More Dark Side – Another Place to Read the Same Review

Look at me! I’m in the Borg!  Just barely.  Is it a coincidence that the same day I have reason to remember my review of The Rite, Julie D. invites me to her little den of bookishness at Patheos?  She said reprints were good, so I cleaned up my Rite review and stuck it there. Now Larry D.’s going to have create a portal called PathMagistra.  It’s the only choice.

Dear Larry D.,

I promise I have not gone over the dark side for mere money.  (Which I won’t be getting.  HCB is a non-paying gig.)  I did it to annoy you.

Okay, actually I did it because Julie asked me, and she’s super nice and she even fed me dinner, twice. My independent investigation confirms her cooking blog is not merely a front for some shady side-enterprise.  And it turns out I write a lot of book reviews, so I figured I’d have material for it without too much work.  And because it was either that or clean my desk.

Like all good underlings, I promise to sway with the winds and follow which ever dark lord is nearest.

Sincerely,

Jennifer.

[Note to readers, is it just a coincidence that Larry “D.” and Julie “D.” have the same last initial?  Hmmn.  Presumably their writing all just flows from the same “D.” source.  The apparent contradictions in their work are no doubt proof of their mythological origins in the oral traditions of the platform so-called “W”, the scholar’s abbreviation for “WordPress”.  Give that parts of the “D.” tradition can also be found on the platform referred to in some texts as “Blogspot”, scholars debate whether those works should be labeled platform “B”, or whether “B” is just a linguistic variation on “W”, or perhaps a separate platform “G.”  Research is underway with select people-groups to determine whether “Julie” and “Larry” are different names at all, or merely regional appellations for the same person, variably represented in the Texan and Northern-Midwestern cultures.]