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Der Promo von der Oyster Henry Vogel Scout’s Duty: A Planetary Romance Scout’s Honor Book 3

Years ago, Terran Scout David Rice crash-landed on the lost colony world of Aashla, where he rescued and fell in love with the beautiful Princess Callan. Pledging his life and sword to Callan and his adopted home world, David thought he’d never see another Terran again—until the night the sky was lit by weapons fire, as another starship tried and failed to blast its way through Aashla’s deadly planeta...

The Perpetually Outraged will be Perpetually Outraged – T. L. Knighton

The Perpetually Outraged will be Perpetually Outraged – T. L. Knighton

The perpetually outraged are funny to me. Oh, they infuriate me as much as the next person, but they’re funny. They’re always out there, hunting for things to get upset about. The thing is, from time to time, people give it to them.

For example, take the outrage over all the racists claiming they would boycott the new Star Wars movie. Now, none of the hateful cabal that made up the Sad Puppies said they would boycott anyth...

In Defense of Humans

I could start this high and mighty, by saying I’m getting sick and tired of seeing all sides of the political spectrum refer to other sides as though they weren’t human. I could. Except that I’d have to start by removing the log in my own eye. I think I was fourteen the first time a classmate — for good and sufficient reason (the woman had done war on the gifted-forms-that-weren’t-supposed-to-exist, including accusing us of breaking furniture in a room we’d never been in) — suggested we kill...

And The Left Cried Out “No Hiding Place!” By Christopher M. Chupik

And The Left Cried Out “No Hiding Place!”

By Christopher M. Chupik

Let me tell you the tale of two websites.

First is a forum dedicated to a famous SF franchise (no, not that one, the other one). Let’s call it Franchise X Forum. In addition to sometimes interesting discussions of Franchise X, I had also enjoyed the various “Babe of the Week” threads where posters would share harmless cheesecake of female celebrities. But all of a sudden, those threads were gone, and a pinned post warning agai...

It Is In Love

“And Oh, My Darling, be not afraid,
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear.” Leonard Cohen

So yesterday I was listening to this song, which I haven’t listened to in a long time but which used to be a favorite growing up.

And I started thinking about what they mean by “love.”

You know I don’t call myself an “artist” mostly for the same reason older son doesn’t call himself “someone who wants to help people.” It’s not that at some level we don’t know we are...

Count Your Blessings – Cedar Sanderson

Count Your Blessings – Cedar Sanderson

Count your blessings, name them one by one. I was reminded of this hymn earlier, by listening to my husband encourage a friend. It does seem that an awful lot of us have had very rough personal lives this year. And I’m not even going to get into the whole brouhaha of the professional mess many of us waded into, heart and soul. But something we seem to forget is that it’s important to stop, take a deep breath, and count our blessings.

It’s easy to dwell o...

Walls, Liberty and Trust

When I was a kid in the village, I could tell what the oldest walls around fields or houses were.

You see, in the sixties the new, nice houses being built, would have very short walls. Maybe four feet. Walls more for decoration than for anything else.

This didn’t mean there was no theft, of course. I mean, the smart woman brought in the wash from the line at night, and henhouses and rabbit hutches had as good a locking mechanism as a house’s. Sometimes someone got over the little walls and to...

Stay Away from Bloggers and Liquor

Okay, that might have been stay away from Jazz and liquor.

Sorry, guys, had dinner with friends after an exhausting day and while I didn’t even drink my normal, I was so wiped out I woke up feeling still dead.

I’m having tea and trying to come to normal non-zombie state.

Post early afternoon, I think.

Lazy

That’s what I am today. Also, not able to settle very long, because we’re going out for most of the day, so…

Anyway, I’m trying to write only three of the hard-to-write posts a week, and I have one scheduled for tomorrow.

So, let’s talk about art. Not art in general, that’s one of the dangerous posts that will end up at two thousand words and frothing at the mouth. No, let’s talk about my art, attempts at art, etc.

When I was very young, say around 14 I did art as well as writing. Then I deci...

Right, Left, Right — A RECENT BLAST FROM THE PAST

*I didn’t mean to post this today, but since everyone is posting this (it would help if stupid blogger remembered to link. Have pity on me. The day has included everything but a plague of locusts.) and asking my opinion, I think it’s a good time to do so. First, remember that international news are about as accurate about Portugal as about the US. Second, remember that Portugal doesn’t have two parties, it has fifty so every government is coalition. This means the right might have associated...