Book Report: Thud!
As often happens when I am in the library listlessly looking for something to read, and not being particularly moved by anything, I checked out the latest Terry Pratchett. In this case it was Thud!, a Watch book, and it…
Stiles/Market: The Modern Gd (part the second)
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Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. Chapter Eight, “The Modern Gd” One thing that distinguishes exceptionalists that pay lip service to pluralism from actual pluralists is that the exceptionalists are eager…
Book Report: Time Stops for No Mouse
Michael Hoeye appears to have self-published Time Stops for No Mouse and somehow convinced the local bookstores to give him shelf space and even push the book quite a bit. And when you live in Portland (OR), and your local…
Stiles/Market: The Modern Gd
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Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. Chapter Eight, “The Modern Gd” First, let me get this out of the way: Mr. Stiles begins and ends the chapter with what he considers…
Book Report: The Final Solution, a Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
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I didn’t get it. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
Book Report: The Cure
Your Humble Blogger is, as Gentle Readers will be aware, a fan of Young Adult specfic. Well, and it isn’t the Young Adultness—Farah Mendlesohn, more or less correctly, uses YA as a derogatory term for the sort of Moral Introduction…
Book Report: Sister Emily’s Lightship
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You are probably thinking to yourself, Gentle Reader, something like why does the silly bastard read books of short stories if he’s just going to whine about how he doesn’t really like the short story form? Aha! Tricked you. I…
Horny, er, in a sense
Gentle Readers, Your Humble Blogger needs your help. I’m making a mix, and I know I’m missing some songs, and I can’t come up with what’s missing. It began, as my mixes often do, when the Shuffle played two songs…
Kong is King, more or less
Well, and Your Humble Blogger saw Kong. And it was … long. Really, really long. It wasn’t tedious; there was a lot of stuff in there, and most of it was entertaining and well-made, but by the time Kong stands…
Stiles/Market: The Ozone Hole
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. Chapter Seven: “The Ozone Hole” This is essentially thirty pages about how corrupt the world of Big Business is. He gives several good examples, some…