Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Saturday, February 7, 2026

On seeing bands, of which you have no familiarity, live: A night with Opeth and Katatonia

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Somewhere around 1998 I stopped keeping up with new heavy metal. I could not tell you precisely why, only that I gave up the ghost somewhere...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Against the Demon World by Dave Ritzlin, a review

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( Note: I was given an advance reading copy of this book, which comes out next week.) It was a life of little but feeding, fighting, and for...
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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Jack by Andrew Sinclair, a review

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Andrew Sinclair’s Jack (1977) is my first foray into the biography of a writer I consistently place in my top 10 favorites. I greatly enjoy...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth, and the need for lines

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My neighbors (most of them) outsource their lawn care. They used to fertilize and cut their own lawns, maintain flower beds and gardens. Now...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Silver Key: 2025 in review

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T-800s like it here... but people too. Traffic to the blog EXPLODED in 2025. Unfortunately some of it appears to be robots, likely using my ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson: A review

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Anderson must have been pissed at the spelling of "Faery" Did magic exist, once upon a time? Did the creatures of Faerie roam the ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Stephen King's Cujo, a review

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I believe that, whenever he pens his last novel and his complete literary corpus can be properly appraised, Stephen King will go down as mor...
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Friday, October 10, 2025

The 70s were weird, man: Darrell Schweitzer’s We Are All Legends

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Sometimes the 1970s seem not so far away. Photos from my childhood confirm I was there; my old albums and books are a tangible affirmation. ...
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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...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Disconnect

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“Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.” “I've been to a town Del.” --Jeremiah Johnson Technology has ta...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague

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These dead are unquiet... I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it. Nonetheless it’s how I ...
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Friday, September 12, 2025

Bruce Dickinson at the House of Blues, Boston MA Sept. 11, 2025

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If all Bruce Dickinson had was his solo career he’d still be remembered in the annals of heavy metal. Bruce’s best solo efforts— Accident of...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Celtic Adventures wrapup and on into Cimmerian September

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Worth your 10 cents... I just closed the cover on DMR Books’ latest release, Celtic Adventures , and had to say a few words about the final ...