J Chaisson

I really should watch that. The manga is quite enjoyable.

If you see this post an anime you love

A year without mixtapes Alas, I did not have the time, nor the inclination, to make any mixtapes this year. I’m pretty sure I’ll still do my year-end playlist/mix, but other than that, I just never got around …

Today's Walk in Silence admits to a year without mixtapes.
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a close up of a person 's face with red hair ALT: a close up of a person 's face with red hair

I think they've all been replaced by the fisheye-lens-down-towards-the-forehead shot, to be honest.

Chilling Image from Laid Back Camp That is, feeling a bit cold lately. This is around the time of year when the temperature starts to dip in the Bay Area. Not quite the freezing cold of the Northeast that I…

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is chilling.
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And so it begins… The above was the first Christmas song of the season to be heard at work the other day. Yes, I know Thanksgiving is still a week away, but this is actually right about on time for my store. The hol…

Today's Walk in Silence notes that the season of Christmas music has begun.
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Catching up on music with…Ritual Howls I’ve said it before, I do love how the current generations of bands have decided to learn from 80s post-punk these days, and Detroit’s Ritual Howls has chosen to latch themselves specif…

Today's Walk in Silence catches up on music with Ritual Howls.
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Let the holidays commence Image from The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity It’s halfway through November (already??), which means that Q4 and the Holiday Season is pretty much in full swing. The managers have alread…

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown lets the holidays commence.
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

I wish I was as cool as Calvin I was introduced to Too Much Joy by my friend Chris back in 1990 when the major label reissue of their second album Son of Sam I Am dropped, and I was immediately hooked. At that point in time I wa…

Today's Walk in Silence wishes he was as cool as Calvin.
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I’ll be honest… I think one of the biggest things I’m nervous about with Theadia is not the dog fights, nor is it the physics of flight (both air and space) or even the science of how wormholes work. I&#8217…

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown talks about rank.
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Auditory Processing Disorder can be so stressful sometimes. 😮‍💨

Seven or eight things One of the hardest parts of wanting to keep a daily habit of writing at 750Words (especially after a long hiatus) is trying to come up with something to write about in the first place. Some days I&…

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown talks about 750Words and seven or eight things.
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Catching up on music with… KMFDM I do have a soft spot (heh) for industrial music. I don’t listen to it all that often, but I’ve loved it since I first heard those dance beats, clanky percussion and crunchy guitars in …

Today's Walk in Silence catches up on music with KMFDM.
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Catching up on music with… Heartworms The other day on the way back from Costco we’d heard her single “Retributions of an Awful Life” from her 2023 EP A Comforting Notion and it occurred to me that she’s definit…

Today's Walk in Silence catches up on more new music!
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Filling in the gaps I am now at the point in Theadia where I have to visit all the WRITE THIS LATER gaps and…well, write them. Thankfully, I planned ahead of time during this last reread/revision, where I wrote …

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is filling in the gaps.
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In that middle ground again It’s been a rough couple of weeks here at the New Digs. There’s been a bit of drama at the Day Job that I’ve been juggling, not to mention the rise in customer volume considering …

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is in that middle ground again.
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so wonderful when that spark of a novel idea hits you and it all clicks into place and you think THATS THE ONE. mostly because you cant force it. just have to wait and then eventually the timeline says 'here you go, heres a diamond that was floating by.' anyway, caught a diamond today. very exciting

Catching up on music with… …a number of things lately! As always, my primary listening time has been during my writing sessions, and considering my current project is a space opera with an ensemble cast, I need a lot o…

Today's Walk in Silence catches up on some more music.
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And now for the next step… I am just a few short(ish) chapters away from completing this current revision of Theadia, which means two things. One, my next step in completing this novel is to go back again and fill in all the…

Today's Welcome to Bridgetown is ready to take the next step in finishing this project.
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DAICON III & IV Opening Animation -Domesday Duplicator Remaster] : hideaki anno : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Deinterlaced & remastered version of the original Laserdisc for Daicon IV & III.

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

Nice! I always wanted Worldcon to do something like this with current source material but still using the ELO song. :)

And believe me, there are A. LOT. of them on the music blogs.

I mean, as long as you don't turn into a muso griping about how "the original version of track three produced by Phil Spector but only available on the original first mono edition is missing from this box set and that really sucks" then that's cool by me! 👍😁🎶

Since I didn't do wraparound, I'm not sure exactly where it is, but I'm reasonably sure I saw it at some point! Hopefully I'm not wrong. 🤔

Also, if you use wraparound, I suggest adding the bc text directly to the art, as otherwise D2D just adds the text as full block paragraphs.

Since I only had the cover, D2D selected a simple plain back cover with the same primary hue of the cover picture.

Yes, it's when you're ready to publish it. For physical books you can upload either just the cover picture or a wraparound, depending on what you have. It also allows you to adjust the art so it fits better!

When you get to the ebook publishing page, it should also prompt you for book publishing. One of the steps will guide you through the cover setup.

I Had My MTV I’ll freely admit that I’m firmly on the Gen-Xer side of ‘remembering MTV back when it played music videos’. We’re talking the early 80s here, back when my family sign…

Today's Walk in Silence remembers it had its MTV.
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