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The Rex Stout biography works better in small batches, so still going through it. Reread Josephine Tey's "The Franchise Affair". I think It is truly outstanding (especially in terms of the quality of writing and the insights the various characters have). Started "An Expert in Murder" by...

I'm a big fan of setting up primary/secondary school for kids to learn and not just grade/bean count them into submission (Our local district sets the minimum percent a student can earn at the end of each quarter as a 50% so that the grades essentially work like GPA for the course over the span...

The tags/subgenres for RoboCop are given as: Cyberpunk, Dark Comedy, One-Person Army Action, Superhero, Tregedy, Action Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller. The genre list as: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

I went to IMDB for the Superhero subgenre ... and it included Sonic III and Dog Man, for example. https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000008/?ref_=tt_ov_in_3 I'm pretty sure that isn't helpful...

In spite of having read Watchmen a billion times, I had missed the Outer limits relationship... https://www.comicsbeat.com/did-watchmen-steal-from-the-outer-limits-or-from-jack-kirby/ The article gives a lot of places preceding the Outer Limits too. "Sometimes I think the people of this...

This is hard for me to argue with. NIce list!

Finished most of the latest John Sandford Lucas & Virgil novel on the flight out and killed it off in the hotel (holy F, the author is 81!?) and got a few more chapters in the Rex Stout biography done on the first leg of the flight back.

Our regular places for the last decade or so have been brewpubs or restaurants with good bars. There are three places in our current happy hour rotation - all that brew their own stuff. (One that might sneak back in some day doesn't). I'm travelling for work this weekend, and this is my...

Away from my usual haunts - at St. Joseph's Brewery and Public House on Indianapolis. The last keg of Hefe ran out right before I got there, but the Dark Angel Black Lager was very good and the St. Nick Baltic Porter was solid. They also had pimento cheese and jalapenos somewhere on the menu...

At the usual Greek/Italian restaurant and I thought I might see what Greek beer they had. I'm really not usually a lager person and I'm not sure I could tell it apart from Corona. Certainly doesn't beat the other Greek beer I had (Fix). And a Unicorn seemed odd for the logo (would be fine...

Ones I think would work for 5e (at least for an E10 take on it): Glen Cook's Garrett Files/Tunfaire (Setting Book and City Map) Wesley Chu's Art of... series (Setting Book)

Ithaca Red Velvet Porter. One description says: 'A unique and unprecedented “red” twist on a porter, Red Velvet Porter presents notes of cocoa, rich chocolate, toffee, and deep caramel sweetness, vanilla, and a hint of frosting alongside an alluring, and brilliant garnet presentation. Red...