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Sunday Funnies, part 34: Murphy’s Manor & the 30-year Wedding
Another in my series of posts recommending web comics that I think more people should read. Except this entry isn’t really about a web comic...
(The review, plus mini reviews of other comics I've recommended before, is at FontFolly.Net.
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Friday Five (the end is nigh edition)
It's Friday! We have five Fridays in May, which is cool, I suppose. Tomorrow is the beginning of Pride month ( Read more... ) -
Dark barons and ultra-competent (conniving) wizards, or, more of why I love sf/f
Jack L. Chalker is probably most famous for the Well World Series, which consisted of ten novels written over the course of 17 years. And while it was through the first several novels of that series that I first began reading Jack L. Chalker, I didn’t become a squeeing fanboy of his work until I read The River of the Dancing Gods, either late in ( Read more... ) -
Confessions of a Coffee Maniac
I’ve written before about how growing up I thought of cans of Folgers ground coffee as high quality, and then the little cans of instant with pre-mixed flavored creamer that was sold under the name General Foods International Coffee were gourmet coffee. A coffee grinder was an antique appliance with a big hand crank on top that you would see from ( Read more... ) -
Shiny old toy: today, my Mac Pro Tower turns 10 years old, still going strong!
My very first computer was assembled from a kit (had to solder some part together myself) way back in the early 1980s, and by default came with only a couple hundred bytes of memory (not kilobytes, bytes!). My first actually useful home computer was an Apple ][e clone, made by one of only two companies to ever get a license from Apple to make OEM ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Update 5/25/2019: Is irony officially dead?
Sometimes you just have to laugh: Owners of biblical replica of Noah’s ark sue over … rain damage (and it wasn’t even 40 days and 40 nights). In case you aren’t familiar, the Ark Encounters theme park (and Creationism Museum) in Kentucky was built with an $18,000,000 (that’s 18 million) from the taxpayers ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five (epistemic spillover edition)
It's Friday! it's already the fourth Friday in May--and it's Memorial Day Weekend. Already ( Read more... ) -
We have always been here, part 3
So, this third installment in a series about misperceptions of what diversity means and how it has occured in science fiction/fantasy has been sitting in the draft queue for a long time, in part because I needed to do some more research to shore it up. But now, thanks to Cora Buhlert, I can leverage this excellent review: The Golden Age Was More ( Read more... ) -
But what is it? Or, why we worry about sf/f, sub-genres, and fictional rules
I was reading (and participating) in the comments on Camestros Felapton’s excellent review of one of the Hugo nominated stories, and found myself thinking a lot about how and why we humans like to classify everything in general, and stories/movies/et cetera in particular...
(The rest of this post is at FontFolly.Net.)
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