Moving along slowly in the Phoebe Bridgers' universe of sounds and songs on a rainy day: Mostly done within a speeding vehicle of some sort. It's an immersive experience. Headphones might help, but…

In 2016, the IOEA (International Otaku Expo Association) and JMAG (Japanese Association of Manga Anime Game Creators) published Tokyo Pop Guide , a 108-page guide to travelling in Japan for…

The final album by the Spanish war metal horde didn't diverge even to the slightest from delivering exactly what was expected, and exactly at the same manner: bestial chaos in reverb and echo. As…

The Shards? More like The Sharts, am I right? And that might seem like a low-effort joke to make to open this review, but I’m only trying to match the energy that Ryan Murphy brought to his…

This was the last of the Hugo Novels, which the library system finally got to sending me an ebook of. I feel like a bad SF fan for saying this, given all the rave reviews, but I hated this. While I…

This is a cross-post from my Sound Club music club, where I regularly share an album for listening and discussion. Check out the club here. Secret Machines were one of the first artists I discovered…

 Gryffin Murphy - Twig's Traveling Tomes - Published by Zaffre (8 Sept. 2026) - ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1806171521 - Hardback - Age: 9+A witch with a magical affinity for books who owns…

It is, of course, shot beautifully and it moves with incredible pace for such a long, miserable movie. But it always feels kind of uncomfortably caught between the spy thriller and the serious period…

My husband and I recently watched The Adventures of Buckarro Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It’s a movie that has been on our Movie Watch List for quite some time but I don’t think I would have…

It’s Anthony and Blanche guest week by Sfé R. Monster! If you don’t already follow Sfé’s work, now’s a great time! They have a Patreon full of incredible art and comics!…

The Expanse is a series of nine science fiction novels and a collection of nine novellas in the space opera tradition, set amid a politically tumultuous future in which humanity has colonized the…

We recently read The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut in my AI Book Club. This was our first work of fiction, though much of the text is imagined biography, so not really traditional fiction. It reads…

GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING #1, August 1974 Marvel Comics Group Another of the dozens of “Giant Size” Comics published by Marvel over a year. It’s the only one to my knowledge with a title that…

The big news I’ve been alluding to is that The Cloak and Its Wizard is getting included in a special Storybundle of books. What makes it special? Well, for one, it’s all SFWA authors, so…

At the library, there is a scifi book club and their monthly picks are often really intriguing. This month it is “I Contain Multitudes” by Christopher Hawkins. The premise really drew me in- a woman…

My review of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”.

Short bit of lore about gnomes. For/from a friend.

This is the full pool of cantrips and spells a level 7 Warlock with the Archfey patron can pick from. Covers the core Player's Handbook Warlock spell list plus the Archfey expanded list. Sourcebooks…

O m last post about Books I mentioned how hard it is to find something to read, luckily I still manged tofind a few gems here and there.

September/October 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Vol 121, No 3 & 4) 5 • Rutger and Baby do Jotenheim • 22 pages by Esther M. Friesner Fair. Rutger and Baby get lost and run out of…

Really enjoyed it, weirdly relatable and kept coming back for more. I'd seen the movie of the same name at the cinema back in 1999, and I remember Matt Damon as Ripley, but I didn't remember the…

My last post asw about the band Coffin Break, and I mentioned that after recent discovering two of their albums released in the early 90s by Epitaph Records, I decided to look at the label's…

Off-Duty in the Hallway #6: Double B.L.T Alert! Notice: Any similarities to persons living and/or dead is definitely intentional. The above comic panel is fan art. It is considered fair dealing for…

A good heist film targeting a big shipment of RAM chips would be very 2026.

Peter Donahue interviewed me about my LEGO colors book.   The post LEGO Colors Interview appeared first on Christoph Bartneck, Ph.D..

Hey, did you get this? https://largshirepress.itch.io/largshire It's free at the moment. If you like lore, I also wrote this. https://mybook.to/Amaryn It's also free at the moment. Here's a sample.…

So I finally visited the Oh Joy Sex Toy website website! It showcases 18+ comics from various authors. Think less ComicFury and more... website that features a lot of guest comics? The AMAZING thing…

A near-Herculean feat of transcription, if I do say so! Read it here.

“Fogust Groove” is a mixtape I made of a bunch of yacht rock and blue-eyed soul I played for my kids while we were driving around the coast of California last week: I first heard these songs as a kid…

An astounding performance by Cory Wong, Joshua Redman, and more: [YouTube embed]

Signing queue, flying books, running man, immense flagstones. Observed in a corridor at the Edinburgh festival, where I met two men whose specialism was Disaster Theory & we spoke briefly about…

Feeling Alright: The Complete Nancy Pulsations Concert is a scorching-hot live show from the blues-rock legend.One of the standouts of 2026’s Record Store Day was the release from Elemental…

Don't Say Good Luck (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for thematic material, fleeting profanity, teen drinking and mild sexual references Available via: Netflix By Derrick…

Genre: Death/Grindcore Country: Czech Rep. Year: 2026 1. Called To Jigoku 2. Verdict Of Enma 3. Aka Manto The Last Wipe 4. Hitobashira 5. Dekachin Kanabō 6. Jorōgumo Lullaby Of Silk 7. Amabie Drawn…

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me

Trust me #122 Like A Motorway by Saint Etienne Released in May 94 and (inexplicably) reaching only 47 on the UK singles charts, Like A Motorway is one of my favourite songs by Saint Etienne who come…

As podcasting itself began to grow during the 2010s, the audience for Last Podcast on the Left expanded alongside it. The show became particularly popular among listeners who wanted detailed…

“They may say I can’t sing, but they can never say I didn’t sing.” –Florence Foster Jenkins. Mrs. Jenkins was a socialite in NYC, I believe, who was quite passionate about singing opera. She had the…

Gods, Police, and a Porsche

When I was in grad school, I was briefly friends with the students in the year above me. For some reason, my year was full of people who didn't want to get together and do things, and I wanted to do…

I wanted to build a custom action figure of Han Solo after he had been freed from carbonite in Return of the Jedi (1983), because I don’t like the “Last 17” version of Han Solo in…

2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ultraman franchise, and whilst there might not be any big projects like Shin Ultraman in the immediate pipeline to celebrate that doesn't mean Tsuburaya…

Time is irreplaceable. How you decide to spend it means everything. The House Of Dragons recently wrapped up season three. A surprising character was the clear MVP. Roderick Dustin (Roddy the Ruin),…

The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian has been on my TBR for…a very long time. So long I can’t remember how long, unless I go blog-diving. Part of the issue was I was having trouble…

He may strike a passing resemblance to David Koresh , but Paul Kelday made

David Sedaris, Deep Sea, Ocean Photography, Leigh Bardugo, The Magicians

Guest post from my wife about The Politician

Almodóvar in crisis? Almodóvar repeating himself? Did Almodóvar make a boring film? What are you talking about? ‘Amarga Navidad‘ (‘Bitter Christmas‘ in the English…

Do you know who Rick Rubin is? He’s the author of the mega-best-seller THE CREATIVE ACT … and also “the Godfather of Hip-Hop” and facilitator of many, many hits, working out of his Shangri-la Studios…

Sallow Moth: Hydrophilous BroodOut 24th July on Willowtip Records Surrealist brutal death metal redrafts elements of ‘Obscura’ and post 2000s Suffocation, but as with most contemporary avant-garde…