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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2022
This time around I’ve written a Python script to take the OPML file from Podcast Republic and generate the list along with URLs and official descriptions for all the podcasts. If I have additional thoughts I’ll add them after the official description. The World Around Us 99% Invisible – Official Description: Design is everywhere in…
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NYRR Washington Heights Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks 5K
A couple weeks ago, anticipating the coming spring showers and the possibility of having to race in the rain, I bought an outfit from Tracksmith’s new Thaw collection. As usual, I brought all my running clothes to NYC, not knowing what the weather has in store. After all, it wasn’t supposed to snow last race.…
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Review: Ancillary Mercy
Ancillary Mercy by Ann LeckieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was the perfect ending to the Imperial Radch trilogy. It continues in the same vein as the previous two books: deeply introspective within the context of Anander Miaanai’s war with herself. The final chapter (which, of course, would have been an epilogue in…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2021
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation. Public Radio Radiolab – Heard about them because sometimes their stories are used on This American Life. Radiolab is a…
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All Journey and No Destination: Friday and Fast Times at Ridgemont High
By complete coincidence I ended up watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Friday (each for the first time) back to back this week. I watched Fast Times because it was being covered by Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson were covering it on Unspooled, their film podcast. As for Friday, well, that’s a slightly more…
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Review: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 142
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 142 by Neil Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars An almost perfect issue (in terms of my tastes) in which I loved all but one of the stories. Here are my thoughts-per-story, which may have some more text than my status updates if I came up against character limits during updates:…
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Review: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 141
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 141 by Neil Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of those issues where I liked every story and every non-fiction essay. Read below for my thoughts per story. A space of one’s own: a whimsical dystopia that reminds me of the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. I’m a world…
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Review: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 141
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 141 by Neil Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of those issues where I liked every story and every non-fiction essay. Read below for my thoughts per story. A space of one’s own: a whimsical dystopia that reminds me of the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. I’m a world…
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Review: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 140
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 140 by Neil Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars A nice balanced collection. My favorite was Cold Comfort. Below are my per story reviews and/or thoughts. ——- A Vastness: A very interesting story of what we do when we’re so driven, we are willing to risk everything. And a great ending…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to In 2020
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation. Public Radio Radiolab – Heard about them because sometimes their stories are used on This American Life. Radiolab is a…
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Review: Childhood’s End
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is some old-ass science fiction. It’s interesting that on my recent trip I ended up reading 3 SF stories from my to-read list that were all from the 1950s. It’s definitely got a lot of that Zeerust where we’re incredibly far into…
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Review: Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Only my third 5-star review for 2019, but boy does Ms. Leckie deserve it here. It’s everything I love about SF including a gigantic, fully realized world with a culture that makes sense as a consequence of the world she’s created. It really reminded…
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Review: Skipped Parts (GroVont Trilogy, #1)
Skipped Parts by Tim Sandlin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Supposedly (according to the cover on the version I selected on Goodreads) this was made into a movie. I found this so incredulous that I looked it up on IMDB. Apparently it was made in 2000 and is rated R so MAYBE there’s hope…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2019
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation. Public Radio Radiolab – Heard about them because sometimes their stories are used on This American Life. Radiolab is a…
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Review: The Secret History of Star Wars
The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book upended the way I’d thought about the Star Wars movies and stories for the past 20 years. First of all, given George Lucas’ original intention of having an endless James Bond-like serialized series of movies removes any arguments…