Somewhere deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, according to modern monster legend, a skeletal woman with unnaturally long limbs wanders the high-country forests, screaming bloodcurdling cries…

Books are a gift. Some of the best minds who ever lived wrote down their thoughts in the form of books, and you can often find them available for less than a tenner. When you stop and think about it,…

Listeners of ABC Radio National recently voted Cloudstreet, the 1991 novel by Fremantle based Australian author Tim Winton, to the top spot in the Top 100 Australian Books poll. Cloudstreet won a…

In case people were living under a rock or in a cave, the symphonic metal band Nightwish and Floor Jansen parted ways . TBH the band needs to call it the day. Tuomas completely ruined the…

A love letter to therapy by shroomsThis is a post pulled in via Letterboxd, find all of them here. Reviews are short and sweet and very subjective. I'm not a film-major, folks.

Q&A with Jeanie Finlay Stickers! On Sunday morning I read: The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide, The Nerve. It’s about the Teesside developments, the sudden sea…

22 new SF/F (and some others) books to add to your TBR

This is just an in-joke for me (and for you folks), but I’m pleased by the store sign in panel one, which is blocked by both a telephone pole and a word balloon. It says “Obscured Signs…

The 2026 edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival felt bigger than previous years.

...You should read the Wired interview with Nathan Fielder. It's very good. It's also behind a paywall, so do your best to see it, I guess. I have spent a lot of today thinking about the movie and…

You can't beat the smell of a horribly charred Cambodian in the morning, especially if he's been playing a plethora of Psyched up garage tunes in what sounds like an empty School hall on the…

Concept art for “Kasa de Koopa”, a variation of King Koopa’s castle appearing in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode “Mario and Joliet” (top), and the background…

Warning: this review contains lots of spoilers. Please go see the movie first. You Can See Everything is an absolute masterpiece. A delicate kaleidoscopic fractal of deception, manipulation, and…

My former colleague Hadi Hariri has recommended this book to me a long time ago. He left JetBrains last month, so I decided it is a good time to finally write a review. The book has been on my table…

Last updated: 1 day, 19 hours ago By Christopher Buehlman Reviewed By Oren Raynes Book 20 of 2026 The Writing I didn't mean to pick this one as a Halloween month read, but it works. The writing in…

I actually read an advanced copy of this novel this spring for a blurb (“I love everything about the Dame Polara series—the heart, the humour, the vivid and sometimes gritty Toronto setting.…

As a little girl, I fell asleep many a Saturday night nestled beneath guests’ coats tossed on a bed, listening to the strumming, plucking, picking, and bowing of familiar old songs.

Elizabeth Holmes’s Netflix documentary “You Can See Everything” was a huge box office success during its limited release: Still, it is Nathan Fielder’s confounding documentary on Elizabeth Holmes,…

Between contemporary travesties of Ibsen or the Greeks, and the endless "assembled research" ‎efforts of James Graham, Peter Morgan and the like, so much "new" writing for the British stage these…

Series: Standalone Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition Release Date: October 1, 2026 Publisher: Montlake Source: Kindle Unlimited Genre: Romantic Suspense A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated…

Wish you could learn how to see ghosts? These ritual games might teach you. Just be warned: Not all spirits are friendly...

<< First | <Prev | Next > << First | <Prev | Next > It’s important to me that you know: this comic has always and always will be made…

This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice . At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and…

This essay was first published in the print edition of The European Conservative There is a type of academic who can only get noticed by attacking the legacies of greater men and women, and a prime…

About listening to music while I work… Transcript

Here's another 2026 non-fiction release that took me by surprise: Houdini and the Promise of Youth: Monkey Glands, an Aging Body, and an Unanswered Question by Jef Stevens. Below is the cover…

Philip Glass is sometimes wrongly credited with composing the soundtrack for the 2014 biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking The Theory of Everything . This is because the theatrical trailer for the…

Sunday morning. I woke up, looked at my phone, and saw that it was 9:20am . This was solely by the Grace of God. I had not set an alarm when I went to bed or...if I had...I had somehow slept through…

Hold for close-up: I'll accompany 'Nosferatu' (1922) on Thursday, Oct. 22 in Plymouth, N.H. Last week I got the nicest post-show comment I've received in awhile. On Thursday, Oct. 15, after…

In space, no one can hear you scream about vampires.

Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected, all rights reserved.Another reposting by way of remembering San Noto who passed away on October 16, 2026. “Like most instrumentalists who also compose,…

Steve Cobb's "Must Dance" Playlist My birthday was last weekend and I started writing a blog post about how lucky I feel to have lived 74 years. At the same time, I realized that my blog has become…

The previous post began with a brief discussion of the 1997 one-shot Supergirl Plus #1 , an over-sized book pairing the title character with Mary Marvel. Despite how unpleasant that particular book's…

One of the tell-tale signs of a truly great album is that, even decades later, you still find yourself discovering moments (or even entire songs) you'd overlooked. Take 1997's epic I Can Hear The…

Catarina must deal with a belligerent patron

In the world of gloriously bizarre and indescribable recordings, PROTOPLASMA might belong in their very own brain melting category. Complete freak vibes activate - you're going to hear MELT BANANA,…

I had just finished a YA author’s latest audiobook, and I was letting it play out to the acknowledgments, because I’m one of those nosy people who wants to know everything about a person—including…

I think Ojisan ha Kawaii Mono ga Osuki. is a damn good show even if you're not grading on a curve. Read more

I feel somethin' so right doin' the wrong thing And I feel somethin' so wrong doin' the right thing Everything that kills me makes me feel alive And I feel somethin' so wrong doin' the right thing…

A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else - Anon

Despite all that you’ve heard, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger is not a wretched stinker of a movie. Despite the groan-worthy zany trailer heralding the impending doom of exploding…

Wallners Movie Stars I saw the Strokes perform at the O2 in London recently. During their set they performed the track The Adults Are Talking, which throbs with a kind of stringy krautrock-influenced…

The tragic final march of the Man of Faith. Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 5: Episode 7

When you want to tell your players about your unique setting for fantasy medieval campaigns, you need to be able to answer some basic questions. There are other versions of this questionnaire. This…

We’re looking at recaps from the Jealous Patrons Book Club’s read of Tyra Banks’s Modelland. We read this in 2023, so some references to current…

S omething in this week's listings that I've never seen before: a double-check mark (√√) next to shows that TV Guide says are "Of unusual interest." Anyone else ever seen anything like that? Or was…

From the department of pleasant surprises comes Obex (2025), a modestly produced tale of period […]

Someday, perhaps, I will purchase a Lydia Millet novel and hoard it for a rainy […]

Goes to show, matchbox cars aren't barbies.This is a post pulled in via Letterboxd, find all of them here. Reviews are short and sweet and very subjective. I'm not a film-major, folks.

In which I lay bare the Lichtenbergian processes involved in the completion of “A Bug’s Dream,” the third volume in the universally-beloved, award-winning** series the BugVerse Chronicles…