Chuck Gatlin
@cgatlin.bsky.social
Cathedral cantor, bibliophile, technical editor, former college professor, uncle/great-uncle/great-granduncle, married to college sweetheart, together 51 years. 🏳️🌈
My father had a deer feeder near his home to lure deer for his & step-mom’s viewing enjoyment (he didn’t hunt). They would come up soon after sunset. When bow hunting season began, their schedule changed to midnight feeding instead.
Also: check the outside pets for ticks with special care.
Also: check the outside pets for ticks with special care.
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My father had a deer feeder near his home to lure deer for his & step-mom’s viewing enjoyment (he didn’t hunt). They would come up soon after sunset. When bow hunting season began, their schedule changed to midnight feeding instead.
Also: check the outside pets for ticks with special care.
Also: check the outside pets for ticks with special care.
To me, that makes them “fingerless mittens,” but I know that lots of folks say “fingerless gloves” for both conditions. My husband makes lots of fingerless gloves, & sometimes he uses a fingerless mitten pattern & adapts it for fingerless gloves (individual openings for 5 digits instead of 2).
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
To me, that makes them “fingerless mittens,” but I know that lots of folks say “fingerless gloves” for both conditions. My husband makes lots of fingerless gloves, & sometimes he uses a fingerless mitten pattern & adapts it for fingerless gloves (individual openings for 5 digits instead of 2).
Are those made with individual fingers (4+thumb) or two openings (all fingers+thumb)?
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Are those made with individual fingers (4+thumb) or two openings (all fingers+thumb)?
There were also plenty of poor farming people who saw emigration from England as a way to become independent farmers with their own land.
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There were also plenty of poor farming people who saw emigration from England as a way to become independent farmers with their own land.
A very welcome book report.
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A very welcome book report.
I'm reminded of Heinlein's publisher insisting he cut STRANGER from 220K words to 150K. He managed 160K, and thought it was a better book for it. After his death, the 220K was published. There are good things in it that I enjoyed; but to my mind, the version he sweated over to cut IS a better read.
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm reminded of Heinlein's publisher insisting he cut STRANGER from 220K words to 150K. He managed 160K, and thought it was a better book for it. After his death, the 220K was published. There are good things in it that I enjoyed; but to my mind, the version he sweated over to cut IS a better read.
Having lived all my life in Texas, both rural and suburban environments, but also visited the Starkville area for extended visits most of my 72 years, I think you're mistaken about that. What Abbott is trying to lead TX into is even worse than that from which Starkville has long striven to emerge.
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Having lived all my life in Texas, both rural and suburban environments, but also visited the Starkville area for extended visits most of my 72 years, I think you're mistaken about that. What Abbott is trying to lead TX into is even worse than that from which Starkville has long striven to emerge.
This is such good news! You and your generous nature are one of the reasons not to give up on social media! And your little dog, too!
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is such good news! You and your generous nature are one of the reasons not to give up on social media! And your little dog, too!
I even got a German edition of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (DER WINTERKAISER) to read so I could read it twice in a row without feeling guilty about neglecting some other reading. It is so good. And the other books set elsewhere in that world are so good as well.
September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I even got a German edition of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (DER WINTERKAISER) to read so I could read it twice in a row without feeling guilty about neglecting some other reading. It is so good. And the other books set elsewhere in that world are so good as well.
Looks like you really needed that! I know I did! Thanks, Liam!
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Looks like you really needed that! I know I did! Thanks, Liam!
Maybe a general preference for "amok" because it has nothing to do with "muck," which remains in fairly common usage?
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Maybe a general preference for "amok" because it has nothing to do with "muck," which remains in fairly common usage?
I re-read the first two books, then read the others for the first time, in anticipation of this one. It was one of the best, I thought.
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I re-read the first two books, then read the others for the first time, in anticipation of this one. It was one of the best, I thought.
the short stories Asimov later turned into FOUNDATION were mostly written before 1949, when Heinlein published the ground-breaking "Delilah and the Space Rigger."
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
the short stories Asimov later turned into FOUNDATION were mostly written before 1949, when Heinlein published the ground-breaking "Delilah and the Space Rigger."
I fell out of the habit of reading his books sometimes in the late 80's. I'd be interested if the books he wrote after he remarried (to a female SF writer) did a little better with women characters. It shouldn't be surprising how women come off in FOUNDATION--it was conceived in the early 1940s, &
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I fell out of the habit of reading his books sometimes in the late 80's. I'd be interested if the books he wrote after he remarried (to a female SF writer) did a little better with women characters. It shouldn't be surprising how women come off in FOUNDATION--it was conceived in the early 1940s, &
It was cloudy here so I didn't get to go outside and look for Saturn. I'll give it a shot tonight!
September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It was cloudy here so I didn't get to go outside and look for Saturn. I'll give it a shot tonight!
What? No lederhosen?
September 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
What? No lederhosen?
She should have asked William Frawley.
September 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
She should have asked William Frawley.
Do you suppose the same mental/linguistic thing is going on when we hear rhymes like “calf/math” as when we easily understand someone like the Dodger when he speaks in his heavy cockney accent?
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Do you suppose the same mental/linguistic thing is going on when we hear rhymes like “calf/math” as when we easily understand someone like the Dodger when he speaks in his heavy cockney accent?
Interviewed by Bobbie Wygant (1926–2024), beloved Fort Worth, Texas television personality on WBAP-TV, later renamed KXAS, beginning in 1948 and continuing well into the current century.
August 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Interviewed by Bobbie Wygant (1926–2024), beloved Fort Worth, Texas television personality on WBAP-TV, later renamed KXAS, beginning in 1948 and continuing well into the current century.
I'm usually with you on stuff like this, but correcting people on this usage always seems to verge on giving in to the sniggering schoolboys. I'd correct it on the page, anyway, but I wouldn't feel good about doing so.
July 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I'm usually with you on stuff like this, but correcting people on this usage always seems to verge on giving in to the sniggering schoolboys. I'd correct it on the page, anyway, but I wouldn't feel good about doing so.
Whatever greatness rating “Tombstone” deserves or doesn’t deserve, it’s a movie I always stop on if I’m channel surfing—and the reason is mostly Val Kilmer.
July 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Whatever greatness rating “Tombstone” deserves or doesn’t deserve, it’s a movie I always stop on if I’m channel surfing—and the reason is mostly Val Kilmer.
That is beautiful, and I bet it was delicious!
July 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
That is beautiful, and I bet it was delicious!
Henderson illustrated E.R. Eddison’s novels THE WORM OUROBOROS, MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, STYRBIORN THE STRONG, & THE MEZENTIAN GATE. The Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperback THE WORM OUROBOROS was where I first encountered his work, c. 1968, when it made a striking impression on 15-year-old me.
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Henderson illustrated E.R. Eddison’s novels THE WORM OUROBOROS, MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, STYRBIORN THE STRONG, & THE MEZENTIAN GATE. The Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperback THE WORM OUROBOROS was where I first encountered his work, c. 1968, when it made a striking impression on 15-year-old me.