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Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress by Roman AkLeff (previous installment can be read here)

Walter's biggest adjustment to college life was realizing that he wasn't the hot-shit intellectual he'd thought he was. In high school he hadn't been the smartest guy, but he'd felt like he was up there in at least the top five percent. Here he felt like an idiot at times. Senior year in high school he'd officially been the best player on the chess team, and moreover, first board on the first-place team in their league that year. At Columbia, he lost 24 consecutive speed games to one guy and never managed better than a draw with anybody in the chess club before, feeling frustrated and embarrassed, he stopped attending meetings.

He couldn't stop attending classes, though. In the only one he was taking that wasn't just for freshman, Political Theory,...

I have read The Hobbit a number of times, and unless my memory is not what it used to be, 'Yazneg' is a new character created for Peter Jackosn's movies. But what the heck is he? Definitely doesn't look like an Orc or a Goblin, and as he would appear to be almost Shaman-like in appearance. Could he be some type of sorcerer, perhaps affiliated with the Necromancer? We do know that he will be played by John Rawls, who will also don the prosthetics as Bolg. Thanks to Tolkiendrim.com for the images and info, and Jonas Jakobsen for the heads up.. The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company...