Presenting the Past - An Overview of Museology
Museology. Museum studies. It’s the study of museums, including how they impact society. Operational museology is the field of, well, making a good museum....
Robots and Heroes
Review: Ordell’s Constellation by J.C. Cole This short book is kind of aiming at pulp, but kind of misses, which is unfortunate. Future humans are setting up...
Pizza?
By the time you see this, I’ll be in Chicago. Well, Rosemont, which a Chicagoan described to me as “A theme park version of the real Chicago for the benefit...
Endings and Origins
Wynnona Earp 4.11 “Better Dig Two” Waverly is all dark angel, and when Wynonna says she doesn’t want to watch, Waverly blinds her. Temporarily. Probably just...
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi - America's Great River
2,350 miles. Ten states. 16,792 cubic feet of water into the Gulf…per second. And, even now, 175 million tons of freight a year. That’s the Mighty...
A Better School Story
Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Ah, the British public school. Which is backwards, because in Britain, “public” means “private.” And posh private at...
Busy, Busy
Balticon went great! Despite the weather, which curtailed some of my “hang out outside with cool people” plans. And despite the flood in the main...
Dark Reckonings
Daredevil 1.6 "Condemned" Things have gotten really dark. A substantial amount of the NYPD is corrupt, Fisk seems to have bought himself a few cops. He's...
That Time Kim Jong-Il Made a Kaiju Movie
Sometimes, you just go down a rabbithole. And sometimes you get pushed down one…which is how I ended up knowing, somehow for the first time, the story of...
Into Hell and Into the Computer
Review: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang “Katabasis” is Greek for “journey” or “descent.” Katabasis is a riff on Dante’s Inferno through the lens of dark academia....
Updated Balticon Schedule
So, yeah. The schedule changed. This is accurate as of 11pm Wednesday and I can’t guarantee it won’t change again because of some emergency. Friday, 5:30pm -...
Brains!
Wynonna Earp 4.9 “Crazy” In this episode, we dive into the dynamics of abusive relationships. No, really. We do. Somebody is killing trivia winners. At...
Fiction for Social Change – Why We Shouldn’t Be Writing For “Grandma”
So, ridiculous take on social media – I should only write things that would not offend the “average elder” and should think about whether I would show my...
Lions and Robots, Oh My
Review: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell Slight disappointment – I did not love this book the way I loved Someone You Can Build A Nest In. But it was also...
So Much News
Clydesdale for “tax.” I will talk about my vacation, but I can’t yet, because I have too much news! First the miscellaneous list (I know links would be good,...
A Grab Bag - Family and Violence
Andor 1.2 "That Would Be Me" As the dragnet closes, Cassian prepares to get out of dodge while remembering what happened on Kanari. (Or part of it, things...
What Are Those Giant Arrows - a Brief History of Air Traffic Control
If you’ve traveled across America, you might have come across a giant concrete arrow. Likely it’s brush covered and a little rough. If you’ve ever wondered...
Magical Girls - Not the Anime Kind
Review: Into the Wild Magic by Michelle Knudsen This book is a classic MG portal fantasy, and also about friendship. Bevvy is finding it hard to make new...
Still On the Road
Yup, still on vacation. Which means I don’t have any news as I queued this on April 29. I am definitely looking forward to Balticon. The Wine Village is...
A Grab Bag of Adventure
Wizards of Waverly Place 2.16 "Future Harper" Harper comes back from the future to write books about wizards and reveals the wizard world won't stay secret...