Mark Mark’s Comments (group member since Apr 13, 2012)


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Feb 23, 2022 08:22AM

4170 Dara wrote: "*poke head out from under my rock*"

DARA SIGHTING!


Funny SFF Stuff (1263 new)
Feb 23, 2022 07:40AM

4170 Fett House - a ‘90s Boba Fett Sitcom

https://youtu.be/Dzh1asHUQaQ
Funny SFF Stuff (1263 new)
Feb 23, 2022 07:35AM

4170 Cross-posted from the Expanse thread

The Expanse: The Animated Series

https://twitter.com/MisterABK/status/...
Feb 23, 2022 07:33AM

4170 The Expanse: The Animated Series

https://twitter.com/MisterABK/status/...
4170 Where I live there are only two tristate points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texhomex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston...

There are no restaurants at either point, just a marker.
4170 Trike wrote: "You win a date with Lem the Dragon. Any restaurant of your choosing in the tristate area. "

Which tristate area? There are dozens of them in the eastern US. What about us folks out west?
4170 The predictions page is

https://challonge.com/swordandlaser20...

Unfortunately, if you didn't save the URL for your predictions when it was presented, I'm not sure if you can them again.
Feb 23, 2022 06:57AM

Feb 23, 2022 06:50AM

4170 The January/February 2022 Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter is available to download

https://www.tor.com/2022/02/23/downlo...
4170 Wow! 24 people have already made predictions at https://challonge.com/swordandlaser2022

Does the best prognosticator win anything besides bragging rights?
Feb 22, 2022 09:17PM

4170 Here's a Goodreads list of the March Madness picks...

2022 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
4170 If you keep track of your books on Goodreads, here is a list to see which of the March Madness 2022 books you have...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Feb 20, 2022 04:38PM

4170 Tonight is the finale of Around the World in Eighty Days on PBS. I don't recall ever reading the book so I've just started.
Quick Burns (2022) (753 new)
Feb 18, 2022 12:42PM

4170 GRRM news...

Wild Cards comics are coming to Marvel, June 2022!

https://www.gamesradar.com/george-rr-...

Shooting for HBO MAX series House of the Dragon has wrapped.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2...
Slow Burns (195 new)
Feb 18, 2022 10:00AM

4170 A look inside the private library of Umberto Eco

https://youtu.be/Czc_KjWji8E
Slow Burns (195 new)
Feb 18, 2022 09:56AM

4170 Ok, here's my first contribution to Slow Burns, a reference from Andrew Liptak's latest newsletter, for those of us with TMTBR (Too Many To Be Read) books...

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
an essay by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary

My antilibrary isn't quite up to Umberto Eco's standards yet, but someday, maybe.
Feb 17, 2022 12:40PM

4170 Rob wrote: "We could call them SlowBurns?"

LOL Slow Burns is good.
Quick Burns (2022) (753 new)
Feb 17, 2022 07:35AM

4170 Do we need a Not News Quick Burns topic?

Bookmobiles from around the world are the focus of this Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/sta...

I like the Biblioburro and the Chevy 1300
Quick Burns (2022) (753 new)
Feb 15, 2022 03:29PM

4170 ‘Bloom County’ Animated Series Based On Berkeley Breathed Comic Strip In Works At Fox

https://deadline.com/2022/02/bloom-co...

"with the artist himself on board to co-write and executive produce"

“At the end of Alien, we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world stuffed with far worse,” said Breathed in a statement. “Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us.”