Yes, even at the height of glam metal, we would post pin-ups of the worst offenders on our dorm walls because it brought a perverse Joy
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Yes, even at the height of glam metal, we would post pin-ups of the worst offenders on our dorm walls because it brought a perverse Joy
Thanks for the Fritz Leiber recommendation. It's new to me!
And then there are all the accumulated hours I must have spent just staring at Michael Whelan and Hildebrandt Brothers cover art
I still read (carefully) my Daw pbk copies of Michael Moorcock's Elric series
Good form!
Vinyl people, you know who you are. This Saturday the Bklyn Flea Fair returns to Manhattan @nypl_lpa
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James Talarico: “This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they are trying to control what we watch, what we say, and what we read.
This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture — the kind that comes from the top."
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The dog ate my abuse videos excuse
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds.
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Only thing cooler than a dramaturg is a group of dramaturgs talking about their art (free in NYC)
2026 Love, NYC Dramaturgs Celebration www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-love-...
Hate to sound like I'm begging, but pre-orders are incredibly important for visibility... so, if you're planning to get the latest in the Stella series, please consider ordering it now! Out very soon
Fresh Stella! Look out for The Murder Pool - classic
@stellablomkvist.bsky.social
with all the twists and double crosses anyone could desire. Pre-order now and get all the previous titles on Kobo, Apple and Amazon
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What Shakespeare said of Sir Thomas More and “strangers” as channelled over 400 years, through master and classical stage and film actor, Ian McKellen, in contemplation of our current troubles - youtube.com/shorts/uec_u...
Raven reviews-Paul E. Hardisty-The Hope
"I loved this trilogy, not only for its poignancy, urgency and prescient observations, but also for its energy and sense of danger that kept me completely engaged."
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Thank you, I always look to you for thoughtful analysis, much appreciated!
My latest at Dame. All of this is important. None of it is a distraction. Welcome to the wonderful world of a polycrisis where everyone is mentally and emotionally overwhelmed as our democracy experiences multiple organ failure. www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/04/a...
@samuel-bagg.bsky.social recently wrote a fascinating essay about how the problem with lots of things might be knowledge-based (people believing stuff that’s wrong or dangerous) but the solution is not more knowledge. It’s all about social identity.
Watch now:
Curious car wants to be friends
It’s free, but subscribe to @wired.com.
There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force. And force alone cannot last.”
— Hannah Arendt
As cruel as all of this feels, & it does. The cruelty is not the point. The corruption is. Keep exposing the fraud, we can topple the force.
The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...
Maybe Babette's Feast would be a better mood inducer
The American Weekly (5 March, 1939): Virgil Finlay's artwork for an article on the Sargasso Sea.
Argosy (June 24, 1939): Virgil Finlay's artwork for "Seven Footprints to Satan" by A. Merritt.
On of Virgil Finlay's illustrations for a 1935 edition of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Another of Virgil Finlay's illustrations for a 1935 edition of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Artist Virgil Finlay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/finlay... died on this day, so here's four pieces of his artwork away from the SF magazines: 1 from 'The American Weekly' (1939); 2 from 'Argosy' (1939); 3&4 for a 1939 edition of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream':
All the books and the cat too! I'm doing a similar project. I've moved three times since I started a family, finally, and only now feel like I can re-establish my collection. It's the kind of activity I savor, organizing the books on the shelf, so many memories attached to them...
