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Part Three VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, or "The Ghost and the Grimdarkness!"
Trigger Warning: I don't really have a good handle on when or where to use trigger warnings, but there's a rape scene in this part of the book, and I'm going to discuss it, so I figure it's only fair I make that clear up front. It's Part Three, Section XI, so the segments before that are fine. Well, relatively speaking ( Read more... ) -
A Weekend at the Books.
This week in "Mike Read a Book", I finished off two books by guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Not long after the show ended, Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy got into the book-writin' business. I don't think I realized this until several years later, when I started buying MST3K videos off Amazon, and it would start recommending their books ( Read more... ) -
The Onion
I'm not saying I'm offended or anything, but the Onion's "Royal Baby as Lovecraftian Horror" gag really isn't funny at all.
I mean, I get the idea, but they've been hammering on this for the entire pregnancy, and now they've got like six different articles up when they really only needed one for the punchline. It's like a Family Guy running gag ( Read more... ) -
Yeah
I went to IHOP this morning. No particular reason, I just wanted to celebrate having the day off--H^H^H^H getting called in to work night shift ( Read more... ) -
Injured? Lawyer Up.
I've been seeing billboards around town lately with an ad for some attorney. His slogan is "Injured? Lawyer up." This seems kind of dumb to me, since the phrase "lawyer up" is often used in derision. Like when someone tries to sue their way out of a relatively simple problem instead of facing it more directly ( Read more... ) -
Victory!
On June 10, I finished Albert Cotton's terrible book "Chemical Applications of Group Theory." You may recall me writing about it earlier this year, when I hit the halfway point. So I've already been over why I read it and why it sucks so bad. I don't have a whole lot more to add, except to say that the second half really reinforced my theory ( Read more... ) -
Physical Chemistry: The Revengeancing.
So this is something I've been meaning to get off my chest ( Read more... ) -
X Minue One
Years ago, I subscribed to a podcast that put up old episodes of the radio drama "X Minus One". It was a science fiction anthology that adapted short stories from the genre. From what I've read about the show, it wasn't particularly notable in the history of radio, but the production values are pretty good, and if it didn't have so much 1950's ( Read more... )
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