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I prefer trade paperbacks as a physical form factor, but there is (or at least was) a use-case for mass-market paper; I suppose for much of that use-case the replacement is e-books. Oh, well.

As someone who enjoys, and has at times preferred, shorter fiction, I am always saddened when I think how the market for it has contracted (collapsed? imploded?) even just in my lifetime.

Curing salt, yes? (Maybe a specific one, it's not a category I know.) While I didn't know corned beef was cured, I probably should have--and I'm not surprised to learn it. None of those named ingredients surprise me, but I haven't done any meat-curing (and I do not doubt there could be some...

I understand your concern. Are there logistical or other concerns that'd make you reluctant to run a test batch (or maybe two) for in-house consumption? Is there a source that is, or at least claims to be, a conversion of a more-commercial recipe for home use? (These are just outside thoughts...

I can see those, and I'm not going to argue all that hard, but both of them have deep roots as contagion analogues. (Yes, both mental illness and queerness have been perceived as contagious at points.) I think werewolves as the evil inside us and vampires as the evil outside us work at least as...

I'm a long-time horror fan, but I prefer it mostly as words on the page. That said, there's a difference between gore as a consequence and gore as the point--I'm not a fan of slashers or torture porn (they don't work as horror for me) but something like Sinners, where the gore is present because...

Franchises, collectibles, unfinished stories (I'll read that planned trilogy once it's all published) and indefinite series fiction.

Because they're both plague analogs.

I KNOW RIGHT?

Probably for the same reason some bands' songs all sound alike ...

Ouch. That sounds rough just in general, never mind the specific instance. For an early-fifties mostly-sedentary nerd, I'm OK--This is just a lot, and it probably won't be clear until it melts sometime next week (if the forecast is to be believed).

Here in the Maryland burbs, we got maybe six inches of snow, and something like two-to-four of sleet on top. At this point, it's all kinda compacted and mostly ice, which makes clearing anything you didn't get on right away ... tricky. Also, what looks like snow is kinda tricky to walk on and...

I agree. Chances are really good that other people are wrong. :LOL:

People say all kinds of stupid s[tuff].

Funny thing, those were really like the opposite of my experiences, being in bands when I was younger. Though the fact none of the bands I was in really got far out of the basement/garage is certainly a thing.

That's the one I bounced off of hard enough to stop reading Hendrix. Different people will have different tastes and preferences, and I'm genuinely glad you enjoyed it.

A) Grady Hendrix is a "he." B) Horrorstor is my personal favorite of Hendrix's books, something about the deadpan "catalog" listings, I think. (I've bounced real hard off Hendrix lately, that's not relevant to y'all enjoying his novels. Seriously, have at.)

Who ever said they'd get better?

At this point, "borrowed" isn't exactly the word, is it?

Unrelated to the above: I don't think those things work that way as often as you think they do.