Cannibal Corpse Comics

    We are committed to posting all comics we come across that feature Cannibal Corpse.  To be honest, there aren't that many of them.

Weather of Future Past

    This is accurate!  I will have been time-traveling there!

Just Enough To Pass

    This was pretty much my Grade-Point Average strategy throughout High School and college.

Pumpkin Poaching

    For some reason, I keep thinking of "Dune" when I see this.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork.  They have failed.  Perhaps it’s the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it’s just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder.  So let’s just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colorful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

    (from Mort by Terry Pratchett)

     8½*/10.  The full review is here.

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Art Appreciation Friday

   The choices were Pollock or Escher, and I went with the former.  It won't be long before I post the Escher one.

When to change

   True dis.

Haiku Wednesday

    I'm a poet,
    I know it,
    Hope I don't blow it.

Let the Pumpkin Memes Begin!

    It's not too early, is it?

Book Excerpt for the Day

    It could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.  When Princess Sophia Dorothea was told she was to be married to Prince George Louis of Hanover, she fainted dead away.  She collapsed again when she was expected to greet him as her fiancé.  And when she was given a diamond-studded miniature portrait of her betrothed, she dashed it against the wall, screaming, “I will not marry the pig snout!”  But on November 21, 1682, marry the pig snout she did.  It was probably the worst mistake of her life.

    (from Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodrigues McRobbie)

  9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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The Book Not Written

    You should be writing.

Science Saturday

    This is actually scientifically valid.  The concept of Potential Energy used to drive me nuts in High School Physics.

Netflix for Books

    We got out of the habit of going to the library every third Saturday when the main branch of the Phoenix Library system suffered major damage from a monsoon storm in the summer of 2017 and was closed for a year.

    We really need to get back into the habit again.  I miss borrowing 10 CD's each time, as well as being able to read recent book releases for free.

Chamois - Shammy

    It's not all fun and games being a grammar-Nazi.

    And I can relate to the comic strip.  When I'm reading, and come across either "discreet" and "discrete", I just instinctively assume the author chose the wrong one.  And 90% of the time, I'm right.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “To adjust the course of a battle here, to assassinate some tin-pot figure there … If you have such a tool as a Chronic-Displacement Vehicle, and if you know that History can be changed, as we do, then would you, should you, restrict yourself to such footling goals as that?  Why restrict yourself to a few decades, and to fiddling with the boyhood of Bismarck or the Kaiser, when you can go back millions of years – as we have?  Now, our children have fifty million years to remake the world … We’re even going to rebuild the human species – aren’t we?”

    (from The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter)

    7½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Movie Mash-Ups

    If they hired me to write the next installment in Winnie The Pooh.

Quantum Lotteries

    Why Quantum Mechanics and the Lottery don't mix/

Flat Earth vs. Science

    It's called Science.  And you can't argue with Science.

Kewl

    It's official!  The proper spelling is K-E-W-L when the word means "awesome", and C-O-O-L when it means "halfway between mild and frickin' cold".  It appears I'm no longer the only person committed to this.

    "Deets", OTOH, is still quite iffy.

    Utter kewlness!!

Book Excerpt for the Day

    She looked down at the man, who was already snoring and drooling, and saw the bright needle stuck in the back of his neck.  Bettina glanced up at her husband.  “Not that I don’t appreciate your saving my life, my love, but this does mean that our prisoner will be unconscious for more than six hours, which is six hours more than I’d care to wait before interrogating him about why he and his friend were here in Ranulf Kaiser’s house.”

    “You’re welcome.”

    (from The Kaiser Affair by Joseph Robert Lewis)

  8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Amarillo

    I've driven from Amarillo to Borger (in the Texas panhandle) lots of times.  I swear I've seen this silo along the way.

Modern Classical Music

    I've listened to some "modern classical music".  (Is that an oxymoron?)  Wikipedia has a list of "20th Century Classical Music Composers", and I'd select a name from it and then go out to YouTube and search for it.

    For the most part, modern classical music sucks.  All the great classical music was written by the time the year 1900 rolled around. 

Science Monday!

    This is true!  Trust me, I'm a scientist.

Stupid Joke Sunday

   Yeah, it's stupid.  But also quite funny.

My Hero

    Incredibly, if you go to Wikipedia and do a search for "marquis de Favras", it confirms this story. 

Book Excerpt for the Day

    I’m a really good liar – accomplished, some of my detractors might say – but for all my apparent bravado and disdain for rules, some authoritative types can bully me pretty good.  Preachers, cops and the IRS, in that order.  Having been raised by an eclectic mixture of hard-shell Baptists, Baha’is, and redneck backsliders, I harbor a host of divinely inspired phobias. (…)  So I don’t lie, I fib.  I prevaricate.  I equivocate.

    (from Just Add Water’ by Jinx Schwartz)

    7½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Fitbit Steps

    Yep.  That's me on the right.  When I'm close to my daily Fitbit goal of 10,000 steps, every pace counts.

Books vs. TV

    This is why I read books instead of watching TV.

Public Service Announcement

    Sage advice.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    Today we take it for granted that all of science is founded upon the notion that there is a lawlike mathematical order in nature and that this order can be discerned through sufficiently clever and sometimes arcane procedures such as devising experiments where you isolate certain things, making certain careful observations and then doing a whole lot of squiggles on the blackboard. That is the way we do science now.

    (from On Giants' Shoulders  by Melvyn Bragg)

  9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Two governors

    It should also be noted that this picture features, not one, but two, future governors.  I doubt that any other film can make that claim.

Self-Doubt

    I'm not a writer, and have no intentions of becoming one.  But being a book reviewer, I can say with certainty that this cartoon is true for almost every Indie Author out there.

Artax

    Well now, this is definitely going on my list to Santa this year.  And I have to confess, I'd forgotten the name of the horse.

NFL Report

    And a better record than the Dallas Cowboys!  And the Arizona Cardinals, but we don't wanna talk about that.

Banned Books Week

   Just a reminder that this is National Banned Books Week.  Read something subversive in honor of your right to read what you want.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “We know of your coming, Willow Grey, but think you do not know enough of yourself.”

    “I’m not interested in double-talk,” she said, “I am here to take back Barrowdwell from your mistress.”

    It laughed, “None have ever come here with such seeming arrogance and foolishness, we shall give you that much.  We might even inscribe some passing flattery on the stone you are buried under.”

    (from All Things True by Greg James)

  9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Mimetic Rivalry

    I admit, I'd never heard of "mimetic rivalry" before, and had to look it up.  There's a way-kewl YouTube video that explains it nicely.

    Once I understood the concept, I found this comic to be quite funny.

Sunday Motivational Comic

    I agree with the sheep.  I thought the moral was: "Beware of Tupu".

Indie Authors

    Well, technically, I suppose the picture can apply to published authors as well.  But indie authors are easier to talk to, and frankly. if you go out and angrily buy a second book by them, they're happy whether you agree or disagree with them.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “Let’s see,” Teresa said in a chipper tone of voice as she assumed a plastic smile.  “We need to find food, but we can’t disrupt the Prime Continuum, and since we’re in a castle under siege, we’ll be lucky to steal a few potatoes.”

    “No potatoes yet,” Gabriel’s mouth watered at the thought of a big baked potato with melted cheddar cheese and sour cream.   “Potatoes come from Peru.  They don’t end up in Europe until the 1700’s.”

    “Thank you, Mr. History.”

  (Note: They were in France in 1203 AD at this point in time.)

    (from The Sword of Unmaking by G.L. Breedon)

     7½*/10.  The full review is here.

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