I am not an ambitious person, as it goes. I've always been of the opinion that above a certain baseline of "providing comfortably for my family" I'm content with whatever kind of work comes along. That's partly because that I've always been lucky enough to…
Continue reading...Social media is a dumpster fire. BlueSky is increasingly anxiety inducing. Facebook is essentially hell on earth. Mastodon is OK but the social fractures are really something else. So, I'm trying to spend more time posting here instead of there. And putting up more photos,…
Continue reading...I pre-ordered Neil McRobert's Good Boy from Wild Hunt Books and apparently they take the "pre" part very seriously, because I got it quite a while before it was officially published. I've been a fan of McRobert's horror-focused podcast, Talking Scared, for a while now…
Continue reading...It has been a couple of months since Strange Houses, Uketsu's debut novel in Japan and second in English translation, came out in both the US and UK. I figure it's about time to address some of the particular issues translating this one, given that…
Continue reading...I'm not sure I'd exactly call this a review, but I read Ono Fuyumi's Zan'e—the movie version is The Inerasable in English but I'd call it "Tainted" if anyone ever asked me—and I have thoughts. Here's a bit of a summary, since I'm sure not…
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