Just a brief note: We are back from Scotland. This was a combination trip - one to celebrate my wife and I reaching birthdays that end with zero, and one to attend Glasgow 2024's World SFF Convention. Pictured here: (L-> R) Seanan McGuire, Nnedi Okorafor, Naomi Kritzer, Erin Hunter, and John Scalzi discussing their cats.)… Continue reading Back from a Big Country
Category: General Thoughts
Nearly Oppressive Humidity
This is not the blog entry I wanted to write. My wife and I just came home from helping my best friend move his mother into an assisted living facility. Saturday was dominated by box unpacking, picture arranging, and getting her cat & SCA memorabilia in place. We figured Sunday morning would be similar. More… Continue reading Nearly Oppressive Humidity
The Last Rites of Spring
May. May is almost done. The lusty month of May has, well, proven accurate given the work I'm doing on behalf of my alter-egotist. And there have been a few days when May felt like pre-global warming May. It also felt like August - showing up early and unwanted with a half-drunk pack of cheap… Continue reading The Last Rites of Spring
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
Shifts, Changes, and Doubts
I've been looking over the last year. Had two new additions to the Publications Credits page. hey add to my catalog stories people can get to support small press (and small authors ^_^) which is not a small thing at all. I've shifted the focus of my photography to landscapes, and images like this one:… Continue reading Shifts, Changes, and Doubts
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
Biomechanoid Blues 