Another Obscure S-List Writer
This week is Black Tape for a Blue Girl. I saw them live while Sam and Lisa were still married. Lisa was very pregnant. My biggest memory of that show was the DJ set after and Elysabeth Grant dancing in the crowd with the rest of us.
I came close to finishing up a new story whose working title is “The Trap”. It is science fiction horror in the same broad setting as ”The Visions of Cireb”. I am working towards having enough stories set in the growing Portuguese space empire to select the best for a collection of 6–8 stories whose length is 40,000 to 60,000 words.
Today is the the Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross and the feast day of Greatmartyr Eustathius Placidas, with his wife and children,…
This past week was Star Trek day. I wrote about Star Trek in terms of genre and ownership, but Overlord DVD really captured what Star Trek means to so many of us.
That’s great if they cover something you wanted, but what if you want to build something else. Psi-Wars is a worked example of creating such a framework for your specific campaign idea.
Even if you don’t read the whole book, seek out “By His Bootstraps” which may be the ur snarled time travel story. The first part of “The Year of the Jackpot”, like the parts of Heinlein’s Future History that describe the Crazy Years, hits too close to home. It did before 2020, but now it is a harder hit. “The Menace from Earth” inspired part of the background to J. Daniel Sawyer’s Hadrian’s Flight.
I am a fan of excellent Timothy Hutton and Maury Chaykin led, troupe centered A Nero Wolfe Mystery series. While I cannot imagine anyone by Chaykin in the role of Wolfe, this unbought pilot for 1959 series starring William Shanter as Archie Goodwin left me curious as to how he would have done in the role in the long haul.
This letter/diary was written four years and a month before my birth, but I feel a strong kinship with the writer.
Welcome to the return, later in the day than usual, return of Sunday Reading. It is a short list today, but a goal for March is returning to a full set of Pythagorean solids every week.
Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost and the Twelfth Sunday of Luke. It is the feast day of Venerable Makarios the Great of Egypt, the Anchorite.
The odd thing about celebrating the 75th anniversary of D-Day by doing what you did on D-Day, parachuting into Normandy, is it is easier at 97 than 22. You get to do it in day light and without people trying to kill you.
Today we are all over the place. From amazing cultural photography to to animals big and small to a defense of language, enjoy your Sunday reading.
I had a very hard time writing this week. I missed Thursday’s blog and would have missed Tuesday’s post if it hadn’t been for Mary Spender this week. Her Tuesday Talk this week, which I listened to on my Tuesday lunch walk got me moving.
Only a small roll this week, so use it in a roll-under game and not for damage.
Good morning. Today is the third Sunday of Pascha, the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus.
Welcome to the second Sunday in April 2019. For my friends in Western churches, I hope you have a fruitful Holy Week. Those of us in Eastern churches have another week left before Holy Week.
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