Farpoint Roundup
So, what of Farpoint I was able to actually attend was awesome. Then late Saturday night I came down with “food poisoning”…that turned out to be COVID. I...
Cold and Beautiful
Wynonna Earp 3.3 "Colder Weather" Dolls is definitely permanently dead. They don't spend an entire episode on the funeral if somebody's coming back. I'm sad,...
From Superstition to AI - Forecasting the Weather Has Always Been Desirable...and Hard
Right now, I'm sitting here looking out at the three inches of snow that was originally two feet. It's really common in the DC area for snow to be over-...
Boundaries
Review: Law of Vengeance by Dusk Peterson This is one of those writing exercises...I suspect Peterson started by writing one scene from Carle's point of...
At Farpoint
Winter pic because winter. This post was queued on Monday because I’ll be at Farpoint getting ready for the con to start - my first panel’s at 5, which isn’t...
Beautiful People
Wynonna Earp 3.1 "Blood Red And Going Down" So, here's a thing I give this show a lot of kudos for. Wynonna gives up her baby...and doesn't just carry on...
The Mail Must Go Through - Different Ways of Transporting the Post
Most of our "post" these days is instant and digital. But we still count on the post office for packages, letters, postcards... Public mail in Europe dates...
Masks
Review: Death Mask by Dusk Peterson It was worth getting through book one to get to this much more deft book. I'm still not a fan of some of the...
Lady Knights and Fun Updates
Okay, so I actually do have news. First of all, here’s my schedule for Farpoint Convention: Themes: Does Every Story Need One? – Fri 5 PM – McIntosh This is...
Breaking Seals
Wynonna Earp 2.8 "No Future in the Past" They blew quite a bit of budget on this one. Juan Carlo, who is dying, gets Wynonna to go on a vision quest. Into...
Cops, Bobbies, Peelers - Let's Talk About the History of the Police
Honestly, police are a difficult topic these days. Do we need them? What form should they take? How do we keep them accountable? But how did we even end up...
AI...Intimacy?
Review: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu The author describes this book as "realistic science fiction." I think that's fair, as its just too slowly paced to...
Quiet January - Maybe?
So, I don’t have my Farpoint schedule quite yet…I’ve been promised soon. I’ll post it to social media once I have it, but I’m very much looking forward to...
Sing to Sleep
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man 1.9 "Hero or Menace" The real menace is, of course, Osbourne. And those who don't know he's a bad guy because they're...
Beyond Annie Oakley - Some Interesting Women of the Wild West (and One Man?)
We all know about Annie Oakley. Alas, she's so famous that she dominates the search when you search for Black woman sharpshooters (Oakley was not Black, and...
Edwardian Magic...and Romance
Review: A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske CW: Explicit sex Specifically, this book includes explicit M/M sex. It's not gratuitous and reflects character...
No News Is...
…just no news, I suppose. It’s been particularly hard to focus on things this week with everything that’s going on. I’ve been doing some copyediting for a...
Spiders? Scorpions?
Wynonna Earp 2.1 "Steel Bars and Stone Walls" So, Waverly is possessed by an Old One. Dolls may actually be a demon, and there's more than one...Eliza...(who...
How Did Our Ancestors Move Granny - A History of Wheelchairs (and Similar)
Somebody posted on social media asking what disabled people did before wheelchairs were invented. Which, of course, sent me down a rabbithole. Turns out...
Tech Bros and Avenging Angels
Review: False Value by Ben Aaronovitch Aaronovitch sets things up so we won't know, at the start, if Peter is still a cop. All this does is create massive...