Undulant Fever

Roger Corman screwed it up. Tim Story screwed it up (twice!). Josh Trank screwed it up. Clearly, it's way too easy to screw up making...

[note: This piece by me first appeared, in slightly different form, as a reply to a comment in Mike Glyer's fannish newszine  File 770  ...

The recent trashfires at Twitter have gotten me off my sluggish ass to set up a new social media account at Mastodon earlier tonight. Here...

MICHAEL'S CRAG is an 1893 novella by Grant Allen, a popular Victorian writer of fiction and non-fiction alike. I came across it via my ...

Most of my social media has been via Twitter for... a while. But occasionally I still feel the need for a longer format.  And, somewhat less...

My old high school's 50-Year Reunion (delayed a year by the pandemic) is upcoming in October. Received an email about it, with a link to...

Hilde and I have been watching old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies from the 1930s & '40s, via DVDs from Netflix. Not all were availa...

Hilde and I were able to get Covid-19 vaccine shots recently. After spending the last year of our lives in mostly a holding pattern, we may ...

So one of the things writers are supposed to do is publicize their work, and one of the ways to do that is to put a year-end roundup of publ...

I just finished reading an early (1955) Ed McBain novel (written as Richard Marsten), MURDER IN THE NAVY. Some nice noir elements (the naval...

Having watched the "Hollywood" mini-series from Netflix, I came away being both very impressed by many aspects, but uncomfortable...

CurtStubbs passed away September 14, 2019. He’d been a friend to many, and to Hilde and me for over forty years.  We didn’t see Cu...

In the same vein as my occasional "The Brave Free Books", I'm hoping "One-Buck Book Review" will turn into an ongoin...

Among the papers of our friend Anne Braude, who passed away in 2009, I found a small pamphlet, a single folded sheet yellowed and brittle ...

2018 READING (For some reason, the first line of each paragraph is longer than the rest. Looks okay on a desktop monitor, but on mobile ...