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FALLOUT [AMAZON PRIME Video]AMAZON PRIME Video’s new 8-episode series, Fallout, is based on the award-winning 1997 video game of the same name. China and...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #790: HARLAN ELLISON: GREATEST HITSCOVER DESIGN AND ART BY MATT LOEFFLER Harland Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and...
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LADIES OF THE 60s, Volume 1 and ORIGINALS: STILL THE GREATEST, VOLUME 11 1960-1962I was listening to 1960s music last week and these two compilation CDs stood out. Ladies of the 60s starts off with Marcie...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #171: THE STAR TREK READER II By James BlishBack in 2017 I reviewed James Blish’s The Star Trek Reader (you can read my review here ). I just happened to run across...
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SCOOP [Netflix]I’ll watch anything with Gillian Anderson in it. This Netflix film is a docudrama about the BBC’s Newsnight team scoring a...
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AS GODS AMONG MEN: A HISTORY OF THE RICH IN THE WEST By Guido Alfani” I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of...
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MAMMA MIA!: THE MUSICALDiane and I traveled to Sheas Performing Arts Center to see Mamma Mia!: The Musical. This the 6th time I’ve seen Mamma Mia! :...
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THE PIANO GUYS CONCERTThe mis-named THE PIANO GUYS –one guy plays the cello (Steven Sharp Nelson) and one guy plays the piano (Jon Schmidt)–started...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #789: BOMB POWER: THE MODERN PRESIDENCY AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE By Garry WillsGarry Wills is best known for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. But back in 2010, Wills published Bomb...
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AMERICAN DREAM By Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungI was a big fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young back in the 1970s and 1980s. But somehow I missed American Dream which showed up...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #170: WESTERNS OF THE 40s By Damon KnightDamon Knight is best known as a Science Fiction writer and a gifted editor. Knight edited dozens of SF anthologies. But, just by...
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WISH [Disney+]Having a 3-year-old in our house for a few days during the run-up to the Solar Eclipse completely changed our TV viewing habits. My...
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NOISE FLOOR: THE VINYL DETECTIVE #7 By Andrew CartmelCOVER ARTWORK BY MARTIN STIFF The seventh mystery in the Vinyl Detective series finds our narrator and his Special Forces trained...
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TELL EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN I LOVE THEM By Maeve HigginsCOVER ILLUSTRATION BY ILYA MILLSTEIN Maeve Higgins, a comedian who grew up in Ireland but now lives in Brooklyn, delivers an...
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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME [Netflix]In 2001, the Homeless World Cup was established. Each year, 70 teams of homeless men and women from all over the planet compete for...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #788: THE PARANOID FIFTIES: THREE CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY JOHN WYNDHAM, RICHARD MATHESON AND PHILIP K. DICK Edited by Mark HurstI was a member of the Quality Paperback Book Club for a number of years. Back in 1995, the Quality Paperback Book Club offered this...
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JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH: NEW WAVE HITS OF THE ’80s, Volume 5 & Volume 6“The series contained 15 volumes. The first five were released on 21 June 1994, and concentrated mostly on music issued between...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #169: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE HIGHGATE HORRORS By James Lovegrove“During the year or so while this particular book was occupying my headspace, I went through several life-altering experiences. A...
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WE SURVIVED THE SOLAR ECLIPSE!At 3:18 P.M. the temperature dropped about 10 degrees and it was like someone hit the dimmer switch. Within a few seconds the...
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HOW TO DRAW A NOVEL By Martin Solares“Jack Kerouac produced the 320 pages of On the Road in three weeks, typing out fifteen pages per day on a thirty-six-yard-long...
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COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOTIn a recent email, Jeff Meyerson mentioned that he and Jackie got the new Covid-19 Booster shots at Costco. I had no idea the Booster...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #787: CRIME & MYSTERY: THE 100 BEST BOOKS Edited by H. R. F. Keating“Some writers’ names may ring the dimmest of bells of none at all, and perhaps lovers of such tales as these can make...
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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FANTASY: ROCK CLASSICS OF THE ’70s & ’80sI’m not quite convinced these are “Rock Classics” as the subtitle claims, but there’s some good music on this CD....
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #168: DOUBLE SIN AND OTHER STORIES By Agatha ChristieWhile I still search for my copy of Agatha Christie’s The Hound of Death –highly recommended by Jerry House!–I came...
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STRAWBERRY JAM…OR RASPBERRY JALAPENO JELLY?While on our annual Easter trip to Ohio, Diane and I stopped in at Hartville Kitchen, a restaurant and bakery with plenty of homemade...
