So it goes.

[eldritchhobbit]

Cool Things are Extremely Cool:

- Netflix Revives Western Longmire. Woohoo! I am one happy fangirl.

- The University of Iowa is digitizing 10,000 vintage sci-fi zines dating back to the 1930s. Fantastic!

- Three Calls for Papers of potential interest: 1) on Robert A. Heinlein, 2) on the Gothic and Racism, and 3) on "It's Happening Again": Twenty

Comments

[denorios]

The Longmire news has made me so damn happy! I'm just glad that these days that are alternative options for shows, like Netflix and Amazon, that aren't so reliant on advertising rates and viewing figures and age brackets.

[eldritchhobbit]

Yes! Yes! What you said! That's it exactly. Thank heavens for Netflix, Amazon, etc.

[gilda_elise]

The FX link to From Hell doesn't work, but, liking the movie so much, I'm looking forward to what they do with a series.

[eldritchhobbit]

Whoops! Thanks for the heads up. I've fixed the link. I'm with you: I'm excited to see what they do with it!

[travels_in_time]

Very sorry about your eardrums! I hope you recover quickly.

[eldritchhobbit]

Thank you so much! *hugs*

[jan_u_wine]

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about the Eustachiancatastrophe! Have a funky ear drum myself and (yeah) flying goes from 'okehhhhh' to 'not possible'.

I hope you can somehow find a way 'round that. Too much great stuff going on to be missing it!

[eldritchhobbit]

Thank you! I'm sorry to hear you've shared the experience. It's no fun at all!

I appreciate your encouragement very much. *hugs*

[jan_u_wine]

*hugs back* with all the tech they've got, surely they can McGyver a li'l ol' ear-drum.....

[sittingduck1313]

Regarding Heinlein, not sure if you read this. It really hammers in the point of his, "Specialization is for insects." In case you haven't read it, Heinlein makes a blink and you'll miss it cameo in the second book of the Grimnoir Chronicles. That series could be best described as if you plopped the X-Men in the 1930s, sucked out all of the whiny angst, and filled that massive void with dieselpunk and hardboiled attitude.

[eldritchhobbit]

That really does sound like a case study in specialization!fail.

In case you haven't read it, Heinlein makes a blink and you'll miss it cameo in the second book of the Grimnoir Chronicles.

Ooh! Thanks for the heads up. I haven't read this, but it sounds like I need to do so. I love your description of the series.