So far, in 2021, I’m back to reading the books on my eReader in the order in which I acquired them, which means at the moment I’m excavating the sedimentary layers of 2017. Remember 2017? It was a bygone era when everyone still liked Game of Thrones and people were able to leave the house and travel just about anywhere they wanted and, apparently, I picked up a lot of bad books, mostly, I think, from BookBub and Amazon Prime First Reads*.
Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday: “Earthseed””Te Big Bang Teory
So since we’ve spent the last ten months or so basically never leaving the house (other than to take the animals to the vet when necessary), we have, unsurprisingly, been watching a lot of television. One show that we picked up—which, amazingly enough, we never watched when it was originally airing—is The Big Bang Theory. My wife refers to this show as “dessert”, i.e., a nice little marzipan confection to be consumed after watching something dark, say, an episode of His Dark Materials or I May Destroy You or Lovecraft Country* or, you know, the news.
Continue reading “Te Big Bang Teory”(Don’t) Cover Me
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”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 …
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Viscosity 