“It Came From Half-Price Books”
Today (Thursday) was the last day of a 20% off sale at Half-Price Books and I took the opportunity to pick up a number of selections for the Collection. "Wonder…
This Week in Comics — 2010/12/22
Two entries this week, one expected and one unexpected. The first, “Zatanna”, is a title I normally collect, the second one, “Batman Annual”, that I normally don’t bother with but examined just because it was new this week, and I’m glad I did.
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No New Post this Weekend — On Holiday
Well, actually not just because I'm taking the weekend off for the holidays. I caught was is always called "what is just going around" and it came around here. I…
Google Ngrams — A Hypnotic Resource
One of the more controversial things that Google has done (at least to authors such as myself) was to digitize and convert a wide variety of written material and present…
“Birdland” by Gilbert Hernandez
[amtap amazon:asin=1560972009] A three-issue series and a soft-cover collection with additional material, produced by Gilbert Hernandez, "Birdland" is the story of the troubled marriage between Mark and Fritz Herrera and…
“Girl Genius: Agatha H. and the Airship City” by Phil and Kaja Foglio
[amtap book:isbn=1597802115] Nothing that has anything to do with hypnosis (although the storyline does involve a particularly nasty form of mind control) but just a good read by some people…
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“GuildWars”
History: In 2005 I won a copy of the online game GuildWars without really wanting it. Therefore, I didn’t examine the game for a month or so, figuring I didn’t have time for an online game, but the box artwork and some of the things I saw about it online convinced me to take a further look. Little did I realize what I was going to get myself in to.
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“Trance-formation: The Therapeutic Value of Hypnosis†by Lloyd Glauberman, Ph D
An article in the Huffington Post was brought to my attention to Brian David Phillips. Very few psychological terms have quite the emotional impact that "hypnosis" does. All sorts of…
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“Fate Magazine” — ‘Special Hypnotism Issue’ — July, 1954
The venerable “Fate Magazine”, first published in 1948, has been in almost constant publication ever since. Self-described as “the world’s leading magazine of the paranormal” it combines nonfiction varying from personal anecdotes on the paranormal to studies and research on the various subjects under the collective description of “paranormal” to fiction, letters, regular columns and advertisements.
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“A Working Life: The Hypnotherapist†— Guardian, UK
The British newspaper The Guardian has an interesting article on hypnotherapist Anthony Jacquin. The window sill in the waiting room of Anthony Jacquin's hypnotherapy practice is piled high with empty…