Category: history
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Charles Beaumont, CS Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, James Blish, and Frederik Pohl ALL Published in the same issue of MFSF
That’s right. Charles Beaumont, CS Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, James Blish, and Frederik Pohl ALL Published in the same issue of MFSF. Volume 10, No. 2: Here it is: Have fun.
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Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany
There are sometimes where I wonder if my titles are good enoughand then I come across yet again the title The Book of Wonder by Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany. Then I realize no, nothe problem is not my titles, the problem is my byline. I don’t have a name like Winthrop…
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Panasonic portable VHS 1979 TV commercial
Kind of wild to think about dragging around a Panasonic portable VHS recorder in 1979, but good grief this is valuable to know for my current work in progress. Who here owned VHS recorders? We had one, much smaller. Apparently they downsized a couple years later:
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Saints of the Plagues
In the time of the coronavirus, people of virtue and morality — particularly Christians and post-Christians — search for meaning and a proper response: for the saints of the plagues to emerge. Tara and I often find that the best way forward is backwards. That is, to give the democracy of the dead a vote in how…
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Generational Culture — films, novels, and the rest
My friend Chad wrote a post about generational culture in hopes to pick a film for every generation. As we texted back and forth with our friend Doug, we realized that a single film might not define a generation so much as a bank of films or even a bank of cultural touchstones. So after…
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Kinnaston: A Serial Story at the Hub of the World…
You guys know that I reblog about as often as politicians tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help them God. However, I find it VERY important to shamelessly plug writers I invest in, especially when I consider them close friends. That said, were I searching for an entertaining serial story by…
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The Strain of the Mockingbird
for him who has ears to hear I’m a mockingbird with no new song to sing said Webb. I wanted not to mock, but to mimic the mockingbird, mimicking-mock her when I over heard her song ring through the vale: I have no meteres, fresh offrians, nothing neowe for you to sing save patches of…
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Rabid and Danse Macbre
Over break, I started Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus and I must say it’s one of the most brutal pieces of nonfiction to cross my desk. Wasik and Murphy headed up a research team for years, digging into the origins of the disease that took down Old Yeller. (Sorry to…
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I Am SHER Locked
Well after reading what he did to my hero in the Houdini biography, I thought I’d never read nor watch a thing by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle. Nevermind that House was based on Sherlock Holmes (House=Homes; Wilson=Watson; Vicadin=Opium). Nevermind that one of my top-ten actors played Holmes in a recent series (Robert Downey Jr.). Nevermind that I’m…
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Sitting at the feet of : a Medievalist
When he asked his Franciscan Father, “When did you become a Franciscan?” Alex Giltner’s Father answered, “When I was born.” Alex feels the same about medievalism—he can’t trace back the source. However, like most young boys, he drew close to stories and films of dragons and swords. Then at fourteen, he read The Lord of…
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Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Yesterday was a weird day for me. Really weird. Emotional and weird–not like yesterday’s post or anything, just yesterday . Since I feel like writing, but don’t want to mess with any stories or editing or whatever on Saturday, let’s chat about the best film I saw recently. It’s like a digital bowl of comfort…
