Monthly Archives: April 2011
The FFB Summary
Here’s the summary for Friday Forgotten Books, April 29th, 2011 Yvette Banek – An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence by Jamie Harrison Joe Barone - Small Vices by Robert B. Parker Paul Bishop - A Cold Mind by David Lindsey Bill Crider - Manifesto For … Continue reading
Friday Forgotten Books, April 29th, 2011
Here’s my contribution, followed by the list of other participants this week. If I’ve missed anyone please comment here as soon as possible and I’ll get you added. I’m on the left coast, so this is going up at Midnight Pacific Daylight … Continue reading
forgotten music: Carmell Jones
Business Meetin’, Carmell Jones, 1962 LP, Pacific Jazz black label, # 16602 – out of print Mosiac Select #2, Carmell Jones – B2-80404, 2003, limited to 5000 numbered sets – out of print Business Meetin’ is one of the few records … Continue reading
New Arrivals – April 11-24, 2011
I skipped a week or two here, both because I was busy and because less is coming in, which is fine, I have been reading (!) instead of shopping. So here’s the goods, but a word first: I love Black Dog … Continue reading
Niche-ism (Nichism)
There’s a darned interesting column written by Steve Davidson over at the fine Grasping For the Wind blog of John Ottinger. Both Steve (his blog is here) and John are what I term major SF-F fans (Steve more just SF) … Continue reading
simple pleasures
Friday morning I got up, made some coffee, and I sat in the living room by the fire. I opened a book and read. One of the cats came and curled up on the sofa next to me. A decade … Continue reading
FFB: Nice Weekend for A Murder
this is the 57th in my series of “forgotten” books Nice Weekend for A Murder Max Allan Collins, © 1986, Tor 1994 mass market paperback, Mallory – mystery Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A group of people go to a large … Continue reading
from SW 55th
We planted a vine yesterday, but it’s really too cold to plant so it may not make it. Whatever. It rained today. It will rain tomorrow. Watched some of The Masters today. It was a pretty good finish, but Woods … Continue reading
Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
As someone who came from a completely differently climate, and as a person who loves gardening, I’ve been at sixes and sevens these last few months about what to do here on our larger plot. Various gardening books I had, … Continue reading
less is… less
I’ve been spending too much time on my blogging while I need to be doing other things, so I’m going to be around here and on other blogs less. I know you’re all going to miss me, but don’t cry, … Continue reading
FFB: The Star Trek Reader
The Star Trek Reader James Blish, hardcover edition © 1976, E.P. Dutton & Co. individual paperback editions: Star Trek 2 © 1968, Star Trek 3 © 1969, Star Trek 8 © 1972 — short story collection, adaptations of original television episodes – dust jacket painting … Continue reading
Gorey! Bookmarks!
A month or so ago I came across these while visiting the Gorey House website, and I had to have them. Edward Gorey bookmarks by Gorey House – [printed by Gorey House from art by Edward Gorey, paper, black and … Continue reading
Really A Shame – NCAA Tournament
I turned on the Finals game last night with great expectations of a good game, and hope that perhaps the Butler University Bulldogs would win the National Championship, beating the University of Connecticut Huskies. What I saw was a fair game … Continue reading
New Arrivals, March 28 – April 3, 2011
It never stops, does it? Of course these New Arrivals posts don’t hint at the new items for the garden (with the move, we went from 275 sq. ft. to a quarter acre, and though some of it is wooded … Continue reading
The Broken Bullhorn 