Hercules #12 is dated July 1969. The cover is another excellent one by Sam Glanzman, and the issue is again edited by Sal Gentile. The Hercules story this time is titled "The Wrath of the Gods" and…

This week’s round-up of newish releases from Langa Mavuso, Linda Sikhakhane, Fontaines D.C., Warren Justin, Schwabie, and CVBA. Therapy: The Other Side (Deluxe) | Langa Mavuso | Sound…

There’s a reason why bugbears are often solitary creatures (solitary meaning they don’t really hang out with other bugbears) and that reason is they are insufferable if you get two…

Thomas Moran (1837-1926) may be the most famous of the artists whose work is in the Santa Fe Railway collection. Born in England, Moran’s family emigrated to the United States when he was 7,…

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Beyond the Pale, Tannic, Landmark, Hidden, Secret Socials Amanda P. on Bluesky and at Weird Wonder Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice...

Good morning everyone! I’m heading to Essen today, which feels strangely surreal this year. Like if I wouldn’t see the new suit case I bought just yesterday half-packed on the floor in…

Wonderful little progression from Keinseier, a little beep of a rhythm slowly unfolding amid static and alternating chords. There are also these pauses where it suddenly shifts material entirely, to…

Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson’s 1951 Heroes Are Made is a comedic science fiction novelette. First published in the Raymond A. Palmer-edited Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1951, Heroes…

University library bookshelf. Image courtesy RBSC Notre Dame.I'd consider myself an avid reader, having established a nightly reading habit over the last several years. I also follow various…

Here are some albums I’ve been listening to a lot lately. Hope you find something you like. They are all exceptional.

getting on the same page with different books

 We've covered I11: "Needle" By Frank Mentzer on this blog before back in Feburary 2019.  While high-level classics like Tomb of Horrors (S1) or The Temple of Elemental Evil…

クラウンズ・ド・ラ・シャットのサーカス兼劇場は、奇妙な一座だった。 観客の中にはショックを受けて途中で席を立つ者もいたし、毎回必ず誰かが金を返せと要求した。 同じ夜は二度となかった。 というのも、このショーは本当の意味で終幕へ向かって進んでいくのではなく、組織されたアナーキーとなって、ゴールラインへ向かって崩れ落ちていくようなものだったからだ。…

Wrote this little long to practice some fingering and chords. https://youtu.be/wS9jZ-QJmfM https://youtu.be/wS9jZ-QJmfM This post (Song - Hello Hollow) was last edited 1 day ago .

Words to My Life’s Song by Ashley Bryan with photographs by Bill Meguinness Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009. 58 pages. Review written September 23, 2026, from a library book. Starred…

A curated list of cyberpunk Japanese anime and OVA and Western animated films and television cartoons.

The new Spacing Magazine arrived in my mailbox today. Can you imagine how excited I was to discover THIS while flipping through the pages? Definitely Thriving is on sale at the Spacing Store. Toronto…

Seventy-five years ago, this couple were enjoying some new records, thanks to the foresight of their local dealer, who used direct mailing to drive record sales. They were pictured in the October…

Book review for The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I rated it 4.5 stars. This fantasy/mystery novel was the 2025 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and a rather fun romp of a book that…

Don’t you have time to read books? Leave a book in your kitchen table. This way, when you’re done eating, you can steal a few minutes from your routine to pick and read a book. That’s the perfect…

This is part of my ongoing blog series where I use a random wikipedia article as inspiration for system agnostic TTRPG game content! The Real: Beer Distribution Game Let's pick out any interesting…

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A research trip to the enchanted forrest creatures of Marhenda. Entirely improvised and played live, nothing prerecorded. Used in this session: iPad with 7III Tap , Ableton Live . All synths stock…

Instead of dumping lore, ask questions that load it into your players’ brains.

Some night city vibes at your face. For full immersion do not forget to bring back speed to 90% We are floating man, we are floating! NARVENT ■ RECALL Continue reading...

Popeye the Sailor has had an immense influence on both American culture and world culture, and it would be easy for me to write an entire blog series…

Books that I'm reading and have read

Last time, I made a post which went through some general design goals in a semi-structured way. In this post, I want to home in on a concept: the behavior you reward is the behavior you encourage. In…

The song of the day for is “Night and Day.” About This Song “Night and Day” was written by https://www.coleporter.org/bio.html for the 1932 Broadway musical Gay Divorce, where…

tl;dr: Shuffle lands on Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged, a master class in pain bleeding into a microphone.

On the blog this week, we’re talking about useful advice as well as the other kind. Share your wisdom here. Friendly mid-month reminder: The audio book edition of A Gentleman in Pursuit of…

grlesque:Cap that says “I missed the eighteenth chord change of the Sankt Buchardi church performance of John Cage’s As Slow As Possible in Halberstadt, Germany which occurred on August 6th 2026, in…

The ambient composer’s 2018 EP is being reissued on vinyl by the Umor Rex label.

#31daysofoctober a little 19th century horror....adapted from my favorite short story... read it HERE: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4dec242280.html #play #yellowwallpaper <span style="white-

Swag and badges from Gamehole Con 2026. We were only home from New York for two days before Stacy and I turned around and drove to Madison, Wisconsin for Gamehole Con XIII. It was one of those things…

The Brass Junkies is back! For the first interview on the show in close to three years, I was incredibly honored to be joined by Gail Williams. You can watch the full episode on Gail’s artist…

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: 2027 Card Preview

There is a long tradition in American women’s popular music performance of using lyrics about romantic and sexual relationships as metaphors for bigger-picture social issues. As Angela Davis writes…

Started 10/10/26, finished 10/12/26Idoru,&#xa0;published in 1996, is the middle book William Gibson&apos;s Bridge trilogy. Like&#xa0;Virtual Light, it takes place in a world closer to our own than…

Creeping up on Halloween, I might as well get into the spirit with a bit about a dustjacket showcasing one of the many weird carvings crafted by horror and fantasy great Clark Ashton Smith. My…

This is one of my most prized musical possessions. It’s a rare 1996 released of a live set of music from Starflyer 59 covering songs from the Silver and Gold...

I wonder if this is the first time an economics book has been reviewed in the American Journal of Transplantation. Poetic justice: A review of moral economics by Alvin E. Roth Michael A. Rees "Alvin…

(14 Mar 2019) – Season 2 Episode 9 (Serial 209)

. As an outsider, European-based, I used to regard Moby Dick as a curiosity, no longer relevant in our time. The little reading I did years ago – it must have been in the 1970s – a few pages into the…

Before Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop and print-on-demand services, &#8220;desktop publishing&#8221; meant stencil machines and spirit duplicators. Mostly known by their brand names such as Roneo…

I&#8217;ll be performing my first-ever solo electronic set as nightmother this Saturday evening at the Circuits in the Woods festival in Brattleboro, Vermont. (Er, at least my first IRL solo…

This podcast appearance started with my reading Chris&#8217;s book Civilized to Death, which I recommend to anyone thinking that not pushing for progress means returning to the Stone Age, dying…

Hello folk, Well this blog (in some for or another looking at you Opus Maius!) has lasted long enough to see my first ever inq28 game back in 201 2 and now my most recent 4th event a few days ago 14…