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Peeve(s) of the Day

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Because this is a season for feeling peevish about so very many things. Peeve #1:? The phrase is not “been through the ringer” – it’s “been (or put) through the wringer”, with a w.? Wringer comes from the Old English wringan, meaning “to press, strain, wring, or twist”,…

I Like Reality…

…I live there. It’s where I keep my stuff. Now comes the news that Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.Continue reading “I Like Reality…”

Things Seen and Unseen

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Let’s talk for a minute about point of view. In fact, we could talk about point of view for considerably more than a minute, because it’s a complex and many-layered thing – not to mention being, for some writers, the key to making everything else click into place.…

Fifty Shades of Grape

I see from the posters outside my local cinema (local = forty-five minute drive in good weather, assuming no logging trucks) that the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey is about to hit the screen. As it happens, a while back I watched the first Fifty Shades movie on DVD, because, among other things, theContinue reading “Fifty Shades of Grape”

SFF Net Going Dark

Read about it here: https://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=read&group=sff.admin.announce&artnum=935 The full text (since this blog will outlive that link): Article: 935 Subject: End of an Era From: Jeffry Dwight Date: Wed 18 Jan 2017 12:36:07p Dear SFF Netters, We are sad to announce that, after 20 years, SFF Net is going offline. Although the reasons are prosaic (increasing costs,Continue reading “SFF Net Going Dark”