Advertising’s Grand Illusion Dale Earnhardt, Jr will make 21.4 million dollars this year. He is the world’s one hundredth most highly paid professional athlete.1 But don’t assume pro athletes make a lot of money. The sad truth is that the top 10 percent – the star athletes – receive more than 90 percent of all the money […]

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The Chimney Sweep with the Rolex Explorer The wood landed with a thud, rattling the poker resting against the fireplace. “Nope, no way,” said my wife sitting on the couch. I caught my breath and removed my lumberjack gloves. They’re not really lumberjack gloves, but they compliment my flannel shirt. “What do you mean?” I […]

Your body doesn’t have a single immune system; it has a bundle of them. And the most powerful of these systems is the one that rejects foreign tissue. This is why doctors do everything they can to suppress it during transplant surgery. That suppression doesn’t always work. When the cells of your body detect an […]

You wrote that your job status was ‘Pending.’ Indy nodded his head. “Do you really think you’ll get it?” Indy shrugged his little shoulders and said, ” ‘pends.

Characters in books and movies and TV shows are magical. They make us laugh and cry and hold our breath as they take us to a vivid elsewhere. Conflicted, exaggerated, accelerated characters live in a world more interesting than our own. And it is a world we like to visit, even if it’s only 30 […]

How to Write Banter, Dialogue, and Repartee

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Brad Whittington, left, and Gordon Atkinson, at right, are important novelists who write extraordinary banter and repartee. I’ll be assisting them in the new class coming to Wizard Academy this January, How to Write Banter, Dialogue and Repartee. – Roy H. Williams, with special thanks to Indy Beagle for letting me promote this in his rabbit hole.

He addresses the crowd in Norwegian for about 30 seconds, then begins singing in English. Awesome.–Indy

The goal of every 18 year-old is to be called onstage in front of 20,000 people, rock their world, and then walk offstage as they chant your name. This actually happened to Maddi Gruber the day after she graduated from Magical Worlds. Video evidence attached. Heh, heh, heh. – Indy

 

Bad lip-synch and goofy costumes are unmistakable signs of the 1970s. – Indy

The private song of my life is one of my great fears. I have an 8-year-old son.

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This is the new House of the Lost Boys! It will sit perpendicular to Engelbrecht House and look up at Chapel Dulcinea from the valley below. You remember the Lost Boys. Neverland? Peter Pan? As we were touring the building site on Saturday, one of the alumni at the Academy Reunion smiled and said to […]