hell of a lot more important than he really is, an obnoxious magpie, and a smokin’ hot mysterious woman. What could happen next?

Read a bit about Barend, the world where everything’s going down:

Barend could be described as a quaint, out-of-the-way kingdom with cozy cottages and impressive antique architecture. But that’s only if the person describing it was being paid by a travel agency really intent on going bankrupt after a class action lawsuit over misleading advertising.

What Barend really is has to be considered closely. To the people who live there, eeking out an existence, or trodding upon the eekers to create a much more fabulous existence, Barend is home. And home, no matter how horrid, holds a certain place in a person’s heart. Many of the citizens of Barend are fiercely loyal to it. Many of the citizens of Barend have never been anywhere else and cannot even read.

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They are known as the Little People, the Beautiful Maidens, the Godmothers, the Blessed, the Ageless Ones…for it is dangerous to say the name “faeries” without good reason. Ruling over earth, air, fire, and water, they protect forests, animals, and children, and in their hands lie the dreamy souls of all creatures. The faeries rose from the mist long, long ago, in the time of the Golden Age — well before the creation of gods and men. In their magical fancy they created the singin (more…)

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“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” is a collection of five wizard fairy tales written by J. K. Rowling. It will be auctioned off and all royalties for the work will go to a charity for institutionalized children.

That’s awesome.

And, being a dragon, I can’t exactly go to the theater with Melanie, so I wait and see all the new movies when they come out on DVD. I caught “I Am Legend” with Will Smith the other night and I have a question.

Why do zombies always look like a mixture between the Mummy in The Mummy and the heads that scream out of the wall in Pink Floyd’s The Wall? I mean… freaky and all that, but why can’t some have hair, or green skin, or moss hanging off them, or something!

Michael Jackson, freak though he is, knew how to do a good zombie.

Need to do more research…. maybe over at All Thing Zombie.

A slender serpent spreads his wings, shaking his golden horns at the sky; a formidable guard indeed for a sacred crystal sword! Glorious ruby, bronze and amethyst glass is a striking complement to fiercely gleaming fangs and crest. A fairy-tale figurine of awe-inspiring beauty! Glass with mirrored base. 3″ diameter x 4 1/8″ high.

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As much as we can wax poetic about the Earth being a living organism and Gaia and all that jazz, the truth is a little different. See, the Earth is an egg. All this stuff growing on it is like moss, and bacteria. Bacteria that’s learn to build and destroy stuff. But it… we… can’t destroy the egg itself. That’s up to the Cosmos and the Grand Omniscient Dude floating somewhere out there in the soup of stars and vacuums.

This photo was sent to me by my oceanographer pal (who choose to remain nameless, since he fears being called a raving lunatic). He was floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere (he won’t tell me exactly where… something about the increase in boat traffic upsetting the migration of the Boring’s Grouper.) and spotted this THING in the water.

The Earth, remember, is an egg. This THING appears to be… well… a giant sperm. Not a sperm whale, you know. Nothing as simple as that. Something is trying to fertilize the planet.

I asked my pal why he didn’t try to kill this thing when he saw it. He grumbled and called me a few choice names, but, once he realized I was asking out of academic interest only, he replied.

“Imagine what it will hatch into, Louie!”

I pointed out that we’d probably all die if the Earth cracked open and something big and slimy popped out of it, but he didn’t seem to care. If there are sperm that size gliding around in our oceans, looking for an opening into the core, worrying about what the Earth might hatch out is just stupid.

My weekends at the Jersey shore are out though, I can tell you that.
I’m a dragon, for fuck’s sake. I’m not going out by being eaten be a giant sperm.

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Fantasy enthusiasts and animal documentary aficionados alike are sure to get a kick from this imaginative blend of adventure and nature special that purports to investigate the discovery of a dragon?s corpse in modern-day Romania. Director Justin Hardy skillfully balances the framing story of a British scientific team that attempts to understand the creature?s unique capabilities (flight, fire breathing) with documentary-style “re-creations” (narrated by The Lord of the (more…)