A classic Koontz mystery-thriller about grief, obsession, uncanny recurrence, and a missing woman whose absence keeps rewriting the story.

A short story that moves extremely quickly but is a fun romp. You don’t need to know anything about Pathfinder other than what the creature accompanying the protagonist is. I had to look it up…

Airplane Rider / Stop Sign by Air MiamiA few weeks ago, I saw Mark Robinson from Unrest/Air Miami/Flin Flon open for the Wedding Present at the Motorco Music Hall in Durham. Although the bill clearly…

Grrrnd Zero Algorave 2026 is happening right now and all night long, if you’re into that sort of thing. more info over on grrrnd zero LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE (I’m still not a huge fan of the name of…

Traditional music from Burundi, discover this Whispered Song accompanied with Inanga, by François Muduga. This track is available on Bandcamp as part of the “Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic…

Going to hyperspace? Not exactly... George Lucas had it wrong. No, I'm not talking about the prequels to Star Wars ! It was something much earlier. People could be forgiven for not knowing this, but…

Def Leppard Hysteria 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Get It At Discogs Where Pyromania had set the standard for polished, catchy pop-metal, Hysteria only upped the ante. Pyromania's slick,…

Photo by Tommy Lau Classic movie aficionados lucky enough to both be within a close distance of San Francisco and have some dough-re-me on hand to spend will get quite the treat when the San…

Joe Cannonball Lewis I've Been Honky Tonkin' Cattle CD (2006) * Jesse Elmo "Cannonball" Lewis (1924-2001) Born in Laurel County, Kentucky, Joe “Cannonball” Lewis grew up in Connersville and…

Counting down my favorite songs of the month in synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and adjacent genres. The post 10 best synthpop songs of April 2026 appeared first on Synthpop Fanatic.

Another busy week so I'm posting the Friday Fave on Saturday. I wonder if I should rename it the Saturday Special.Honestly, I don’t know how I’ve made it this far into my Friday Faves without…

Call it heartland Everett True territory. Call it a cleansing ritual. I spend the next morning mainlining Northern Soul – five CDs, immaculate grooves, total devotion – trying to process what…

Impressive visuals for the time, and slow paced. The opening segment is all still images with text boxes. The conclusion draws some I think for the time progressive parallels between witchcraft…

Instances of monumental awe are so rare, that they remain unforgettable. Only at a handful of cases have I had so rapid a transition from analytical to overwhelmed when first listening to an album,…

Translated from Japanese into English by Allison Markin Powell. Another mixed feelings read for me this week. This is a fairly short work of fiction about a few passengers on a train. It's about how…

Remember the last time you eagerly picked up a brand-new comic book with a shiny #1 on the cover? The excitement of a fresh start, a new story, and a chance to jump in without prior knowledge is a…

As far as I’m concerned, the story of Jessica Jones ended with Season 3 of the Netflix show. To hell with this whole Daredevil Born Again bit, and all the spinoffs that dribble from the corner of its…

A Louisiana detective procedural parody where Corrosive, a philosophy-obsessed investigator, monologues about time, meaning and death to his exhausted partner driving through industrial wasteland.

Lonely war veteran Major Johnson while doing his best to be neighborly and social finds himself through utter chance implicated in the death of an 11 year-old girl he picked up as a hitchhiker. Two…

County Roads, Take Me Home My phone served up a cover version of this John Denver classic as I was chauffeuring my wife around yesterday. Something about the lyric hit me in a way that I'd never…

The month of May is all about Star Wars Day and Star Wars in general, but there are also some new LEGO sets in other themes and categories. So let’s see what’s new! As far as May the 4th…

Battlestar Galactica was missing in action, but it's back! Celebrate the streaming return of the ragtag fleet and check out a preview of the book I'm writing about BSG

5.2.26 - I love Louis CK I'm rewatching Louis CK 2017 and I realize that I find his stage performances to be very comforting. I don't care what he did. I think on balance, we're better off that he's…

What we're talking about when we talk about the end of the world.

This was originally a description of a post in my FurAffinity, which got so long that I had to make it a journal. I have a fucking website, where I can do whatever I want, so this is the definitive…

Au­thor: Scott Pratt Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ See in goodreads

Listened to Lindsay Buroker's podcast version of THE EMPEROR'S EDGE because I prefer this narrator over her fave narrator, who I don't really vibe with. Will continue onto the next book, and likely…

“I have never personally referred to myself as a star. When asked I always say, ‘I’m an actor, a working actor.’ I think the term ‘star’ is a vastly overused…

Because there’s more than the Orange Man that spills over the Atlantic! Agitpop by The Iron Roses . I had the pleasure to see them live at the Reconstruction Tour last year . Ben by Macklemore whom I…

I’ve faithfully participated in The Ashland (Massachusetts) Library Annual Romance Festival* for years—2025 excepted, since I was in London at the time. But this year I’m in Massachusetts, and…

There's a telenovela I started watching called Las hijas de la señora García . My Spanish still isn't that great yet, so I mainly enjoy it because it's a show I can actually understand. The…

Comic: May 2, 2026

I can't believe it's already May. I finished three books in April. Farewell, Earth's Bliss - DG Compton 24 convicts are exiled on an automated ship for a one-way trip to Mars. Along the way, new…

Rubber straps used to be a staple of anime merch. Here's how manufacturing costs and oshikatsu trends have contributed to their popularity loss.

Sadly I don't have the whole Mackenzie singles page, nor do I recall where it came from (the year must be a

Flaming Sword

Movie The Darjeeling Limited (2007) I love Wes Andersen and his movies so much I love how his characters are all flawed and sometimes even detestable but you end up caring for them anyway. And every…

test post about Akira (add picture, review, etc.) There are stories you like , and then there are stories that totally rewire your taste. Akira did that to me. I don’t mean “rewire” in the casual,…

The Checkout Counter #41 somehow i haven't had any hay fever symptoms this year, so i've been able to enjoy spring much more. sunshine and pleasant temperatures are nice to experience, who…

I wouldn’t have guessed it but, looking back, it seems like April’s music was a pretty downtempo affair. (Maybe a way to counter what felt like a hectic, harried month?) We’re well into bike season…

"I try to be totally different" , said Bad Boy Butch Batson, a 28-year old food equipment salesman from Greenville, South Carolina. Butch’s recordings began circulating around Greenville, SC, in the…

My professional breakthrough happened in 2010 with the publication of The Dead Women of Juárez . It made a big splash in the UK and was nominated for the first of four Crime Writers’ Association…

Inasmuch as Wild Things uses the humid deliria of South Florida to serve as a representative paradigm for the vulgar desperation of American life as a whole, so too does it presciently use Sam…

Welcome to part 109 of my Never Ending Mixtape where the latest additions take us from 4,852 songs to 4,934 with the addition of The Dardanelles by Glass Cheques - a glorious burst of sunshine indie…

Link back to manga page: https://hym.neocities.org/more/manga# Gal oshi JK is a very brief 1 volume yuri that I started following last year. It’s a very lighthearted manga that is mainly about a…