Award winning authors spend 60 minutes talking about their cats. Glasgow 2024 is my fourth world SFF convention. It was the capper to a vacation where we spent a week driving around the Scottish highlands, from Sterling to Perth to Inverness and the Isle of Skye before returning to Glasgow. And - all love to… Continue reading Dreaming the Future in Scotland
Category: Inspiration
Wish I Knew What You Were Looking For
Ever have a song live in your head? Not just live there, embed itself into your neural patterns. An old song. A resonating song. It generates sympathetic vibrations in your skull. You hear a word, or see a bit of clothing, and the opening chords rise up in your head. For the last few months,… Continue reading Wish I Knew What You Were Looking For
Looking Forward – also, Alan Wake II calls me out
Mid-Week Winter Blues Time has screamed by - February came in with a drunken mix of freezing days and unseasonal warmth. It also came in with the completion of a two projects - flooring in the basement and a cleaning of the chimney. This President's day, there will be assembly of display cases and kitty… Continue reading Looking Forward – also, Alan Wake II calls me out
Welcome to 2024 – A To-Do List
OK, I will be completely blunt. The idea of creating a list of goals for the year outside of what has been defined in a professional capacity (i.e. 'the day job says you need to make x number of customer success plans and hold y number of meeting') has me in the following mood: Crow… Continue reading Welcome to 2024 – A To-Do List
Crying at Christmas – or the Ancient Magus’ Bride
I honestly should not have liked this show/manga. The basic premise sounds like the cringiest of urban fantasy books. An ancient fae mage purchases a young woman with magical abilities and declares she will be his apprentice... and his bride. In any other context, I'd be throwing this book at the wall/shutting off the TV.… Continue reading Crying at Christmas – or the Ancient Magus’ Bride
It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
It's November. Or, to my little on-line circle of cinema lovers, Noirvember. There's even a #Noirvemberchallenge out there on the Twitters. Today, I got name dropped by Christa Fucking Faust as we talked about our favorite cinematographers. (Yes, I'm a John Alton fanboy. There's a pantheon of great noir cinematographers including Alton, James Wong Howe,… Continue reading It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
October Memories
Has it been over a month? I need to write more. Well, here, at least I've got a picture of Howliday Inn up because it is one of my early October memories. Autumn is my favorite season. It wasn't always the case, though. In youth, it was all about summers. They were a relief from… Continue reading October Memories
Have You Seen This Bird?
No, seriously. With this weekend being the last gasp of summer (spiritually speaking - summer has devoured both spring and autumn in the Mid-Atlantic thanks to climate change) I went out to the Seneca Creek to take some photographs. I shouldn't have been surprised there were people out enjoying the creek - it flows… Continue reading Have You Seen This Bird?
A Sunday Kind of Love (with Destiny Cameos)
I’m listening to WPFW today - A Sunday Kind of Love. It’s part of my regular routine on Sundays I’m not playing DnD with friends. I watch a movie with Tellus (usually a horror film, but anything on the short side) and then I go for a drive. I work from home, and am on… Continue reading A Sunday Kind of Love (with Destiny Cameos)
Big Crimes, Personal Crimes: Vera
It's no secret my wife and I find comfort in British mysteries and thrillers. Especially from the north, like Shetland and Vera. Yes, we enjoy our Midsummer Murders and our Brokenwood Mysteries (I pray for Frodo's sanity every time I see him. He's been through enough!) But Vera, in particular, holds a lovely spot in… Continue reading Big Crimes, Personal Crimes: Vera
Biomechanoid Blues 