Hot as...
I don’t have a printable way to describe these temperatures. Let’s just say my 4th of July celebrations are going to take place…indoors. I think I have some...
Movies, Good and...Less So
Review: Mickey 17 I missed this one in theaters. I wish I was more disappointed. First of all, lighting. This is the second movie in a row that needed more...
Riding the “L” Train – A Few Thoughts About Elevated Railways
Where I grew up, cities either had trams (rarely) or subways (slightly less rarely). London started the subway trend. (As a note, the largest metro/subway...
Family and Space Noir
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart This book is science fiction in that it’s set in the future…self-driving cars are routine, but recent, and a girl might...
Hounds!
So, Hearts For Hounds has been brought forward so the charity can sell it at one of their events. There are two volumes. My story is in volume two, but...
Monsters and Mothers
Review: Frankenstein (2025) Guillaume del Toro According to Wikipedia, as of April 2026, 480 feature films include some version of Frankenstein’s monster....
Bass Reeves and Who the Cowboys Really Were
Watch an older Hollywood Western and you’ll see a sea of white faces, with a token indigenous face who’s inevitably either the villain or the sidekick. All...
Winds and Moods
Valley of Spiraling Winds by Peter J. Oluloa Britos This book has an interesting structure. A huge chunk of it is an extended dream sequence experienced by...
Surviving Prohibition - What Beer and Ponies Have To Say About Resilience
I’ll confess. I’m not much of a beer person. I occasionally enjoy a very fruity beer or a wheat ale. I simply don’t like the taste of hops. No, the citrus...
Gaming Time
This was queued on Monday, and news is somewhat limited. I’ve seen, and approved, preliminaries for both the cover and interior art for Herding Cats,...
All Kinds of Mistakes
Wizards of Waverly Place 2.27 "Wizards vs. Vampires: Tasty Bites" Juliet accidentally glamours the Russos (except Alex) into wanting to be healthy. Alex is...
From Mad Max to Appalachia
Review: Tracer by Brendan Deneen Imagine Mad Max. Then have it make slightly more sense. Slightly. In Tracer’s future, most of humanity was killed by mutant...
All the Updates
Chicago was interesting enough that I plan on going back on vacation…when I don’t have a conference to attend. Yes, I got tavern style pizza (I’m not a fan...
Vampires and Battles
Wizards of Waverly Place 2.24 "Wizard for a Day" Alex obtains a hat that gives you wizard powers for a day and gives it to her dad for his birthday. When he...
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...