Recent content by Autumnal

Just popping long enough to note that Amazon Prime Video is carrying The Mothman Prophecies at the moment. This is, to my taste, one of the best horror movies of the new century. I seldom have much use for Richard Gere, but he’s very fine here as someone completely secure in the American...

I’ll score that as to spoons. :) Thank for good vibes, everyone.

Speaking of reading at all, I’m taking another hiatus. Family health care crises need more brain than I have; ice go to scrape together all the resources I can. Back when there’s significant progress on any of the fronts.

I love that cover.

I’ve only read a few things by Hodge, but I’ve really enjoyed each one. He has such a distinctive voice.

As if Buffy isn’t a reincarnation of Xena.

Jane Jacobs has been so widely ignored in practice because the people she (largely correctly, IMHO) identifies as sources of destructive action have immediate economic and social clout. It takes a lot to weaken them enough that people advocating alternatives can get any leverage. The story is...

You know if you’re one of the people who needs this.

Thanks, John. I’ve been wondering about both of those. I just finished rereading The Hobbit. It was again excellent.

1. Very soon. 2. Brains. Or depending on subclass, lymph and:or bile.

That’s a really good analysis of factors pushing bad moods.

People have been proclaiming the actual or imminent death of D&D since 1974. Waves of enthusiasm for the idea come and go, and since there’s more than one community involved, the tide can be coming in here and going out there, simultaneously.