Month: January 2024

Not A Review Of “Six Feet Under”

~ James Viscosi ~ 12 Comments

So not long ago, having recently finished Mr. Robot, a show that, perhaps surprisingly, my wife really liked:

Wife: “Poor Elliot. His life sucks.”*

We started casting around for another program to become or “main course”, a position previously occupied by such luminaries as Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Halt and Catch Fire (my personal favorite, because computer nerds), The Wire, and Treme (but not The Magicians). Someone somewhere recommended another show we missed the first time around, Six Feet Under, so we decided to give that one a try.

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Chuckle Fireball

~ James Viscosi ~ 9 Comments

So the other day, I happened to notice in of my feeds where someone posted a joke Magic: The Gathering card for Chuck Norris:

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Teaser Tuesday: Clifford D. Simak, “Way Station”

~ James Viscosi ~ 8 Comments

So this week (well, probably several weeks ago by the time this post appears) I was reading Way Station, a classic SF novel from the 1960s by Clifford D. Simak:

Show me the way to go home …
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That Was The Year That Was (In Music): 2023 Edition

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Last week I posted my 2023 reading report from Goodreads; this week, it’s time for my 2023 listening report from Last.fm. What was playing this year? If you guessed it’s largely the same as what was playing last year, you won’t be too far off. Let’s start with the big report, shall we?

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That Was The Year That Was (In Books): 2023 Edition

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So this year, as it does every year, Goodreads compiled a list of the books I read, making a nice little ― or not so little ― tapestry of covers, along with a few details. You can check out the list at Goodreads here, or look at the screen shots below. The advantage of visiting the list at Goodreads is that you can interactively click on individual books to see their entries; the advantage of viewing the screen shots is you get to go make a nice hot cup of tea while waiting for them all to finish loading. Let’s review a few notes about this year’s list!

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