Category Archives: General

August 2023 in Review

Posted on September 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

August is one of the few months of the year where I don’t mind if it passes too quickly. In the Gulf Coast, it’s a month for holing up inside and giving thanks for freon and electricity. The unexpected presidents … Continue reading →

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season II

Posted on August 31, 2023 by smellincoffee

No, Strange New Worlds is not a book. It is, in fact, a TV show. But I pay the bills ’round these parts, so I reckon’ I’ll write about what I want. The long dead period of onscreen Trek was … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Writing Prompt: Strange Loves

Posted on August 30, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “weirdest thing I loved as a kid”. I suppose every kid is weird in their way — I knew one who loved eating Cool-Whip with a spoon right out of the … Continue reading →

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This is the greatest thing to hit Star Trek since Leonard Nimoy

Posted on August 29, 2023 by smellincoffee
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Posted on August 26, 2023 by smellincoffee
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Fun fax

Posted on August 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

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’

Posted on August 22, 2023 by smellincoffee

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

Posted on August 15, 2023 by smellincoffee

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

Posted on August 11, 2023 by smellincoffee

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

Posted on August 9, 2023 by smellincoffee

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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