Unused image for Super Awards post
Jul. 8th, 2025 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I stumbled across this image while putting 'Sinners' leads Best Horror Movie nominees at the Critics Choice Super Awards together. I already had an image to use.


Rejected video for supermarket post
Jul. 7th, 2025 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I had a spot for this video in 'Human Footprint' on PBS Terra explains 'How Supermarkets Rewired The Planet', but reached a natural conclusion before I could use it.
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Jul. 6th, 2025 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Right now #MAGA believes it has a monopoly on violence, but that will change and quite unpleasantly.
Postponed image for Super Awards post
Jul. 6th, 2025 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was going to use this in 'Dune: Part Two' at the Critics Choice Super Awards, then realized I reached a natural stopping point before I would have. Later.

Top posts of 6/2025 at Crazy Eddie's Motie News
Jul. 4th, 2025 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Crazy Eddie's Motie News earned a record 492,163 page views thanks to my Vietnamese and Brazilian readers and 11 comments on 30 posts during the 30 days of June 2025.
( Most read, commented on, shared, and liked posts of Crazy Eddie's Motie News last month behind the cut. )
( Most read, commented on, shared, and liked posts of Crazy Eddie's Motie News last month behind the cut. )
I’M READING AS FAST AS I CAN (JUNE 2025 EDITION)
Jun. 30th, 2025 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Flippin’ the pages, yo.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It’s always strange to review a textbook, but I got a Goodreads Reading Challenge quota to meet, so why not? Anyway, this was for a class, of course. And as the name implies, it’s an academic introduction to the New Testament, though in this case “academic” doesn’t mean dense or inaccessible. Powell has a fairly breezy writing style, so as textbooks go, it’s actually an interesting and informative read.
What works even better is that Powell makes very good use of sidebars for handy reference when you need to look things up quickly (for example, to illustrate similarities and differences between the four gospels). Even better is the various artworks scattered throughout the book that illustrate various parts of the NT as seen from different cultures around the world, not just the usual Western European Christian art.
Anyway, Powell does a great job explaining the content and historical context of each book and letter, who (probably) did or didn’t write what, and the various theological interpretations and arguments that are still ongoing to this day. Some might find it a bit simplistic, but it IS meant as an introduction to a vastly complex and multi-faceted topic, so it worked great for me.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Never read Anthony Boucher before, but came across this 1942 novel as a Kindle deal that sounded interesting, as the central mystery (written under his pen name H.H. Holmes) revolves around the Mañana Literary Society, a real group of pulp science-fiction writers which Boucher was a member that held informal meetings hosted by Robert A. Heinlein. So the novel serves as both a murder mystery and a fictionalised snapshot of the community of pre-WW2 Golden Age SF when it was still relatively obscure. The book is also the second Boucher/Holmes novel to feature police detective Terry Marshall and Sister Ursula, a nun and amateur sleuth.
The premise: the murder of a drifter named Tarbell leads Marshall to Hilary Foulkes (son of the late great Fowler Foulkes, author of the popular Dr Derringer mysteries), who thinks someone is trying to kill him – Marshall thinks so too, not least because someone mails a bomb to Foulkes during their first meeting. It turns out Foulkes has a long list of enemies in the pulp publishing field due to being notoriously ruthless about his management of his father’s intellectual property. And one attempt on Foulkes’ life results in the arrest of Marshall’s friend (and aspiring SF pulp writer) Matt Duncan.
Boucher evidently intended this book in part as an attempt to capture the community of the early pre-WW2 Golden Age SF authors before SF became more of a mainstream pop culture staple. Supposedly this is one reason it’s one of the few Boucher novels still in print. The actual mystery is beside the point – which is as well, since it’s underwhelming as mysteries go, and the dialogue shoots for Hammett-style Nick and Nora banter and misses more often than not. That said, even the Golden Age SF only really works if you are obsessively familiar with even the most famous writers (Heinlein, Campbell, Hubbard, etc) outside of their actual stories. The target audience might like it, but the odds of me reading more Boucher seem pretty low.
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Rocket in my pocket,
This is dF
AMERICAN DREAMER
Jul. 4th, 2025 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hello, Teenage America.
Got a playlist for your 4th of July cookout?
If not, I got one for you right here.
It may not be exactly festive. But it’s two hours of pretty good music.
PARENTAL ADVISORY: Playing this loud in yr back yard could result in a visitation from your local ICE franchise.
Gasoline dreams,
This is dF
Got a playlist for your 4th of July cookout?
If not, I got one for you right here.
It may not be exactly festive. But it’s two hours of pretty good music.
PARENTAL ADVISORY: Playing this loud in yr back yard could result in a visitation from your local ICE franchise.
Gasoline dreams,
This is dF
Rejected video for 'One Big Beautiful Bill' post
Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Jul. 2nd, 2025 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Pro-Palestinian Movement is a Russo-Iranian Hybrid Warfare Operation. It helped put Trump in The White House again.
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Jun. 30th, 2025 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The 900% increase in ICE's budget in this Big Bill goes toward the creation of a paramilitary force essentially controlled directly by Steven Miller.
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.