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:mumbling: So, I’m gonna go see MOONFALL Saturday.

I know, I know… I was skeptical about MOONFALL. I still am, sort of. But it looks really, really, gloriously dumb, and I could use that. Beer + chicken sandwich + movie = rest and relaxation, and I’m signing up for a dose for Saturday. Rotten Tomatoes is arguing that people’s reactions to MOONFALL will depend on how well they can tolerate B-movie cheese, and right now I feel like having a whole wheel of the stuff.

02/03/22 Snippet, THE THING IN THE AIRLOCK.

Decisions!

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There was nobody around as Tobias walked back to his office, so he felt fine with muttering. “Asenath, what would it take to get the surveillance system back online?” He knew the answer, but…

Either a two week delay in launching the Lifeboat, or an estimated ten lives lost from the power shortfalls, Commander. Is either acceptable at this time?

…it was the same one. “Damn all Cold Equations.” Resources were tight, although at least they had enough margin these days to keep everybody breathing, fed, and above freezing. And if I magi… somehow got enough power to turn the cameras back on, I’d just put all that extra energy into the Lifeboat project. Terrifying disaster on Earth or not, man’s days on the moon were numbered. The faster they got the Lifeboat to work, the fewer people would die.

But he didn’t have to like it.

The WITCHER Second Season Honest Trailer.

I really need to sit down and watch this. And… ooh, there’s a Witcher graphic novel collection with a Mike Mignola cover. That’s worth a spot on the Wish List.

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‘I Got You Babe.’

(This is several years old.)

‘I Got You Babe,’ Walk Off The Earth

Mulligan.

Today was not a fun day. Nobody’s dead, in the hospital, missing, or even injured. But as days go, it was not pleasant.

02/02/2022 Snippet, THE THING IN THE AIRLOCK.

A body!

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They found the body in a broom closet (Tobias dimly remembered being surprised to find brooms on the moon, even if they did look more like mutated feather dusters). The smell was unfortunately quite describable, if you were willing to use the word ‘wretched’ early, and often. Plus, the corpse was oozing.

“How did we miss this?” Tobias asked West. The two of them were in light suits, the kind worn when you were a little worried about leaks but still had to move around easily. They had bubble helmets and could filter the air, and that was the important thing. “I thought we did a room-by-room search for suicides months ago.”

“We did. This is Corporal Shirley Oates,” West said. “She was alive and standing watch on Thursday.”

Corporal Oates was not reported missing, Asenath whispered. And biometric tracking remains offline. But even if the corpse has been here for three days, its decomposition is still unusually rapid.

‘Iron Man.’

Iron Man, Stary Olsa

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The THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS teaser trailer.

GeekTyrant feels that this “looks a little cheesy,” and they’re not wrong, but…

…let’s be honest. It’s not like VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (either one) wasn’t cheesy, either. The concept is cheese-friendly. I’m more interested if this version of THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is any good.

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So, it’s official: I’ll be at Frightreads.

Just sent over the payment for my table. That makes my 2022 schedule so far:

February 25-27: Farpoint.October 1: FrightReads.

…As you can see, I currently have plenty of spots available in my schedule. Feel free to suggest venues!

Moe Lane

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Tweet of the day, MUUURRRRDDDER edition.

MURDER MOST FOUL.

New Jersey’s weather-predicting groundhog, Milltown Mel, has died suddenly — just before his big day https://t.co/1pP4BllOLr pic.twitter.com/QE8aQIp1Mi

— New York Post (@nypost) February 1, 2022

Caleb covers the likely results pretty accurately, I think.

Dang. That means instead of six more weeks of winter, the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. And in those days men shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth. Shoot! https://t.co/O6AEAHqr9X

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) February 1, 2022