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By Holly Frost

Hi Huns, Hoydens, and other creatures,

I have a lovely guest post . . . and I don’t know what name the author wants on it! Darn (checks notes) authors and their pen names.

It will be up by and by when the author gets back to me.

All are well on the Hoyt end of the blog: a little frazzled by the existence of global rotation and the resulting differences in night and day. As happens.

The Long Silence

Don’t sound the alarm. Don’t send for the emergency services. For the next week (or so) things are going to be a little rocky and delayed both here and at instapundit, partly because my assistant and I both managed to be traveling at the same time. Which means I’m not here, and she’s not catching up for me.

Well, I’m here, sort of. Sometimes.

The biggest problem is that I’m having trouble thinking of topics, because I’ve been busy (nothing bad, it’s just family stuff — involved famil...

Careers

More than once in Agatha Christie’s novels, I came across a phrase that used to puzzle me: “I/she disapprove/s of marriage as a career for women.”

Being a thoroughly post-modern Millie, who came of age in the early eighties, that just didn’t scan. A marriage was not a career. It was something you did for love, or, increasingly, didn’t do at all in Europe at least. Because who needs a paper, if you’re in love after all?

Later, when I was a young mother, mired in diapers kid spit up and...

The Way of the Scorpion

As I write this, Israel has gotten back all the living kidnap victims. Unfortunately there’s only twenty of them.

Also fortunately Trump managed to get in the treaties that Hamass doesn’t get to stage its repulsive rallies or give “souvenirs” to the hostages.

Both of these are great and good. But I flinch a little when I hear about the “peace.” I don’t think Trump is stupid. I don’t even think he’s as naive as he was in his first term. Surely he doesn’t expect it to hold.

Or maybe ...

Two More for The Sound Track

Two more songs for the sound track.

Some observations:

1- Prodigal is of course the chapter in which Skip is visited by his father’s ghost, and let’s all be very grateful he just decides to become a diplomat instead of going Hamlet-murdery. Very sensible of him. (I can’t believe I’m posting THAT.)

I realize the chapter being 2 songs is weird, but I thought the feel was very different and for narrative (also boppy) reasons New London New London was needed.

Prodigal is a very weir...

Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Sarah A. Hoyt

Book Promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you...

Je Vois La Vie En Memes

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Oh Deary Me. Clankers Again

Y’all are MONSTERS. MONSTERS. I was standing on the corner, minding my own business (probably reading my Heinlein) when suddenly some baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad commenter (You are a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad thing. Baaaaaaaaaaaaad.) mentioned the words “sound track for books.” And that I really should do a sound track for No Man’s Land.

It’s not like y’all don’t know I’m slightly on the spectrum (like people are slightly pregnant while screaming into the delivery room) and likely to become obsess...

That’s Not How Any of This Works!

There are reasons to be afraid of AI. None of them are inherent to AI, though. They lie at the intersection of AI and human stupidity.

No, you are not at risk of AI going sentient. Would you people stop with that? That’s science FICTION, not reality. AI is like a giant calculator that can absorb everything you feed it, including words and images. But it’s still a giant number-sorter. It’s not going to become our overlord. And those of you who are pushing this are driving my poor priest in...

Have Some Clanker Songs

UPDATE: There won’t be another post. Sorry. The younger DIL and I were moving things around and playing with heavy duty sanders. Tired now.

There will be a real post later. (We’re all out of schedule!) For now have some clanker songs.
And curse those who gave me the idea of a sound track. You know who you are! Have you no shame?
So here is the first track, Space Admiral’s Son.

And here is a redo of Forever Through No Man’s Land which youtube, inexplicably, decided was a short!

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