Showing posts with label Biographical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biographical. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2025

My daughter has a Substack. Which is very cool.

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I started this blog back in September 2007, a time when things were different . Iron Man was still a year away from kicking off the MCU sup...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Facebook ripped me off

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I punched my name into this handy plagiarism detection tool published by The Atlantic , and like millions of other authors discovered Mark Z...
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Sunday, March 9, 2025

We're living in an outrage machine

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Tanith Lee = anti-outrage. Ronnie James Dio once sang that you’re living in a time machine . Today we’re all living in an outrage machine. I...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Some recent acquisitions

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Some treasures acquired while out and about or through the post. The three other images below are postcard ads included w/Lee volume. About ...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

Paper books are better than digital: Five reasons why

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In many ways life is better today than it ever has been. In other ways, not so much. Parse this statement in whatever way you choose. One ar...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

Branching out in my reading, and reaching a crossroads

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Squint, and it's Conan?  I’m a man of multitudes. I read in many genres, including (gasp) beyond the borders of speculative fiction. Alt...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Of the year in writing, and reading--memoir update and more

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I went outside yesterday to take in the trash barrel and pick up the mail (exciting stuff--I’m a rock star, in case you haven’t realized tha...
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Thursday, October 3, 2024

The haunting season is here, in Lovecraft Country

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Heading to a trail behind my home, in Essex County. "It is the night-black Massachusetts legendary which packs the really macabre '...
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Friday, May 24, 2024

The Light is Fantastic—stay positive

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The fourth in a series about my personal values . Part 1 here , Part 2 here , Part 3 here . I write about some heavy shit on this blog. If y...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Humans are meant to do hard things

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In my professional life I serve a profession called medical coding. No need to look it up; it’s quite niche and rather impenetrable to the o...
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Monday, May 6, 2024

Some blogging odds and ends

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Some stuff that might be interesting to you, but at minimum is important to me. I’m not going to Howard Days this year. I was never plannin...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

50 years of Savage Sword of Conan, and beyond

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Ahh, no. 29, I love you. Love them all... Savage Sword of Conan debuted August 1974.  I was just one year old. Probably a little young to be...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

A few updates and a space Viking

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My friend Tom Barber bought a machine that transfers 35mm slides onto his computer, allowing him to convert his artwork to a digital format....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Authenticity, Inward and Outward

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The third in a series about my personal values . Part 1 here , Part 2 here . I lived a big chunk of my life like a chameleon, changing who I...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Organizing my bookshelves: How I do it (YMMV—no hate)

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Tor Conan, ERB, CAS, Moorcock... and more. It’s time to weigh in on a topic so contentious, so divided, so fraught with the potential for in...
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Silver Key: 2023 in review

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It’s the tail end of 2023. Another trip round the sun, another year of blogging on The Silver Key. Many things of import happened this year....
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