I made a post at the beginning of October about my plans for this month, and since we're halfway through, I thought it'd be good to check in and see how I'm doing. Books and Short Stories My plans:…

Featuring Arnold Bocklin, Arthur Rackham, Peter Haars, Helmut Wenske, and Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons.

The Power Game was the follow-up series to ATV’s very successful The Plane Makers (1963-65). The Plane Makers details the earlier career of rising tycoon Sir John Wilder in the British aircraft…

In the grand tradition of Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1962), Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brain (1967) or any of the countless Mexican horror adventures featuring the masked wrestler Santo, Night of…

[2009] And now for something completely different. Aquatic/tropical ambient gone wrong. Hazy and hypnotic. The ethereal surreal vibe insidiously gets threateningly cataclysmic. From the lo-fi…

Favourite stage direction: “A long tongue unfurls from Girl or Ghost’s mouth.” The post The Hungry Ghost appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

I finished although a bit rough around the edges the warband for the upcoming inq28 event the ruinations at Blacksands Monastery. Radical Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Darthur (a former interrogator of…

A massive car bomb goes off in front of a hotel in Baghdad, vaporizing the security guard at the front gate. The guard finds himself a soul without a body. An old lady named Elishva has been waiting…

Fiction: All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie was a lovely historical fantasy featuring an Icelandic trader who travels far from home and discovers he has magical gifts relating to ghosts, and…

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"Eddy Went to Spain" by Kate Jacobs Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you discovered in an unusual way? Eddy Went to Spain by Kate Jacobs A couple…

Exploring the history of the Hetherington & Berner company of Indianapolis and looking for surviving pieces and reminders of the company's long history around the city.

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The Social Reckoning (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • P ublished in The Davis Enterprise , 10.18.26

Another week in the books so let’s see what the world of metal has to offer this week. Hails! Carnation - death - Belgium Sépulcre - death - France Leadbelcher...

The back page of Dandy Comic Library #53 (published around early 1985) advertised the next two issues that would be on sale the following month, one of which was scheduled to be Violent Elizabeth in…

Many times have I gone on record that “The sheep detectives is my movie of the year, baa none”, but less often have I given the actual pitch. The premise of the movie is this: every night, Hugh…

TLDR: “Fascinating” This is the story of standardization – how the world’s shipping industries agreed on what the standard container was going to be and how it was going to function and…

I can’t sleep. It’s not unusual that I have trouble sleeping the night I play a concert. When I lay down the music starts playing over and I think about how things went. But tonight was special,…

The first half is all the books I read & recommend. The second half are books I started reading / read but do not think highly enough of to recommend (although some I had to finish simply because…

Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl # 1 Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition Release Date: September 10, 2020 Publisher: Dandy House Source: Kindle Unlimited Genre: SyFy, Dystopian Recommended By:…

Special guest Deb Chachra delivers a wild tracklist of old classics and big new sounds for a grey Octember morning.

I did editing for the intro adventure of a project that's now live on Backerkit ! It's a post-modern fantasy city setting inspired by Prague, full of cats, and the adventure is a complex story of a…

Reflecting on decades of fandom, chart obsession, and regret.

October 16, 2026 Collective of Worlds CAST: Cole Bland, Gen Seul, Cole Android, Gen Android, Peter Lumen, Dr.Lumen LOCATION: Dr.Lumen’s lab in abandoned zeite mining facility Z13 in the Arine Belt…

My attempt at buying a dream car and making it road-worthy again.

Art by Simon Stalenhag If there's a bright center to the Imperium, the planets of the Gorgonis Sector must be among the furthest from it. The sector's distance from Earth means it's out of the…

A long way from Melbourne, in my local library in North Queensland, I read Underground by Suelette Dreyfus, and it has captivated me ever since. It came out in 1997 and tells the true story of the…

A lil live set with 7III Tap. Now playing daily until I get booked internationally. Used in this session: iPad with 7III Tap , Ableton Live . All synths stock Ableton Live instruments. Video If you…

I made board books for my children. You can now buy the PDFs at books.kriskowal.com , for $2 each, and print as many copies as you like for your family and friends. A print-on-demand shop such as…

Highlights on buying profitable businesses, building wealth, ambition, and the question of how much is enough.

Excited to be performing at Live Coding Sessions at Amsterdam Dance Event on 21st October. I’ll be performing alongside MYNA, Sol Sarratea, deaxmachina, Den Ree, Jobi, joisujoisu and Lil Bleep.…

This book was a birthday present from site contributor Maddox von Ranke, our very own Dr Strangelove. I confess to having reservations about whether I would enjoy it: the intricacies of...

Very interesting idea! It could have been a little less… verbose, maybe? But it’s a very good thriller indeed! Rating: 👍Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in…

Again, for the fourth time, I got to appear on stage and shout More Acid at a crowd of people. This time it was in London at the Dublin Castle : The Dublin Castle is a pub and live music venue in…

JumpHero: Pilot premieres November 7, 2026. Everyone hit "Notify Me" right now!

Chipmunk Len Peterson Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1949 299 pages Claude Widgewood specializies in buns at Toronto's Modern Baker. He's an expert at adding just the right amount of cinnamon. The…

Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand (2007) 191 pages by Gail Carson Levine Disney Fairies #2 During the quest for the egg Rani promised the mermaid Soop a wand for her comb. Soop is getting…

It was 75 years ago on this date that I Love Lucy debuted on CBS. Most of us are familiar with the "heart on satin" opening we saw in syndicated reruns of the show, but that wasn't its original…

Remembering my first experiences with Magic: The Gathering

I’d forgotten we were even going to this until the day before (and then forgot again, at one point, on the day of). Sam booked this on the strength of a recommendation from Vito from Northern Ireland…

To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to bridge languages and be able to scale things across…

I've said it many times: I am obsessed with cohesive ecology when I do races and monsters. Overtime, I found out that using fewer humanoid races allowed me to do them much more solid, and have…

In the 70s and 80s, men seemed obsessed with legs. Pop culture was rife with men ogling womanly shanks as if they were prized hams. ZZ Top , Van Halen , and Rod Stewart (probably Mötley Crüe, too)…

Roll a d20, rounding down for repeats if the catch is no longer available. 1. Nothing bites 2. Trout 3. Mackerel 4. Carp 5. Old branch 6. Salmon 7. Old boot 8. Giant Catfish. Take 1d6 damage or get…

Read the full post at - Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson I picked up Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson on a lark at the library. It was during the PR hype for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and…

AI Summary: Weird Al Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement deal in 1990 because he believed it was ethically wrong for his young and impressionable fans. Yankovic stated that the deal…

Calendar: Year of the Wolf | Autumn Characters: Mr. Slime , Ms. Cat , Powerful Dog , Claw Location: Local Branch , Agglehorn Sea It began as a simple operation, carefully undertaken, until it…

I long since learned I don’t need to have a public vocal opinion about everything on the internet anymore, but occasionally things occur and I feel the urge to put my head over the parapet. The…

We played the twenty-fifth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here . The roster for this session was as follows:…