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March 24, 2026

TV Tuesday 3/24/26

All my life I never noticed that, when February has 28 days (non-leap years), the dates in March line up exactly with the dates in February. It took writing this TV Tuesday post for March 24 and realizing last month’s edition was also on the 24th to notice it.

Seventy revolutions around the local star, yet I can still find new things lurking in what is by now a vast pile of ordinary. It’s a double-dip pleasure: firstly, the delight of the new thing; secondly, the delight of still being delighted by delightful things (and wordy whimsy).

More to the point, I’ve been delighted by some things I’ve been watching lately, including actually going to the movies this past Sunday.

10 Comments | tags: American Gods, Andy Weir, Bewitched, Japanese anime, Project Hail Mary, Rurouni Kenshin | posted in TV Tuesday

May 2, 2015

Frogs of Fantasy

By Wyrd Smythe

bromeliad frog For my money, Sir Terry Pratchett is the greatest fantasy author ever. That includes Tolkien, Verne, Wells, Burroughs, and Howard. (Martin isn’t even in this conversation to my mind, but then neither is Lucas.) Pratchett’s work has incredible social relevance. His keen sense of people, his deft hand with humor, and his ability to weave a rich, textured story as engaging as it is fantastic, gives his work a substance that sticks to the soul.

A recurring theme in Pratchett is the power — and the reality — of belief. Is Superman real? Or Sherlock Holmes? If millions believe in them, if so many stories are told about them, how can they not be real? One might say the same of all the gods we worship.

There’s also the bit about the frogs.

85 Comments | tags: Agnes Nutter, American Gods, bromeliad frogs, Diggers (novel), Good Omens, Johnny and the Bomb, Johnny and the Dead, Johnny Maxwell, Neil Gaiman, Only You Can Save Mankind, Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad, Truckers (novel), Wings (novel), xkcd | posted in Sci-Fi Saturday