Both Shira and her husband Josh are owned by the Y-S corporation, so it is the corporation that decides to award sole custody of their son, Ari, to Josh when they split.

Click on any photo for truly lovely hi-res photos (by Brian Gee, visit his website and Instagram and show him some love, and FYI photos were taken with a Sony A1 Mark II with a Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM…

Once more, Tom Roberts has worked his magic. Feast your eyes! (The cover here is followed by the rough and then the line drawing - both stages that cover artists share with the publisher art…

Despite their differences, the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy (at least as presented in WFRP 1e, which is the extent of my knowledge of it) and the World of Greyhawk have enough similarities, I…

I’m a long-time fan of Edmond Hamilton’s science fiction, and I do mean long-time since I was reading the paperback reprints of his Captain Future novels almost sixty years ago. But I knew he wrote…

Science Fiction Book Review ★★☆☆☆ I quit halfway though. I can't stand the characters. I just don't want to read about their angst and their emotional problems. I want heroes, not emotionally stunted…

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists. No newbies. One duo,…

My wife Maggie and I went last week to my friend Colette Paul’s launch for her new book, A Complete Success. (Check it out: Colette has a wonderful narrative voice, conversational in tone,…

Christopher Lee as Dracula. The idea of inserting Count Dracula into a groovy 1970s London setting was a potentially intriguing idea. Unfortunately, by the time Hammer Films produced Dracula A.D.…

  What if culture is the software that determines how well the human “hardware” of individuals, organizations, and societies performs? That is the intriguing premise behind Mark Bitz’s ambitious…

I listened to Troy rather than reading it, which is how I imagine Homer's audience would have received the story: one performer, many voices, and a long recitation. Fry isn't improvising in…

Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh published 1955 On a recent post , blogfriend Jan W put this in the comments: The f

Okay so! I was watching Dragon Ball Super Beerus episode two and HOLY SHIT that fight was epic! I was worried because episode one was EH. But episode two stepped it up a notch! If you can get passed…

Compare Here and Below If You Can Stand It ... 'Tis Another Spook Season --- Part One <img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1024" height="445"…

Hosted by Miss Airedale, AKA Phil Fowler, who used to saw people in half for us when we did Dr Calamari's Music Hall of the Macabre

Latest shiny links from a week on the web. For even more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival . Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by…

Today I am sharing a guest post as a part of the blog tour for Dreadnought by Robin Bennett. This is a near-future thriller and Robin&#8217;s guest post is about the frightening things he…

Evan Hunter was a Writer. He sold millions of books over a career that spanned more than half a century, producing more than one hundred novels as well as dozens of short stories and developing a…

Behold, our second two-vote-receiver in the favorite indie comics of the &#8217;90s poll&#8230;and it&#8217;s a title I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;re all familiar with: Gen 13 (Image Comics, 1994)…

Law 41 was about the person you replace. Law 42 of the 48 Laws of Power, Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep Will Scatter, is about the person on your team you would most like to see gone.

Happy, happy Monday! I'm excited Katherine Pew stopped by Watch. Connect. Read. to finish my sentences. We discussed her debut picture book, Charles Santoso, bats, Ted Fleming, and more. I wrote the…

The eight steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master haven't changed for me over the past eight years and I've used them hundreds of times to prep my games with several different systems. What I do

There is not one second of action or violence in The Russia House. It’s a very slow burn — mostly people having tense conversations — but I loved it.Set in the late 1980s, just as glasnost and…

Despite being told to hurry, James Bond changes out of his three-piece suit and into a country outfit for a debriefing at the Blayden safe house outside London. While James Bond's superiors, M and…

I don&#8217;t love N26. And this is particularly difficult for me to write. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, I have spent a fair amount of time writing and thinking about Necromunda as a game since…

Not long ago I stumbled onto Nene Royal, a young Thai guitarist busking in the markets of Phuket, tearing through metal and rock covers like it was the most natural thing in the world. She is so…

Since it isn&rsquo;t adding to the Goodreads account and this is an older book than the books I read, and it already has been said before, I think I can say the same things the other reviewers have…

At the conclusion of The Rats ( read my review ), London's mutant rat population had been eradicated by poison gas. Yet troubling questions remained. What if, despite the assurances of those in…

The past three Saturdays I have run a fantasy adventure game for five rambunctious kids, ages 9 to 11, one of whom is my son (aka, the Ringleader). Now I hear there is a player advice blogwagon , and…

If a GM runs systems where they call for specific skill checks (e.g., “give me a Computer Use check”), my experience — from both sides of the table — is that they’ll often develop biases in the…

can you imagine what it was like to be at the first performance of spem in allium in 1570 people must have been absolutely losing their minds

The reviews are in! My new book Amazing Astro Animals has been out in Australia and NZ for almost three weeks now &#8211; big thanks to everyone who&#8217;s shared a review so far. Amazing Astro…

A close-up of a record needle reveals its pointed tip, fine scratches, and tiny particles clinging to the surrounding surface.

October 18 2026 - 20:00 I need to watch You Can See Everything so fucking bad. I haven't anticipated for something like this since Deltarune probably…

Time to add a guitar tag. Here's a couple of practice videos https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 This post (Guitar Practice - hammer) was last edited 2 days ago .

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This week I finished: Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, by Brian Klaas: This book asked the big questions about corruption: Does power corrupt, does power attract corrupt people, do…

I'm watching the recent Oasis documentary on the Live 25 tour which I was fortunate to attend when they played in Chicago. Similarly to how I was at the show, I'm tearing up while watching this.…

A long time ago I remember people talking about one of the things that made star wars great was the thought that went into little things like, the X-Wings were dirty. As in this was a rag tag bunch…

In a recent conversation about genre, my friend challenged me to come up with specific examples instead of speaking in vibes. OK fair point 😉 I decided I&#8217;d try the same thing looking at how…

As a huge fan of the Friday the 13th franchise, I was looking forward to the new Crystal Lake series. I was especially excited that they were not only going back to the roots of the original film,…

A small historical library of my life.

Oh man, I didn’t know what this movie was about when my wife put it on. These stories were hard to watch and that makes me sad in that it echoes so much of the what happened and what continues to…

Manthan which means churning is a 134-minute 1976 film was a transposed narrative of the origins of a dairy cooperative movement that transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world's…

Memory's Legion is a collection of short stories and novelettes in the Expanse universe, largely taking place between the main series novels. It tells the stories of a few side characters, before or…

It’s OK to re-read books. If you only want to show off a book count, re-reading sounds like a waste of time. But I usually find myself coming to a good book more than once: The first time because the…

Reflections on McKenzie Wark&rsquo;s Reverse Cowgirl