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Nonsense 001, 3/28/25

It’s not the 500. It’s nonsense. Short Story Deal Me In, wk 12: 2❤️“The Wish” by Myrtle Levy Gaylord Deuces are wild! I picked a story from an old issue of Weird Tales. What would today be called flash fiction is referred to then as a vignette. A mother is granted a wish for her […]

Project Fangoria: Issue 6

Issue 6, June 1980 First Anniversary Issue! This is the third sci-fi cover in a row for Fangoria; a trend that comes to an end with this issue. (There won’t be a non-horror cover again until a next year with Dragonslayer and issue 13.) The first anniversary issue serves up a lot of fan service. […]

Monday Miscellanea, 3/24/25

Ultimate Frisbee With drier, warmer weather, we were back to our regular schedule. In fact, Eric and I ran and threw Sunday–Wednesday, played our spring league game Thursday night, and played pickup on Friday at noon. That was a good bit of work for two old people. My running and throwing was pretty good, which […]

Cinema Saturday, 3/22/25

Kill Year: 2023Runtime: 1h 45mRated: R Writer: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat Director: Nikhil Nagesh BhatStars: Lakshya, Raghav Juyal, Ashish Vidyarthi, Abhishek Chauhan On a train to New Delhi, the fiancée of a special forces commando is taken hostage during a robbery. There really needs to be a sub-sub-genre of action movie called “mayhem on a train.” […]

Reading Notes, 3/19/25

Short Stories “Landline” by Kelly Robson “Landline” takes a scary, helpless reality-based situation—what if you called to check on your child and find that he’s been left home alone—and makes it so much worse with the introduction of possible supernatural aspects. It also plays around with the narrator’s view of things: what is originally depicted […]

Monday Miscellanea, 3/17/25

What Happened Last Week? Or rather, what’s happened in the last two weeks, since I missed last Monday. Not much, hence the lack of update. Motivation has been elusive. My second spring league game went pretty well. I scored the first point of the game, in fact. Other than that, my playing was okay. No […]

Cinema Saturday, 3/15/25

The Way of the Dragon Year: 1972Runtime: 1h 30mRated: R Writer: Bruce LeeDirector: Bruce LeeStars: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Wei Ping-ou, Chuck Norris Martial artist Tang Lung is sent to help a friend’s niece resist the overtures of a cartel bent on buying her restaurant. I picked The Way of the Dragon for the Cult […]

Cinema Sunday, 3/9/25

The Vourdalak Year: 2023Runtime: 1h 30mRated: — Writers: Adrien Beau & Hadrien BouvierDirector: Adrien BeauStars: Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider In 18th century eastern Europe, a French emissary is waylaid by bandits and takes refuge with a very strange family. This movie is based on a story by Aleksey Tolstoy. Nina […]

Reading Notes, 3/5/25

Short Stories Deal Me In, wk 9: Q♦“Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect?” by John Wiswell In this tale of “infernal academia,” an unnamed demon conducts an experiment to prove that human belief doesn’t create demons. At least, that its hypothesis. Alas, sometimes hypotheses are incorrect. This is a fun story with great voice. It would […]

Monday Miscellanea, 3/3/25

Spring League 2025 It’s time for spring league! Draft for both divisions was Sunday night; I had teams to post on Monday. Carlos, our league director this season, had the schedule done on Wednesday; I formatted and posted the schedule Wednesday afternoon. Everything was up and in good shape by game time on Thursday. For […]