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Continue reading →: Tattoo ViewingMuch like my compulsion to read any t-shirt that happens to be passing by (spotted this morning: “Not all who wander are lost. Some of us are looking for cool rocks.”), I’m always curious about tattoos. If what someone wears can say something about them, then how much more is…
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Continue reading →: Pulp Speed RevisitedA few years ago, just about the time I returned to higher education full time and messed everything else up, I discovered one of Dean Wesley Smith’s blog posts about writing at Pulp Speed. He updates this every so often, or dusts off and reintroduces the original post really, talking…
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Continue reading →: Poetic Form AlphabetI haven’t contemplated this for a while, but I thought it would be a fun challenge for myself to run the alphabet this year, each letter represented by a poetic form attempted. I’ve noted before, although not for a while I think, that when it comes to poetry I’m more…
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Continue reading →: Star Trek and the Public DomainJames Blish and J.A. Lawrence (although Lawrence’s participation wasn’t well known at the time and it was Blish who got cover credit) adapted the original teleplays for Star Trek into short stories. The original teleplays, as in before they were produced, edited, or even filmed. And they’re fun, if just…
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Continue reading →: Q1 Writing Review
Or, How I’m Measuring Up to This Year’s Goals So Far Publicly, I only set drafting goals for this year. Privately, I’ve set some editing and publishing targets, but I consider these a lot more fluid right now and I’m not necessarily tracking against them. I am tracking against goals,…
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Continue reading →: SFS – Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden ZoneGoofy fun. Post-apocalyptic settings were common in the 70s and 80s, but this one isn’t on Earth. Instead, we see a failed colony called Terra 11 that’s descended into chaos and barbarism, technology slowly being stripped away to leave the remaining colonists with a harsh, subsistence existence with not enough…
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Continue reading →: Writing Report for March 2026
I got sidetracked by a lot of academics in March, which will probably happen again in April as I’ve still got the due dates for a project, a presentation, an exam, and a major research proposal between now and the end of the month. What I’m hoping doesn’t happen again…
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Continue reading →: Sports Opinions from a Non-Sports GuyIn a post earlier this month, I talked about how not being a sports guy, I still managed to have an opinion that to qualify as a sport there has to be an objective winner. Otherwise, it’s not a sport but an athletic competition. And there is absolutely nothing wrong…
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Continue reading →: SFS: Hell Comes to FrogtownI was entertained by Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live. Enough that I’ve seen the movie several times. Hell Comes to Frogtown won’t get the same number of rewatches, but it was fun. The premise is as simple as it is ridiculous. Some time after a nuclear war, 2/3 of…
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Continue reading →: SF Sunday: Starfleet AcademyTo quote the version of James T. Kirk from my least favourite iteration of Star Trek, “Buckle up.” There are apparently a lot of people who don’t like what is sometimes pejoratively, and stupidly, referred to as “Nu Trek” in general and Starfleet Academy in particular. Which is fine. No…
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