BruceH

Just read "The Martian." Fun read.

Yes, I was very pleased with it. I went in just hoping it wouldn't entirely suck, but was astounded by how good it was. The penultimate episode, "Pimento," is a masterpiece. I just wish that the seasons had more than 10 episodes. 13 would be good, 12 would be good, but 10 just doesn't seem like enough.

Better Call Saul. I've been on board since the beginning, but last night's episode (#6) was amazing. The show goes dark. Damn.

I get 56. But I suck at math.

Spock was the best thing about the original Star Trek, due in no small part to Nimoy's talents. I'd heard about his health problems, so this came as no real surprise, and yet still terrible news. RIP

Jim, that yoeman you mentioned, Janice Rand, she was only in the first season of the original series. Then the whole idea of Kirk having romantic urges towards his hot female yoeman was tossed out the airlock, thankfully.

I liked her. Well, at least she lived a long time.

Sad news indeed.

This is such a shock. So young. I really liked her.

Or don't make a sequel that's shitty.

Sunny, warm, and windy the last few days. Also kind of earthquakey this morning.

Sad news, but the man had a long, productive life. RIP

Modernism, at the De Young, yesterday.

BNBB....11 years.....good lord.....

Like most people of my generation, I was a big Rockford Files fan, but I also caught some repeats of Maverick during one or two summers. Garner was so charming. RIP

Agreed. Well, except for Ellison; I think he's pretty much a waste of space, a man who's schtick became tiresome long ago. There was a lot of silliness involved in the "new wave". I'd compare it to the Sex Pistols in rock, as an interesting, if embarrassing, necessary step to get to what was next, but overrated on it's own. (Except for Effinger's What Entropy Means to Me; for some reason I love that book!) I remember a story by someone (I think it was Spinrad, another author I like) riffing on John Dos Passos (forgive if I'm spelling wrong) being praised as something amazing, and I just didn't get it. I might have been more impressed if Heinlein hadn't already done the same thing in Stranger in a Strange Land, but I guess he was too old guard to count. Silly, silly, silly... The book you're thinking of may be Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. It certainly copied the style of John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy. A flawed but interesting novel. On the other hand, as far as Stranger In A Strange Land goes, I could never get on board the bandwagon for that one. At a certain point, about 1959 or so, Heinlein became a windy, stiff-necked, get-off-my-lawn old man. I find most of his later stuff patchy to insufferable.

So anyone who doesn't have a big league local team to root for falls back on the Yankees? As if they were the national baseball default setting? Sad. But the map looks likely, for the most part.

First (double-length) episode of Season Six of "Adventure Time." It was great.

It is extremely seventies, if that makes any sense. Heavy on the metafiction, at times bordering on silly. A child of the New Wave... Effinger struck me as very much a product of the New Wave, and not always in a good way.

Road Dogs - Elmore Leonard Really fun book. I remember noticing this title back in the 70s, when sf was the main thing I read. I didn't get around to it, either, but the title is one of those that sticks in your head. I vaguely recall reading some stories by Effinger that didn't do a lot for me.

Adventure Time Come to think, I don't feel guilty about that at all.

Decorated WWII veteran. Maker of contraptions out of bamboo and coconut shells. RIP

Adventure Time. It's really good. On Season 4 now.

Just the Onion being the Onion. God bless their satirizing hearts.

RIP