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Monday, 24 November 2025
quote [ a chill, community-based alternative to the consumer chaos of retail's busiest weekend.
[?] Come to Firestorm's patio where there will be cute tents and also ? free ? hot apple cider! ] Even if you're not in [squints] Carolina events like these are a great way to spend Buy-Nothing Day not-shopping.
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Sunday, 16 November 2025
quote [ Stream/Download: https://smarturl.it/IndianChristmasListen to full Album on Spotify ]
I would probably go shopping more if they played this Genre of music in Tis Season.
Custom home-made gifts gain added Kudoes.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2025
quote [ I recently read Harry Harrison?s Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the book on which the Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green (1973) is based. My edition features an introduction by Paul Erhlich, solemnly noting that the nightmarish dystopia depicted of a vastly overpopulated New York City is less a work of science fiction than a sneak preview. ]
Ah, it's just never right for these over- and underpopulation doomers.
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Monday, 21 April 2025
quote [ Let?s romanticize them. Why not? They certainly put out lots of garbage, but it was honest human garbage.
[?] to be a ?pulp? magazine really meant one thing: be printed on cheap paper. (That?s the pulp.) ] Honestly didn't yet read all of it, but liked the snippets about early weird SF and their authors.
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Saturday, 1 June 2024
quote [ reading is hot, good literary taste should be celebrated, and people aren?t reading nearly enough for ?hyper consumerism? to be at all attached to this conversation ]
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The Dispossessed -
The classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust... and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
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Saturday, 30 July 2022
quote [ But don?t worry / Everybody?s still hung up in it ]
listened to this the other day. From '61.
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Thursday, 25 February 2021
quote [ The end of the world is never really the end of the world?at least not in fiction. After all, someone must survive to tell the tale. And what tales they are. Humans have been pondering the end of existence for as long as we?ve been aware of it. ]
An older article from last year, but thought I'd share it. Two of my faves ("The Postman" and "Cloud Atlas") are on it, as well as McCammon's "Swan's Song." I always felt McCammon never got the recognition he deserved.
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Tuesday, 8 December 2020
quote [ "the standard to which all future pencil-sharpening textbooks must now aspire." (New Yorker) ]
That's a cool book I received some christmases ago. It's author quit the sharpening business in the meantime, it seems.
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Thursday, 17 September 2020
quote [ Alongside the lack of incentive, Critchlow also believes that Goodreads ultimately still serves the purpose most people use it for. ?I think a ?better Goodreads? is alluring because reading books and sharing books is an incredibly emotional experience,? he says. ?But? keeping a list of books you?ve read and want to read is actually served pretty well? Most of the imagined features and social ideas are not actually that useful.? ]
That was too interesting to pass on, sorry for the double post. Many links to follow, especially A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads featured many nice thoughts.
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Monday, 30 September 2019
quote [ Wren Library in St Paul?s cathedral to describe what the library smelled like to them. Everyone described its smell as ?woody?, while 86% also experienced it as ?smoky?, 71% as ?earthy? and just under half (41%) reported the scent of ?vanilla? ? all smells associated with particular chemicals in old books. ]
The chemicals between us.
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Codename: Clusterfuck -
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
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