In keeping with last week’s musical theme … So, those who are very familiar with my wife’s musical tastes, or who have been at the studio when one is played, are likely to know that, for the most part, she hates cover versions of songs. (Covers of Fleetwood Mac songs are the recipients of extra special hate.) I do not share this low opinion of covers; in fact, some of my favorite songs are cover versions.
Continue reading “(Don’t) Cover Me”Author: James Viscosi
That Was The Year That Was (In Music): 2020 Edition
Last week I posted my 2020 reading report from Goodreads; this week, it’s time for my 2020 listening report from Last.fm:
Continue reading “That Was The Year That Was (In Music): 2020 Edition”That Was The Year That Was (In Books): 2020 Edition
So as they do every year, the algorithm elves over at Goodreads have prepared an annual review of the books their users read and rated in 2020. Being a year when there was, shall we say, not a lot in the way of places to go or things to do, plus one in which I managed not to end up in the ICU for a while, one might think I would have read quite a bit more than in 2019, but in fact, I only read about 200 more pages. Maybe I was spending too much time watching the news …
Continue reading “That Was The Year That Was (In Books): 2020 Edition”Teaser Tuesday: Finite Jest
So I finished Infinite Jest, exactly when my reader estimated I would*. And thus we see that the jest is not infinite**.
The Early Years: Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Or Possibly Just Coming to Get You.
And All It Took Was A Pandemic
Some years ago—never mind how long precisely*—I acquired a board game called Zombies!!!
Not A Review Of “Ad Astra”
So recently we started watching Ad Astra, a science fiction movie in which Tommy Lee Jones has gone from Space Cowboy to (maybe) Space Loony when, 30 years after his exploration ship vanishes*, powerful electromagnetic surges emanating from its last known location begin threatening to annihilate human civilization. So what do you do when you have a great big movie star who has gone missing? You send an even bigger movie star after him, of course.
Continue reading “Not A Review Of “Ad Astra””Closed Captionses
As I’ve mentioned several times before, back when Dennis the Vizsla had become a noisy-little-old-man-loudly-complaining-that-it’s-bedtime dog, we got in the habit of running videos with the closed-captioning turned on. Sometimes the closed-captioning has typos. Sometimes the typos are pretty amusing. And sometimes they may reveal something about the program you’re watching …
Continue reading “Closed Captionses”Random Rejection: Dark Regions, “The Last Vacancy”
Realizing it has been a long, long time since I did a random rejection, this week, I decided to fire up the old random number generator and reach into the old accordion file of denials (and the occasional acceptance). This time I was told to take the 26th rejection from the “D” folder, and so here we have this one, from Dark Regions magazine (which is still around, and is now the specialty book publisher Dark Regions Press), for my short story “The Last Vacancy”:
Continue reading “Random Rejection: Dark Regions, “The Last Vacancy””Teaser Tuesday: Still “Infinite Jest”
What, you didn’t think I was going to be finished with Infinite Jest before the next Teaser Tuesday, did you?
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