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One of my favorite stories about Linda, who was Krissy’s aunt and who passed away earlier this month, was how she welcomed me when we moved to Ohio, 24 years ago now. When I arrived at our new house, Linda was there with the rest of the family, and when she saw me, she came over to me with a necklace that consisted of a buckeye on a string. She put ( Read more... )

When I was a sophomore in college, there was one song in particular that I had on constantly. I mean this song was on repeat for months on end. When I think back to that school year, this song is the soundtrack to that year.

And here it is; Science by Allie X:

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The Shattering Peace, the seventh book in the Old Man’s War series, done on January 21, 2025 at 12:34 am. 80,008 words, not counting acknowledgements. It’s late by a couple of months, but (gestures at world). It’ll be out in September(ish).

Gonna write some acknowledgements, and then I’m going to sleep for a month.

- JS

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I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it. http://www.vulture.com/article/neil…;
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-01-13T11:35:26.996Z

If you want to know when I pretty much drew a line though my friendship with Neil Gaiman, it was when Neil acknowledged that he made moves on his early-20s nanny on her ( Read more... )

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Lucy Dacus is one third of boygenius, whose album The Record is my favorite of the last couple of years, and she has a solo album, Forever is a Feeling, coming in March, of which this song, with its utterly charming video, is the first single. I can’t imagine I won’t be getting the album when it comes out. In the meantime, enjoy this.

- JS

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Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
- Variety (@variety.bsky.social) 2025-01-16T18:23:12.117Z

For fuck’s sake, 2025, ease off the pedal, already.

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Recently I was scrolling on Instagram (big shocker, I know) and came across an ad for a cafe passport. In the past couple years I have seen many a brewery trail, winery booklets that you get stamped at each one you visit, even donut trails! But this was the first time I’d seen a coffee shop passport. And the best part was it wasn’t for some wildly ( Read more... )

Temperatures are about to drop all across North America, so what better time to peruse a stack of new book and ARCs! What here would you like to snuggle up with on a chilly winter weekend? Share in the comments!

- JS

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/17/new-books-and-arcs-1-17-24/

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Nothing great!

I was going to write a longer and more serious piece about this, and who knows, later I might, but right now I’m behind on a book deadline and it has priority. Nevertheless, I would feel remiss not at least posting some bit of commentary about this now. So, briefly, here it is:

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