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...
Leaving Space - Why Reentry is So Complicated and Dangerous
A common question on social media this week has been why there isn’t an easier way to get back down. Why did our astronauts have to go through reentry,...
Horrible Things Happening to Children
Review: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins So, I manage to go into this book blind, and wound up slightly disappointed. I was hoping for something...
On the Road
So, I’m somewhere in Illinois or Missouri until some time on May 12, spending several days in Hannibal, boyhood home of Mark Twain. (Yes, that’s the...
Party Time
Wynonna Earp 4.8 “Hell Raisin’ Good Time” Pumpkinhead…never mind. Rotten Jack shows up, as he apparently does every Halloween, and starts killing BBD people....
Hard versus Soft Science Fiction - Musing on Verne and Wells
Hard science fiction – science should be rigorous and credible, technology should drawn from known principles Soft science fiction – science need not be...
On Matters of Religion
Review: The Monsters Among Us by Kent Priore CW: Child abuse (including sexual, although not graphic), offensive to multiple religions At first I thought...