God damn it…

I don't have cable, so I don't know - is there a thing called the Sushi Channel?  'Cause I have an idea for them.

Sigh.  I'd settle, actually, for rereading Anubis Gates again.  Then rereading Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather, then emerging from my house certain that nothing is anything like it seems, but that I could change it if I knew the right magic.

Schoepenhauer said "we buy books because we think we're buying the time to read them."

Holy moley.   That's a pair of books to mention for sure.  Anubis Gates is one of those,thanks for asking, that could benefit from a nice two-season HBO series.  Maybe three seasons.

I think a movie of Queen's Gambit has been in the planning stages for many years in one form or another.  I met a girl in the 80s who told me she had auditioned to be the hand model for the chess scenes in Queen's Gambit.

You know very well that websites are for manly outdoorsmen. 

Read Queen's Gambit, though, and you are forgiven.   Tevis was an amazing writer and, though I think Mockingbird is my actual favorite of his, Queen's Gambit is the one I read more often.
And I know next to nothing about chess, and Tevis writes so well that it doesn't matter.

"Next stop, Willoughby!!"

Nah, I think Rob Morrow's daughter spells it "Tu".

Not like I guess at this point GRR Martin  needs the money or attention, but Sandkings is one of the most brilliant and chilling short stories ever written in the history of the world.
You can find the story in the anthology of the same name, and other anthologies.

"Mr Knievel, are you crazy? That jump you're going to make is impossible, but I already have my tickets because I want to see you splatter."

This is as good a place as any to ask — what the HELL were Christopher Lee and James Coburn doing on the cover of Band on the Run?

What they're saying, basically, is that Parks and Rec is going to be starting again soon.  And of course I knew that, but somehow that fact is very exciting anyway

I'm a Lovecraft apologist from way back, though I certainly see his faults.  One of the things he was able to do, in several stories, was to wring true dread out of ordinary settings in daylight.  I mean, sure, a lot of nighttime creepiness, but sometimes a character is walking through the sun-dappled forest in New…

If you want to talk about Lovecraft being ghostwritten by Derleth, fine — but when he was alive, HPL ghostwrote at least one story for none other than Harry Houdini, who could escape from a straitjacket submerged in a coffin in a lake, but apparently couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.

Late to this, but K.A. Applegate, of Animorphs fame, just won the Newbery for her novel (under her real name, Katherine Applegate (the K.A. was for her, her husband and the many others who wrote Animorphs, as the article states).
Anyway the Newbery book is called The One and Only Ivan and it's very good.

And Fox WILL fix the show.  They'll retitle it "Fathels".

Martin Mull's not THAT old, or he would be calling them "Celestials".

Probably no one will know what I'm talking about ('cept maybe Ms. Eakin just because name recognition):  there's a band called Marah, and I like em a lot.  But — their third album, Float Away With the Friday Night Gods, is just… off.*  I think they had a personnel change or two plus they recorded in England (the band…