Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2025

A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap

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Tap crossed that line... which way? There is a picture of me going to see KISS on their hotly anticipated, sold out 1996 reunion tour. In it...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Reading is in trouble … what are we going to do about it?

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Reading is in trouble. How deeply? There’s evidence it may be in a death spiral. A new study published in the journal iScience found that d...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

What is this newsletter thing? =====>

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Update: The form is working! I've got confirmed subscribers. No, you’re not seeing things. That widget is there. I’m starting an email n...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Metal, and the Ozzman, on my mind

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For many reasons I have metal on my mind these days. I mean, it’s never far—I’m a confirmed metalhead, lifelong—but my enthusiasm waxes and ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Godspeed to a lighthearted Prince of Darkness

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Unreal, less than three weeks after “Back to the Beginning,” the end of the road for a once in a generation frontman. Farewell Ozzy Osbourne...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

S&S publishing news: Plunder-a-plenty

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Lots of swords, lots of sorcery going on. My friend Ken Lizzi, one of the dudes with whom I split a house rental at 2023 Robert E. Howard Da...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

More generative AI harm

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The result I was anticipating has occurred. A Federal California Judge today ruled in favor of AI giant Anthropic, stating that the company’...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Some further thoughts on generative AI art

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We’re getting increasingly embedded into machinery. The future is almost certainly cyborg, flesh and circuitry melded together. It is alread...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Three things

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Walk with me... Thing 1 I just finished re-reading The Long Walk after a long walk of my own, years and years of life since my last reading...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Here's something cool: Tom Barber painting donated to Andover (NH) public library

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On April 26, my friend Tom Barber--an Andover NH resident and a well-known painter and illustrator since the 1970s, presented his painting o...
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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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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Rest in peace James Silke

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James Silke, best known in S&S circles as the author of the Death Dealer series, recently passed away . He was 93 and lived a full and v...
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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 17, 2025

Rest in peace, Howard Andrew Jones

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The news is out, and it is terrible though not unexpected. Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls, the Hanuvar chronicles, and f...
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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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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Rest in peace, Paul Di'Anno

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He's running free... Punk music bloomed in the mid 1970s and by the end of the decade had permeated the popular culture. Just as Iron Ma...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Prayers for Howard Andrew Jones, ardent sword-and-sorcery champion

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When I heard the news that Howard Andrew Jones was diagnosed with inoperable and fatal brain cancer, it staggered me. I’m still reeling.  Th...
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Friday, August 30, 2024

Of artistry, addiction, and self-discovery: Forthcoming memoir of fantasy artist Tom Barber

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Tom Barber at the canvas. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art...
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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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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

RIP David Drake

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David Drake has passed away. I’m no Drake scholar and unqualified to evaluate his life and career or the majority of his creative output, in...
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