Sorry, No Post Today
It’s my birthday. I’m too busy eating cake.
Author: erchristensen
Today is a Day to Celebrate
There are many reasons to celebrate today. For example, today is National Donut Day, and Dunkin Donuts is offering free donuts. Today is also Tetris’s 30th birthday (so many hours spent playing the NES version–I still have that song stuck in my head). And today is the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. But most…
Programming Notes
Sorry, not much of a post today. Tomorrow is my fifth wedding anniversary, so I’m running around trying to get stuff ready. So instead of a real post, enjoy this giant gummy bear being dropped into boiling potassium perchlorate.
AUTHORITY by Jeff Vandermeer — a Review
AUTHORITY is the second book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (the first, ANNIHILATION was reviewed here.). AUTHORITY refocuses the weirdness not on Area X, but on the Southern Reach, the highly classified and highly dysfunctional government agency charged with investigating the area. In ANNIHILATION, readers received glimpses of failure and confusion. In AUTHORITY, readers…
His Bloodlust Cannot be Sated!
Yesterday I posted a link about my ghoul of a pet. Here’s an update. Less than two hours after I posted, I took him for a walk. Along the way, I spotted a dead parakeet on the sidewalk, and I had to yank Scotch away from it before he ate it. I don’t know what’s…