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Welsh Music, Part One 27 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Welsh music is, at least to me, not really Celtic music. It has a different feel to it: more wild, less formal than much of the Irish and Scottish music. Some of it, such as Cass Meurig’s Crwth (named...
Theatre of The Mind: Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time 26 Aug 2013 | 11:14 am
Fritz Leiber was best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also notable in the sf genre. One of his major sf works is the Change War series about rival time-traveling grou...
Literary Musings: Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes 25 Aug 2013 | 11:16 am
I know you. You are the Autumn People. Where do you come from? The dust. Where do you go to? The grave. ‘Classic’ is a word that’s had its value greatly diminished through overuse by reviewers who...
Concert Memory: Crasdant 24 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
I like Welsh music quite a bit and can say that though I’m not fond of harps as an instrument, they work rather well in this music. So it is that I offer up a concert memory by Vonnie Carts-Powell of ...
Theatre of the Mind: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book 23 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
Reprinted from Green Man Review. A number of months ago I had the opportunity to attend a public talk given by Neil Gaiman and, while discussing The Graveyard Book, he mentioned a comment made by wri...
Anything Can Happen 23 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
And probably will. Let’s see what’s in the bin for today. How about an anthology of horror stories, courtesy of editor Kasey Lansdale? Impossible Monsters has all sorts of — well, monsters. And from...
Cornish breakfast (A Letter to Anna) 22 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
G’Evening Anna, Oh, I meant to tell you that you missed a culinary treat last week. Iain asked Mrs. Ware to have the Several Annies prepare a traditional Cornish breakfast, including hog’s pudding (s...
Another Wednesday Pot-Pourri 21 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
A nice mix of things this morning, for your reading pleasure. We’ve got a look at an album from The Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, Outstairs, that you may want to listen to in the winter. Just sayin’....
North American Roots Music, Part Two 20 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Yes, Ukranian roots music and Klezmer music. Or more precisely Ukranian roots rock music which may possibly be one of the obscurest music genres you’ll encounter! The reviewer of the Diaspora album by...
Theatre of The Mind: Iain M. Banks’ Excession 19 Aug 2013 | 05:20 am
I had just finished listening to two novels by Charles Stross, Singularity Sky and its sequel, Iron Sunrise, so I decided to check the Infinite Library to see what we had from Iain M. Banks’ Culture s...
