Les Taylor

The downside to Joe Bob Briggs switching to once a month is I forgot what time his show starts. So now I’m stuck between jumping in an hour late into a killer clown movie or just watching the stream on Sunday. Now I actually have to sleep at a decent hour tonight.

The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe

Today's Classic Cover of the day is the 1985 edition of Gene Wolfe's A Devil in a Forest, illustrated by Bruce Pennington

On a backwater planet controlled by a mining company, Zara, a young corporate space ranger, investigates the murder of a manager, which leads to a conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at the colony, especially his own, at risk in Stars Beyond Comprehension (96k).
#SFpit #SO #A #Q

If anything, the debate raised Curtis' Q rating & approval among a whole new generation taken in by his Archie-Bunker-meets-Rorschach goofy charm. CUOMO should drop out-- has HE ever been featured on the cover of early 80s KARATE ILLUSTRATED magazine?!

“How much does a long sword weigh? I can’t pick up more than twenty pounds, so probably forty because my dude is shredded. Also, I should make it clear exactly how many seconds it takes for him to unsheathe and sheath it, and how many centimeters his doodinger is. Where is my tape measure?”

lol, I knew he played it but forgot it was so long ago. I’m also not someone who likes DND, so I never noticed. If one of my groups said they wanted DND, I’d offer one of the Borg variants or DCC first because I really would rather play those. I really dislike 5E (for gameplay reasons).

He does occasionally run D&D, but Seth has also made it clear he sort of plays whatever his group wants to play. I think he’s said lately his group really likes Traveller so they mostly play that. He’s talked about it in past videos.

“You’re a writer? You’d get a lot more respect filming yourself sitting at a keyboard for three hours writing.”

I am making fun of that, but someone out there thinks it sounds awesome.

Ah, you’re finally playing Trump on the show.

This is amazing. Horrible, but amazing.

This is Hillary’s “There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics…” She then stops terrorist plots.

Before anyone says they all wouldn’t write self inserts, Bill Clinton’s novel features a President with a dead wife and he does commando missions while sleeping with a hot babe.

“Madam Vice President, in chapter 20, your pioneering, strong, mixed race DA who crusades against inner city crime thinks to herself about how awful bail reform is and how much it has harmed her city. Does this, to any extent, reflect your own positions?”

“Mr. Trump, in your book, the successful, handsome, tall, ripped business man sleeps with his 17 year old blonde daughter with no consequences… what did you mean by that?”

Every presidential candidate should be required to write a novel without assistance (especially AI), minimum 50k words ready in time for election season. Why? When someone writes their first novel, their soul is laid bare and they write the craziest stuff.

Also, the weird SciFi stuff that crops up in Books 3-4 are my favorite parts of New Sun.

Unpopular opinion, but I view Books 1-4 as one novel and Urth as a sequel to that novel. I find Urth interesting and great but unessential.

BookRiot’s page defining “why choose romance.”

No, I did not want to know.

Kickstarter funding page for “Bound by Disgrace & Descent: A Why Choose Romantasy” that has $2,570 pledged of $600 from 40 backers with 13 days to go.

An image of the signed special edition of Bound by Disgrace and Descent Kickstarter for $80. 6 backers.

The funding page for “The Wolfverse: why choose wolf shifter paranormal romance” which has made I am not kidding $45,696 pledged from 262 backers of $656.

An image of the Wolfverse Hardback Trilogy pledge tier. 51 backers are paying $200 AUD for three hardcovers. The edges are sprayed.

Amazing things are happening on Kickstarter’s fiction section, y’all.

Uh… “why choose”? Do I want to know?

Ah, but have you considered the legal theory of “I made it the F up.”

Wait… Word and not Google Docs? I’ve been straight Drive/Docs since 2012. Then I pray everything just looks fine when it downloads into .doc/.docx/.rtf or whatever.

a bald man says " i took that personally " Alt: a bald man says " i took that personally "

Trump:

A blank text version of the meme/political cartoon where a boomer is tearing his calendar to discover it says “January 1984.”

Had to age verify because my state forced BlueSky to do it.

It’s funnier when you consider the ending is “Torture is bad, I’m shoving all my brothers in the guild into their own cells for a taste of their own medicine.”

If you’ve read Goethe’s Faust or other old, insane closet plays, it’s far more endurable.

Figures exchange laser blasts around the Millennium Falcon on a landing pad in Cloud City, at dusk.

Ralph McQuarrie

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

"Sometimes it seems that I spend most of my time trying to explain things to people who do not want to understand. This may be more of that."

(Gene Wolfe)

Pennington is an amazing SciFi artist. His covers are iconic. Checkout his Book of the New Sun covers.

I’m starting to think Mutant Crawl Classics might be the more serious game.