Publicul din România în general și publicul cititor în special pare să fie fascinat de Orientul Mijlociu. Multe dintre cărțile semnificative ale scriitorilor din Israel și din țările din jur, sunt…

My new horror novel, The H-Index, is coming out on the 1st September. As an indie horror writer all of the promotion comes down to you. But luckily there are so many services willing to take my money…

Too commercial for the artists, too weird for the suits - and a line from The Wire that names the whole thing.

Mutiny (2026) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for considerable profanity and strong, bloody violence Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • P ublished in The Davis…

In this Music for the Next Generation series, I usually introduce artists that I'm a big fan of and/or who have made a strong impact on me. Lana Del Rey is not one of them. I'd be lying if…

I 'd gladly follow her into any battle with this song in the lead- a beautifully infectious, somewhat quirky, and highly melodic song ( with a long convoluted history) as are many in Sinead's…

[NOTE: some of this post was written In Real Time as I got more information from An Important Personage Related to This Subject, so I apologize if it reads a little awkwardly.] So, speaking of Red…

A short post today to share a recent arrival in the form of another poetry pamphlet from the poet laureate, Simon Armitage. I’ve amassed quite a collection of his books and pamphlets, several…

If you were going to make your entire personality out of an album, Arcade Fire’s 2004 debut album Funeral is a good one to pick, these boys have great taste. That’s a wrap for Anthony and…

CREATURES ON THE LOOSE #11, May 1971Magazine Management Company (Marvel Comics Group) ♫Exchanging glances– Creatures on the Loose♫ Am I the only one that thinks of that tune every time they…

just put up a tribute on the Goofy Goober's webring page to commemorate his birthday today! Feel free to check it out and wish him a happy birthday!

Arvind Ethan David’s The Great Game is, as its subtitle declares, a thriller. Murder! While reprehensible, a sufficiently cunning homicide can present the great detective Sherlock…

Social isolation can mess with both your head and your sense of being connected to the world, and by now we’ve all heard about the loneliness epidemic. But solitude isn’t necessarily the…

What better way to return from a summer break than with the debut LP from a band that knows how to keep the summer vibes going? Remember The Freebies, who dropped a little single a couple of months…

This weekend will be the fifty-seventh iteration of Bubonicon, New Mexico’s premiere SF convention, held at the Marriott. I shall attend, and here be my schedule: Friday Aug 21 6:30 PM, Santa…

A teaser for an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness.” It seems to be a low budget effort by a very limited number of people… but these days that’s…

Not much to report as I've spent part of this week writing an introduction to the next Don Lawrence book, the fourth, to be reprinted by All Verlag in Germany. This one features 'Wells Fargo' and…

Some days I consider ‘Shake Some Action’ by the Flamin’ Groovies to be one of the great works of art in pop culture. The trouble I would have in proving this to anyone is that whenever I play the…

Baychimo – Magical Keygen Brilliant piece from Danish artist Baychimo (Frederik Meyer), from his latest full-length Personality Computer. The album is an ode to the optimism of nascent Y2K…

Hello, Internet, and good mornight to you all! My name is Taffryne, shoppekeeper of Midnight on Memory Lane , and it is my absolute delight to welcome you to the final post for this week's actual…

Hello, Internet, and good mornight to you all! My name is Taffryne, shoppekeeper of Midnight on Memory Lane , and it is my absolute delight to welcome you to this week's actual Tokusatsu Thursday .…

I attended an online Zoom presentation by the Lamplighters, the San Francisco Gilbert & Sullivan society, of three songs recently discovered (like, three months ago) that were cut from G&S's opera…

Margin notes from a used paperback I found in Istanbul, a 1980 Penguin edition with the previous owner’s name crossed out on the flyleaf and mine written beneath it in pencil, because this is a…

Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with creative artists working on various aspects of movie and episodic productions, it is my pleasure to welcome Jeanie Bacharach. Jeanie is a triple Emmy…

★★★★★ - Maria Konnikova: An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in the rest of us. Roughly structured around different phases of a con, and…

For my RSS subscribers (and, I suppose, LLMs), here is a new(ish) post that I published on Substack. https://thesammendelsohn.substack.com/p/every-movie-i-watched-in-2026-january Going forward, some…

Legal thrillers are like catnip for me, but throw in the race and gender power dynamics inherent to the Deep South and a hot button issue like abortion, and it's a no-brainer why this ended up being…

Chiwetel is divorced and depressed, living in his discount furniture shop, until he discovers a world beneath the world, with layers and layers of increasingly corrupted copies of the ground floor,…

We’re nearing the end of August 2026, and I figured it’s time I give up the pipe dream of writing a 2025 recap the way I envisioned a whole year ago. Some sections are what I did write over the past…

Plus a ton of new announcements, including Rhino’s Rocktober, three new Vinylphyles, the R.E.M. DSS, and more.It’s another brimming week of vinyl reissues, but before I get into that, a…

Tuesday night I made my way to the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT for the Bigger Than You Think Tour! The Sequel! Featuring 3oh!3, Bowling for Soup, and Simple Plan. It’s…

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a minister and one of the first modern writers of fantasy fiction. He convinced his friend, the Reverend Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) to publish the Alice…

Twenty-five theaters in America can show The Odyssey the way it was made. None of them are in Massachusetts. I found that out after I bought the ticket.

Note: None of the 100 screenshots I took do the performance justice, you just have to watch. This is a video of Japanese world yo-yo champion Hajime Miura competing in the 3A division of the World…

My third book, Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery comes out worldwide next month! You can pre-order it now!

Soon I'll be providing details about the new, expanded edition of my book When Television Brought Us Together , which has an official publication date of September 1. For the uninitiated, the book is…

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Level 5” I’ve noticed that when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make their most radical genre shifts, like their album-length forays into…

My review of SNW: "Level-Five Transporter Accident" is online now. I went into the long-teased Muppet episode expecting something appropriately absurd and genuinely funny, but it takes a different…

Almost all of Ivan Doig's novels are, like Doig himself, rooted in Montana - even when they stray out of the state. Prairie Nocturne takes as its jumping off point the communities of Two Medicine…

This is what AIDS is after all, isn't it [...]

In 2023 we were lucky to have the Grey Cup visit our house. We gathered the Argonotes Alumni Choir around my piano to serenade the Cup with a rousing chorus of Go Argos Go I had sort of forgotten…

Oh, this was just too much fun . #weirdAl #nprTinyDeskConcert |

This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Slow Burn was released on August 18, 2026. Amal Singh has come across…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** L et us tarry not... ...and leap straight into the action. I detect the tale in which…

The gameshow format exploded in popularity in the US in the late 1950s. The promises of instant wealth and exotic prizes combined with flamboyant hosts became a global phenomena, that has never…

Seven Seas Entertainment debuted the first collected volume of manga-ka Oshioshio's My Deer Friend Nokotan in 2020. Despite the series running for eight volumes and leading to an anime adaptation, I…

2026/08/20 Thursday I was working with my cousin this weekend, we were listening to this mixed playlist I made, a guy had recommended some modern [Brazilian] rap groups to me because I have no idea…

Back in the late 1900s when I started learning to play bass my practice setup was pretty simple. I had a combo amp that was too small to actually reproduce most bass frequencies and on top of that…

[1973] Hey! More of the great glam rock white disco sound. And what a sound. Hard as fucking nails. Lascivious. Electrifying. Agro. All sorts of echo drenched studio insanity. The toppermost psycho…