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The Cat Came Back (1988, Cordell Barker) Runaway (2009, Cordell Barker) Another good batch: two movies where a cow is on the railroad tracks. The cow makes a quick appearance in The Cat, while cow vs. train is the whole show in Runaway....
As I decompress from a fantastic trip to Snoqualmie Valley, I return to the publicity photos from Spelling Films International for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. This time, it’s two similar photos showing Laura Palmer...
I say this as someone who LOVES ketchup: a chopped cheese shouldn’t have ketchup on it. Or lettuce and tomato.
DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for November 2026, and here is everything related to the Flash. It’s a quiet month, and it seems that Jeff Lemire’s JSA series has ended (in hindsight, the end was hinted at in last...
August, 2024: I’m coming up on the tenth anniversary of when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and nine years since active treatment (surgery, chemo, radiation) ended. Since then I’ve been taking tamoxifen to suppress estrogen in my...
I have been blogging for more than half a decade now, and I feel it's important that I document/share my financial position, especially since I remain anonymous and I wish to remain that way. Income (based on 2025 income tax return):...
Around a month ago, I wrote an article about accessible approaches to the IndieWeb and meeting people where they are. I wrote about how writers who don't come from a technical background can utilize an already existing platform to focus...
Kamibashi Bridge at Nikko (Sacred Bridge) by Kawase Hasui, woodblock print, 15 x 10 (39 x 26 cm). The image of this impression of the print is from the ukyio-e.org site. Working in the shin-hanga style, Kawase Hasui had training in both...
This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, with fictional worldbuilding and historical...
CW: femicideThe capital is abuzz - rumour says that the poet Sapphon Delayer has murdered his wife, the poet Tinter Briar, in a drunken argument over royalties. Sapphon has been heard admitting the deed with his mercenary companions, but...
Finished Reading 2026: Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet 📚 I enjoyed this book. It was one I couldn’t put down, so I read it in a day. I really liked learning about his world and the idea of visualizing numbers is fascinating.
Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about “a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest”. Scott’s writing has been...
Komeda Coffee opened in our train station while I was in HawaiiWe tried to eat here at lunchtime but the line was kinda krazySo on a Sunday, we went when they opened at 7:00 It took some time for us to figure out how to order on the...
Summary from the back of the book:Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system,...
Set in a massive slower-than-light spaceship halfway between Earth and a planet called Hurriya, Mahmud El Sayed’s debut novel The Republic of Memory explores the relationship between language, politics, and culture in an Islamic society...