Hopefully, it does mean a thing (at least one thing, anyway): The highly esteemed Mr Hendrix would have been entirely unsurprised by monopolistic ticketing practices in live performances (in all…

This blog post is the thirty-third in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here . The 48th World Science Fiction Convention held…

The latest installment of the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune, kicks off with Joyce’s daughter Joanna getting married. The wedding turns out to be pleasant…

Had my bud David on the show for Ep 2! D: Field Music - Hide and Seek to Heartache - Plumb (2013) R: Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin - Nothing Can Stop Us (1982) D: Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me -…

One of my personal fave underrated game soundtracks. This is the pairing of Iwata and Sakimoto a few years before they'd become internationally well-known for their Final Fantasy Tactics score. They…

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I run the library at a public high school (9-12, roughly ages 14-18 for the non-USians). Our school includes a Basic Media class, in which students produce a 10 minute news show for their peers each…

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Let's get this book back into print (Kickstarter link) Escape Everything! by Robert Wringham was first published in 2016 by Unbound/Penguin, the culmination of seven years of research conducted by…

Fun little thing. Vector the Crocodile doing noir detective voice is cute and nice to hear voices for characters who have never had them before.

The Golden Mean In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes by Nick Bantock Chronicle Books 1993 The Golden Mean is the last book in Nick Bantock's original trilogy of…

Alan Ritchson is great in these roles — particularly Reacher. There's nothing new, nothing novel, nothing terribly admirable about War Machine. 81 (Ritchson) loses his brother, he becomes an army…

Translated from Spanish into English by Robin Myers. Another IBP longlist entry. This book was okay for me. It's well-crafted and I enjoyed reading it enough to continue until the end, but I didn't…

Here are six new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients. All of these agents…

There is a new freebie at the Online LEGO Shop to celebrate Easter. The #40890 LEGO Easter Decorations features six cute and colorful ornaments, including a chicken in an eggshell, a sheep in a…

Today I came to know that the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth is being celebrated in 2026 with “Coltrane 100,” a year-long global event. Impulse Records, hosted by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on…

Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London hasn&#8217;t been on the TBR for that long (October 2024), but it seemed a perfect fit for this theme! I love seeing fandom and fanfiction appear in other genre…

Behold the shapely face of doom, Jared Padalecki.

The highly anticipated final book of the series, We Are Dragon, hits the shelves on April 9th, 2016, and it does not disappoint! This thrilling conclusion is a whirlwind of action, adventure, and…

Sebastian Fluent Enchanted Enchanted is the latest release from Hamburg-based artist Sebastian Fluent. With a crackly aesthetic derived from the sound of aging vinyl, Fluent’s track combines a…

This is recording of the weekly Top 30 show on early Cork pirate Radio City. The DJ is Noel Evans (Welch) and the programme was recorded from a new FM frequency of 88.4 MHz. It is partially…

The 2026 Oscars weren't really surprising. Considering how good "One Battle After Another" was, and how unlikable and annoying Timothee Chalamet turned out to be in the last couple of weeks, the…

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Three Days to Dead (2009) 405 pages by Kelly Meding Good hook. Evy Stone wakes up on a slab in the morgue. Ensuing funny scene with the examiner. We’re immediately invested in her character. In her…

My rec list for the Trans Rights Readathon!

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Au­thor: Jim C. Hines Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ See in goodreads Review: Good I guess. Sets up a mag­ic sys­tem but then there are ex­cep­tions to it, which is not great. Quick read.

And now for something completely different, as a famous comedy troupe once said. This isn’t like anything you have seen before. On the surface three school girls meet up in later life at the funeral…

Zach invited me to participate in the Movie Club host interview, even though I am no longer active participant in that blogging carnival. He also picked different questions for me, because the ones…

Bookpost Index The Author of the Acacia Leave s, Ursula K LeGuin LeGuin writes about ant language for a few pages. It’s good, unsuprisingly. Enchantress of Venus , Leigh Brackett DNF 63% Same series…

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Release Date: January 2026 RRP: $27.99/£24.99 2026 is shaping up to be the year of Bruticus as the “big bad battling” Combaticon combiner bursts his way into the Transformers Age of the Primes line.…

Web Novel: The Whole World is My Crematorium by Bikabi The story opens with seventeen year old Xiao YuAn stuck in a weird situation. He has 100 days left until he’s free from the system that has…

I've noted before that the offerings available in the HDTT catalog are a treasure house of the great recordings from the golden age of stereo. Yet again, Bob Witrak brings to us six new releases that…

The boats on display at Jellicoe are the beating heart of the festival. The quality and longevity of the craft is an extraordinary testament to two things. The passion with which Kiwis look after…

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Watched: Mar 15, 2026 Finally worked my way to the start of the Oslo trilogy. There is a lot of formal experimentation going on here, and you can see some of the techniques that get refined later on…

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Except for Unfaithfully Yours, these were all watched with the Super Saturday Movie Club on the purple OSR server, where we watch movies every Saturday morning. January 10 - Double bill: Sorcerer…

I recently spent a week in London, as one does. As I walked through the King&rsquo;s Cross train station, it struck me: if anything, it should be track 8 3/4 and not 9 3/4. Let me explain. In case…

For the Grizzly Gazette Bearblog Carnival – March 2026 “Your Favourite Meme” hosted by suliman Snapcube. If you know who that is, you probably already know where I’m going with this. If you don’t, oh…

NOTE: This week’s update is a transcription of a live interview done as part of&#160;the... The post INTERVIEW WITH JADZIA AXELROD ABOUT GALAXY first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

Watched: Mar 13, 2026 I missed Sinners in theaters the first time through, eventually watching it on HBO Max. Thankfully Bryn Mawr Film Institute brought back some Oscar contenders for limited…

I saw this at an out-of-town bookstore while I was on spring break and had to snap it up since I already read the other two books by Uketsu. So, Strange Pictures is the first published by the…

The uncanny timing and uncomfortable political resonance of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another likely helped the film win the Academy Award for Best Picture on Sunday night. The film was…

Vikram releases an expressive, soulful piano album.

Earlier today I stumbled upon an interesting little interview from the BBC with Brian Eno. Although I am quite familiar with Brian’s music, it is his brother Roger Eno’s albums I listen to more.…