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Haven’t figured out just who I’ll be here, so this will just have to do for now. (Knowing me, I hope I change this before 2030)
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This goes back, of course, to the railroads getting rights from the Supreme Court in post-bellum America under the 14th Amendment
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Well said
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I loved and love Incubus!
The DVD with the Shatner commentary is 🔥!
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Reading the 8th Brother Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters, The Devil’s Novice
Cover of the Futura paperback edition of Ellis Peters’s mystery novel, The Devil’s Novice, which has a pale blue background, with a sort of Celtic woven know design across the top and then the title—with an initial ‘D’ meant to suggest an illuminated manuscript (though it’s so ornate that it almost looks like an ‘O’)—with the text “A Medieval Whodunnit” below, and the name of the author, Ellis Peters (a pseudonym of Edith Pargeter), in another font vaguely suggestive of Medieval something-or-other, and the text “The eighth chronicle of Brother Cadfael” at the bottom.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Quite different from most of his novels; though he hits a lot of his usual themes, this book may be closest to fantasy for PKD
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Agree. You may also learn something that is wrong, such as the lichen-like life spread all across Mars I learned about in the science column of the November 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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True about the Le Carré novel, one of the best ever
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I loved defragging just for the visuals!
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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No ads, and the algorithms were your own
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Continuing with my re-reads of PKD novels in publication order, I am about halfway through The Penultimate Truth, by Philip K. Dick
"A Bluejay Special Edition" is written across a top banner on this trade paper edition of The Penultimate Truth, by Philip K. Dick. (His name is just below that banner.) Between the author's name and the title is the tagline "The Lies Began When The First Bomb Fell..." ... which isn't strictly accurate, but let that pass. Below the title is the text "A Paranoid Masterpiece from the Author of / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Filmed as Bladerunner)", tho' I'm pretty sure the movie was called Blade Runner, two words. Anyway, the picture itself is of a destroyed landscape on the left side, buildings torn in the distance and leafless shreds of tree trunks with nothing living ... and on the right side is green grass with a white picket fence and behind that fields and his and trees, and ... joining the two is a cutaway portrait of ... well, I assume it's Philip K. Dick himself, but maybe it's just some bearded guy, and anyway, it's just the left half of his face—to the viewer's right—and a building type structure fills in the other half of the portrait, with a pretty obvious eyeball in the middle of this factory (?), and the hair of the guy's picture on the right side is completed in the background on the left by a mushroom cloud.
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It’ll have to be for state crimes, one assumes
October 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Continuing my re-read of PKD, just started once more to read one of Philip K. Dick's 4 best novels, The Man In The High Castle
#booksky
A wordy cover with most of the imagery behind the text (which reads "Philip K. Dick / His Greatest Masterpiece / The Man In / The High / Castle / The World-Famous Classic / Of A Conquered America!") and then with barbed wire at the foreground below that text—but the thing is, y'see, the barbs on the barbed wire are formed from pointed … swastikas! Get it?!? Well, anyway. The image behind the barbed wire at the bottom third of the cover is of a small suburban house with a porch and a chimney and it's a single-level dwelling painted in either beige or cream (I'm no judge of color; ask my wife) with brown trim and roof, but it's not really suburban 'cause we see no other houses around it, only a green lawn and shrubbery and a little cute lake to the left of the cover, and a big deciduous tree towering behind it, as well as some other trees, more like … what are those tall pointy trees that they always have at memorial parks and like that? … well, like those. And then behind the house and behind the trees a hilly or mountainous landscape fades back into a haze or fog and then in the far far background, in a dreamlike grey or so mist rises a towering pile of rock, a mountain, all this behind the wordy text given above, and atop the rock peak, which is almost a cylinder, is a very distant castle just peeking out above the "Philip K. Dick" line of the cover text. Oh, and there's some bookkeeping stuff along the left edge, sort of ruining the imagery, but you've got in small type the Ace books logo, and turned 90º so as to lie just along the spine edge, the ISBN number and the price in Canadian and 'Merican. And that's the cover image. This is the Ace Books reprint from 1988, by the way.
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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That Sunday buzz after the marches really wore off fast
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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I thought the movie was one of the best realizations of the actual PKD story among those I’ve seen (I have Gary Sinise’s _Impostor_ in the queue but haven’t gotten around to it yet), without of course the ‘50s woman patronizing at the end of the short story
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Zackly
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Meant to say “also _recommend_ not reading…”
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM