Cathal
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Just watched the first couple of episodes of Pluribus. Really enjoyed it. But what struck me is how similar the initial concept is to Ted Sturgeon's novel 'To Marry Medusa' (a compliment, not a charge)... Also: the key art and outfit the protagonist wears is a dead match for my paperback edition.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Just watched the first couple of episodes of Pluribus. Really enjoyed it. But what struck me is how similar the initial concept is to Ted Sturgeon's novel 'To Marry Medusa' (a compliment, not a charge)... Also: the key art and outfit the protagonist wears is a dead match for my paperback edition.
Well... destruction often precedes creation.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Well... destruction often precedes creation.
I just checked to be sure and – phew – my copy still takes place in the Peak District.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I just checked to be sure and – phew – my copy still takes place in the Peak District.
❤️ “Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness”
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
❤️ “Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness”
If you see this woman, run.
September 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you see this woman, run.
Great pics. The building with the pipes immediately made me think of Charles Sheeler's industrial pictures and paintings.
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Great pics. The building with the pipes immediately made me think of Charles Sheeler's industrial pictures and paintings.
Should this actually happen, I am confident that you will dominate the Tric Trac tables.
August 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Should this actually happen, I am confident that you will dominate the Tric Trac tables.
Secrets do stir in the Aedificium...
August 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Secrets do stir in the Aedificium...
Bloody hell. Then again, large bodies of water and unhappy film sets were not entirely unprecedented.
August 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Bloody hell. Then again, large bodies of water and unhappy film sets were not entirely unprecedented.
I've only been in airports a handful of times but they all made me feel like this:
August 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've only been in airports a handful of times but they all made me feel like this:
Whereof one cannot speak.........
July 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Whereof one cannot speak.........
"When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate."
June 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate."
Wisconsonites have long ventured forth in such a manner. Here's another plucky midwesterner 'getting around' in a 'horseless carriage'.
May 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wisconsonites have long ventured forth in such a manner. Here's another plucky midwesterner 'getting around' in a 'horseless carriage'.
That's the great thing about games. Players can't really blame the authors when things don't turn out the way they'd hoped.
May 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
That's the great thing about games. Players can't really blame the authors when things don't turn out the way they'd hoped.
"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Robert Shallow."
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Robert Shallow."
That reminds me – Dean Cundey A.S.C. photographed a lot of John Carpenter's early movies – Escape From New York, The Thing – with that appealingly lo-fi, noirish, grainy style.
Then, in 2011, he shot this:
Then, in 2011, he shot this:
April 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
That reminds me – Dean Cundey A.S.C. photographed a lot of John Carpenter's early movies – Escape From New York, The Thing – with that appealingly lo-fi, noirish, grainy style.
Then, in 2011, he shot this:
Then, in 2011, he shot this:
"I have now come to claim that satisfaction".
April 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"I have now come to claim that satisfaction".
Ah. This one puts me in mind of your beautiful game.
March 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ah. This one puts me in mind of your beautiful game.
They also bolted R2D2 to the undercarriage of the mothership in Close Encounters.
March 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
They also bolted R2D2 to the undercarriage of the mothership in Close Encounters.