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Marginalia

Not suprisingly, after winning this year’s Hugo Award for best novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won in the same category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards. (Via SF Signal). The book is still sitting on the bedside bookshelf with a bookmark about one quarter of the way in. Slate chimes in with an […]

Riffs and marginalia

As indicated, back to the more mundane but equally important realm of the blog after the recent Alito digressions.

E Street Radio is up and running on Sirius. So far, I’m impressed with the nightly full live performances that are being aired. I’ve also heard several nice few rarities and individual live cuts. I don’t […]

Marginalia and notes

A collection of the worst lines ever from SF, fantasy and horror writing. (Via Blog of a Bookslut). Check out a book at the Open Library. (Via Roberson’s Interminable Ramble). Based on a poll of about 4,000 readers, NewScientist Space magazine selected Firefly as the World’s Best Space Sci-Fi Ever. In second was Serenity, the […]

Marginalia and dicta

Tough to improve on what Sci-Fi Heaven says about the movie-going public:

It’s a sad state of affairs when the mind-numbing gun-em-down monster flick based on a video game [DOOM] grosses more than the intelligent, witty, character-driven Serenity.Grr to you, America.

Wanted to mention a new addition to the blogroll. It’s Synthaetic Synapse, basically […]

Lengthy marginalia

Although I’ve moved from PC hell to PC purgatory (my Catholic upbringing is showing), I remain far behind on a variety of things. So here’s a link version of a number of items, several of which were initially intended for longer posts. More substantive posting to resume shortly.

As a follow-up to my illiterati post, […]