What did you blog about today?

[AE35Unit]

Hand independence workout

 

[Juliana]

I interviewed one of my critique partners who also happens to be a book coach...

The Book Coach Way: an interview with Christy Yaros

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Nuclear Powered Chariots

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

A rehash of 'Conor Bottletop is like whatever' from the August/ September anonymous challenge with comedian John Colleary.

 

[Valtharius]

Forgot to post this a few days ago. A collection of old columns from one of my favorite journalists.

Things That Matter - Books I've Inherited

A personal view of the true, the good, and the beautiful, from the late Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer.

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My final thoughts on this book: Things That Matter: Final Thoughts - Books I've Inherited

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Another narration of a 100 worder, this time 'Lying in state' from the Oct/ Nov challenge -think narrations send stories out to a new audience, got told at the weekend 'no offence but your stories are sh*t and nobody's gonna read them' ...they must've listened to a narration

 

[thaddeus6th]

First blog for some time. Been a bit busy, actually read this book a month or so ago: Review: Berlin: The Downfall 1945, by Antony Beevor

 

[J-Sun]

First blog in about 16 months for me:

Review: The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias

(Incidentally, probably a dumb question but how do you get those boxes with a blurb about the post as in Valtharius' post on the previous page?)

 

[The Big Peat]

Wish I knew. They just automatically appear for me.

The Boy in the Iceberg: AtLA Rewatch

(spoilers everywhere) There’s only one thing to do when you’ve watched Avatar: The Last Airbender for the third time in eighteen months. And that’s watch it again. So this is why …

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The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! This time, we’re looking at a novella that attracted plenty of controversy and criticism in its time as one of those terrible degenerate books, …

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[J-Sun]

Thanks - that made me think it was something on the wordpress end and, if this works it means that if you have an "excerpt" written for your post, it makes the box with the excerpt and, otherwise, not.

Review: The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias

The Godel Operation is set about eight thousand years in the future in a solar system teeming with life both biological and artificial, which is a sort of miracle since there have been intermittent…

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[thaddeus6th]

In which I review a book:

Review: The White Song (Chronicles of the Black Gate Book 5), by Phil Tucker

This is sort-of the last book in the series (there’s a sixth but it’s a prequel), which I’ve enjoyed reading over a couple of years. Revi...

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[AE35Unit]

New strings!

 

[The Big Peat]

It's great that Moore leaves it open like that. There is the possibility that Rorschach's journal, coming off the crank pile, will be dismissed. But there are green shoots of hope scattered through the book, like Dan and Laurie's happy ending. I suppose it doesn't matter whether Rorschach's journal is believed or not, I suppose, because we already got the ending of Veidt's arc through the Tales of the Black Freighter story - the soul of the mad, damned sailor is claimed by the Black Freighter. Likewise, Adrian Veidt has let his soul be damned, and he knows it.

I missed this. I'll read it now. But I think it makes a great difference to Veidt whether he's damned for success or for failure.


Meanwhile

I did a guest post elsewhere on humour

Humor in Books, and Other Places, Too! An Interview with Peat Long

KRRL- What is the last thing that literally made you laugh out loud? PL- Hmm. Hmm! This question probably shouldn't be so hard. I think I laughed at the predictability of me going out to the shop for one thing and coming back with a totally different set of things earlier; I think I laughed at...

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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! This time, we’re looking at a book that achieved huge underground status and established its author in genre history, even if nothing else he qu…

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[AnRoinnUltra]

Fair play @The Big Peat , don't know how you keep it all going -impressive stuff.

I did a guest post elsewhere on humour

I'm not sure if the taboo thing is true. I don't know from experience but all the comedians I met reckon there are most definitely taboos, and they constantly change. Seemingly some big name acts can push them a bit but for most they are to be avoided. Don't know if you heard of him but Dave McSavage pushes taboos -his shows often veer from the uncomfortable into the flat out hostile; John (who sometimes generously jumps into some of the daft skits I stick up here) has the scars to prove it!

 

[The Big Peat]

Fair play @The Big Peat , don't know how you keep it all going -impressive stuff.

Habit by now. I keep thinking about tuning it down to focus on other things, but it's so automatic for me to do that just doesn't happen.

I'm not sure if the taboo thing is true. I don't know from experience but all the comedians I met reckon there are most definitely taboos, and they constantly change. Seemingly some big name acts can push them a bit but for most they are to be avoided. Don't know if you heard of him but Dave McSavage pushes taboos -his shows often veer from the uncomfortable into the flat out hostile; John (who sometimes generously jumps into some of the daft skits I stick up here) has the scars to prove it!

Ah, but there's a limit to how many friends a professional comedian can lose. I was thinking more in terms of things people say to be funny and the idea that anything you can think of, someone somewhere is making that joke.

Out of curiosity, did they say what things they reckoned were taboos?

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

did they say what things they reckoned were taboos

Racism and sectarianism were the topics that come to mind, but there were more -seemingly it varies from time to time and to a greater and lesser degree; it just struck me how taboo was a very real fluid thing.

Keep up the good work

 

[AE35Unit]

Streets of London by Ralph McTell
On my baritone Ukulele

 

[Dan Jones]

it just struck me how taboo was a very real fluid thing.

One man's taboo is another's edgy humour. I suppose that's why it's so difficult (and dangerous?) to start policing comedians; what one finds funny is extremely personal.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

is extremely personal.

That's very true, I saw John do two shows recently -he had this thing where he picked an audience member and did a bit of banter 'where are ya from?', 'Dublin', blah blah, night one the victim was in stitches laughing, night two the victim was visibly upset and spent the rest of the show ranting about it ...reminds me of watching the Spike Lee film 'Clockers' years back, one lad was crying laughing through the whole thing, we tried explaining that it was no comedy but he wasn't having it 'if that's not comedy then why is yer man always drinking milk and trying not to puke!'

 

[The Big Peat]

.reminds me of watching the Spike Lee film 'Clockers' years back, one lad was crying laughing through the whole thing, we tried explaining that it was no comedy but he wasn't having it 'if that's not comedy then why is yer man always drinking milk and trying not to puke!'

Very good question.

Sploosh: Thoughts on Discovering Archer

(total spoilers) Sometime around a fortnight ago, Netflix recommended I watch Archer, the spy satire cartoon. I had nothing better to watch, so I watched Archer. One hundred and twenty-six episodes…

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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! This time, we’re looking at a book that achieved huge underground status and established its author in genre history, even if nothing else he qu…

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