Showing posts with label In memorium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In memorium. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2026

A year since Ma passed.




Been a helluva year. It flew right by.
That first few months were long delayed home repair projects.
Deciding what of hers to keep, give away, and throw out.

Reading piles of books and talking to internet friends is about all that's kept me sane.

On April 10th of this year, I got hospital sick.
Dad's had constant testing shit.
My paternal grandmother isn't doing so great. She's not long for this world.
We tried to adopt her cat, but my cat howled at her to establish dominance, and she said "fuck this" ripped the screen, ran out into the woods, and vanished forever.

So...yeah.
Helluva year.
Not my favorite.


Read More......

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Retroactive post #20.


Added a history-erased good-guy who stood up to a recently-demised bad-guy.


And, that's 20.


Read More......

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Retroactive post #19.


Added the final batch of four memorials I was too depressed to deal with.
I skipped yesterday cuz some shit went down. I'll talk about it some other time.


Like I said the last four times, we really got fucking pounded in 2025.
These go a little bit into 2026, but it felt necessary.
Anyway, backlog done!


Read More......

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Retroactive post #18.

Added a fourth batch of four memorials I was too depressed to deal with.

Read More......

Monday, June 8, 2026

Retroactive post #17.

Added a third batch of four memorials I was too depressed to deal with.


Like I said the last couple times, we really got fucking pounded in 2025.
I've got two more batches of four coming.


Read More......

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Retroactive post #16.


Added four more belated memorials I was too depressed to deal with.


Like I said last time, we really got fucking pounded in 2025.
I've got more coming that I'll keep tackling in 4 part chunks.


Read More......

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Retroactive post #15.


Added four belated memorials I was too depressed to deal with.


We really got fucking pounded in 2025.
I've got more coming that I'll tackle in 4 part chunks.


Read More......

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Poe 3: Poe/Pym spinoff-a-thon (Part 6).



At long last. The tribute-read for my mother that this whole thing was originally planned around.
Couldn't help it. Those progressive rebuttals were like pie-aroma to a cartoon hobo.
Had to run down that rabbit hole to the end.

Read More......

Monday, May 4, 2026

Star Wars Day reborn!




Yeah, what the Hell.
We've finally got a movie coming this year. Be dumb to give up on it now.

It's midnight here, but Google's midnight is 3 AM, so legally, I still have time left.

"Mandalorian and Grogu" drops on the 22nd.
I'll probably go see it.
Its been 7 years since "The Rise Of Skywalker".
Damned near the 10 years that came between "Sith" and "Awakens".

Its been a fucked up gloomy introspective year.
Hopefully "Mando & Grogu" will deliver the Star Wars high.

"Spaceballs: The New One" is shot, and coming soon.
Definitely gonna try to see that.

Yeah, there's things to look forward to.
I'll keep dragging myself by my fingernails.
Why not? I got this far.


Read More......

Friday, April 24, 2026

Weird-fiction marathon 1st anniversary.


First anniversary of getting the Poe book that led to the next thing, and the next, and the next.....
Read More......

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Ma's books.


Well, I've cataloged/curated 'em, and here they all are.

Read More......

Thursday, March 5, 2026

HAHAHAHAAA!!! *Facepalm* *Sigh*

Guess what I just found? Read More......

Thursday, February 26, 2026

So, Neil Gaiman...(Part 3)


A.K.A. dismantling Sandman part 2.

There!! Done!
Took the Sandmans back to Bullmose. No muss, no fuss.
Easy-peasy.

Grabbed....
Read More......

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Late addition to book-a-thon!

Okay, y'know how I said in my revisit of "Garth Merenghi's Dark Place" that I was decently sure that Garth was influenced by Ramsey Campbell?

Well guess friggin' what?
Read More......

Saturday, January 24, 2026

RIP Alex Pretti


From my future self in 6/11/26.


Like with the Melissa Hortman and Renée Good ones, I had another negative one for a shitty person planned, but decided I wanted a good one of a good person who died fighting for a good cause.

Said it before in the Renée Good one, fuck ICE.

Like Renée Good, don't bother with people that try to victim blame him.
Cut those people out of your life if you can.
If you didn't get around to it at the time, it's never too late.

And like I said with the Renée Good one, he counts as a celebrity now.
He's immortalized in a Bruce Springsteen song.


Read More......

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

RIP Renée Good


From my future self in 6/11/26.


Like with the Melissa Hortman one, I had another negative one for a shitty person planned, but decided I wanted a good one of a good person who died fighting for a good cause.

ICE sucks, and her death proves it right.
Fuck ICE.

When you kill someone who says "it's okay, I'm not mad at ya" and call her a "fucking bitch" after, you're a villain.
Anyone who calls someone like that a hero is also a villain. Don't debate that person, they're a waste of air.

Anyway!
She counts as a celebrity now.
She's immortalized in a Bruce Springsteen song.


Read More......

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Serling-verse revisited!


Things keep Kevin Baconing to Twilight Zone...

Indeed!!
Read More......

Sunday, December 14, 2025

RIP Rob Reiner


From my future self in 6/6/26.


Like I just said in the Ozzy one, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.

Jesus, stabbed by your son. It's literally as tragic as the shit that happens to the grownup versions of the boys from "Stand By Me".

They did a really wonderful tribute for him at the Oscars.
That said it all best.

Here's all his stuff I reviewed.



Read More......

Saturday, November 29, 2025

RIP Tom Stoppard


From my future self in 6/8/26.


Like I said in the Terence Stamp, Graham Greene, and Diane Keaton ones, I had too much grief over my mother to do any of these.
I can tackle them now. 

I found Stoppard's politics icky. You have to be full-on fascist to be full-on disgusting.
He was just...icky.
He was a pro-capitalist, pro-Christian, bourgeois elitist diet-Republican style liberal.
I don't know or care what the political labels would be in the UK; I just know I'm as sick to death of these "establishment libs" as the fascists.

I piss on the Clintons; I don't see Clinton-ism as some golden age; I don't see "The West Wing" as their Camelot legend that I get fucking misty and weepy over; and I think James Carville needs to be put out on a fucking ice floe instead of being treated like Yoda by our liberal pundit class.

I've fucking had it with these fucking people.

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stoppard will always be the guy who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
And Margaret and I got to share in that.

And he didn't groom and diddle any kids. Unlike Michael Jackson or Woody Allen.
So, I can grit my teeth for Tom Stoppard on this one case.


Read More......

Thursday, October 30, 2025

RIP Drew Struzan


From my future self in 6/7/26.


Like I said yesterday in the Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Reiner ones, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, so I didn't keep up on these. Almost a year later, I can finally tackle 'em now.

Struzan did more movie posters than you can shake a stick at.
The protagonist in "The Mist" was a poster artist, so they got Struzan to do the poster, and had David be the Struzan of the King-verse, and have his art up in his studio. Including the ones for "Shawshank" and "Green Mile".

I'll always love that weird little meta-tribute.
It made me smile when I re-watched "The Mist" for my latest read-a-thon of King books.

Off the top of my head....
He did The Harry Potters. (Yeah, I know, JK sucks)
He did a honking shitload of the Star Wars novels without anyone blowing the trumpet

Yeah, he got around.
Do a Google deep-dive yourself, you'll have a great time.


Read More......

Blog Archive

Labels