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Fun fax

Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is “fun facts about ourselves”. (1) One of my favorite hobbies/passions is singing. I sing tenor in a church choir with the odd solo, but I especially like singing traditional British-American folk music. … Continue reading

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teasin’

Today’s TTT is a ‘genre freebie’, and my first thought was near-future SF, but I did that one in spring. Whoopsie. Well, in honor of my current read, The Four Winds, I’m going to spotlight Historical Fiction, and restrict authors … Continue reading

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Top Ten Stories from Totally Random Pairings

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is about characters in different books who should team up, which is …difficult for me given that fiction is less than a third of my reading. So, what I decided to do was give Bing a … Continue reading

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PSA: This exists

And it’s awesome. AI version of Roger Clark’s American accent (he’s Australian, mate) as Arthur Morgan singing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird”. Manalive. We’re in this interesting window where this stuff is possible and where the copyright law hasn’t caught up yet. … Continue reading

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Wednesday blogging prompt: strange dreams

Today’s prompt is about a strange dream we’ve had recently. As I write this a week before the actual prompt, I’ve just woken up at three am after a series of odd ones that ran into each other as they … Continue reading

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Top Ten Tuesday: Barry and Joey solve a mystery

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday comes from Hope Never Dies, in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden get together to solve a mystery involving a dead Amtrak conductor. Yes, really. It’s goofy but entertaining. “One call,” I said to my faithful … Continue reading

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Wednesday blogging prompt: a job I’d be bad at

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “A Job You’d Be Bad At“. I hate when my attention is demanded, especially by some electronic doo-dad.  Call it mindfulness for fixation, but I prefer doing one thing at a time: … Continue reading

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A tease, a tease, a Tues-day tease…

From The Last Republicans: Afterward, the president-elect, Barbara, George W., Laura, and Barbara and Jenna boarded Air Force One to return to Washington. If Barbara Bush had any glamorous illusions about her new station as first lady in waiting, they … Continue reading

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Wednesday blogging prompt and song of sixes

Today’s blogging prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “A Job I’d Be Good At”, which is…pretty easy. I’ve been told on multiple occasions in the past twenty years that I’d make a good monk, which is….not surprising given my … Continue reading

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