We get so strange across the border

Electric Velocipede's website has been updated to include the latest issue, #8, which means that my poems "Courting Hades" and "Years Like Yahrzeit Candles" are now online. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend purchasing an actual print-and-ink copy of this fine publication. Fiction by Liz Williams, come on! Yet another reason I love contributor's copies . . .

Still catching up on my silly quiz quota for the month. Cut for legalese and unintentional relevance to my current music.
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Elf Proof

(With the kind permission of fleurdelis28 and no apologies to the Silmarillion.)

fleurdelis28: I like the fact that Elrond is known as the Halfelven, though in fact he's something like one-quarter plus one-eighth elven.

Me: That website I sent you had figured out the precise percentage: I believe it was nine-sixteenths. This is when you have far too much time on your hands.

fleurdelis28: Yeah. I sometimes wonder what such energy could do invested in something more practical. Of course, I suppose statistically it could be spent on something practical and evil. Wouldn't the Puritans be surprised to find that, in fact, idle hands translate Sindarin?

(Cut for alcoholic elf musing.)
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