Sunday, December 03, 2023

What's In A Meme?

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What's In A Meme? In a fund-raising email, with the subject-line "Fight For The Memes", Christian Romero of the EFF Membership...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Man in the Picture and The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Man in the Picture and The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill by Karen S. Wiesner Susa...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Animal Facial Expressions

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A study at the University of Kansas Medical Center "discovered that cats use nearly 300 distinct facial expressions to communicate with...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Per Ardua

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Now this is interesting if you happen to want to be legally correct while writing about a naughty astronaut. Per ardua ad astra is the mott...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke by Karen S. Wiesner   In my...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Traditions

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has trad...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Your Shot?

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Whether the photo is of your wedding or is taken as you arrive at a glamorous event or awards ceremony (not that the latter two are mutually...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff by Karen S. Wiesner Just in time for Turkey Day! If...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Bad People Versus Bad Institutions

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In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly ...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Tatters

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Today's earworm is not a song about Tattoos, but the lyrics include "I'm in tatters ". Since the Supreme Court of the Unit...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Dune by Frank Herbert

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 {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Dune by Frank Herbert by Karen S. Wiesner In previous books I’ve reviewed for my “ Put This On...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Considering Adaptations

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That is, one adaptation in particular: CONJURE WIFE, by Fritz Leiber. It was first published as a magazine serial by UNKNOWN WORLDS in 1943,...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List}: The Ruins by Scott Smith

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Ruins by Scott Smith by Karen S. Wiesner Imagine a 523 page paperback novel without...
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Thursday, November 02, 2023

Scary Solstice

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I recently read a lavishly illustrated book about midwinter folklore, THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Jeff Belanger, featuring Krampus, the ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Double Takes

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Did you ever glimpse an attractively grizzled former President of the United States, dancing barefoot on a beach with a lady who did not lo...