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My Favourite People Review

My Favourite People and Me 1978–1988, Davies. Non-fiction. Like Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, this memoir has what I think of as a non-traditional structure. In this case, each year constitutes a major section, with each of Davies’s “Favourite People” during that year given a sub-section. Unlike ZSW, the parts that are not straight-ahead memoir are contextual, […]

Among Others Review

Among Others, Walton. Yes. Walton continues to perform reliably for me. My only issue with this coming-of-age story, set in roughly the same era when I was coming of age, is that there is so much nostalgia and name-checking that, when it was over, I felt like there should probably have been a bit more […]

Night Watch Review

Night Watch, Pratchett. Yes. This was my first Discworld novel, though its Discworldness made no apparent difference to my reading. Pratchett’s writing is really quite solid, and I enjoyed Night Watch quite a bit: engaging characters, likable and detestable as required; flexible setting; compelling story. I do not love Pratchett so much that I am […]

Half a loaf

Premise: (nearly) every time I provide an email address for an organization to reach me, it is customized for them: if I deal with Ford, they will send me mail at ford@[this domain]. This lets me see who has sold my address on to someone else. Aside: apparently almost nobody sells email addresses anymore, as […]

It wakes you up

A recipe for Orange Juice Surprise: Shake the orange juice jug to mix the juice, find out that the lid is on less securely than you thought it was. Surprise!

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Review

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: a Book, Oswalt. Non-Fiction. I neglected to check the title page, so I don’t know for sure, but I believe the primary title should be rendered ☐ Zombie ☐ Spaceship ☐ Wasteland and my own scorecard would look something like ☐ Zombie ☒ Spaceship ☐ Wasteland I had somehow expected this to […]

Daughters of Satan Review

Daughters of Satan. Awful. In the mid-1980s, Tom Selleck mentioned this on Late Night with David Letterman at least once, so I was pleased to find it available on Netflix (streaming only). Selleck was always a great Letterman guest—game and personable—so I like him, or at least the persona he presents on such occasions. The […]

Say Anything

How you may not use ATT’s Create-a-Code: You may not use or allow others to use the Service, directly or indirectly through your Device or wireless number, nor upload, distribute, transmit, communicate, link to, publish or access any Content through, using or otherwise in connection with the Service, that: Is a commercial product or service, […]