Last Dinner Party

Pacifica

Orbit Culture

Visions of Atlantis

Beyond the Black

(all ones I have listened to in the past week or two)

Fatigued

You didn't leave a new one. 😊 I'll just answer my own.

Mostly MP3 these days. We do still have one CD player in the house (a small stereo system in the kitchen) but I don't use it much.

Clear snow yourself or pay someone?

Collectibles can be worth money.

Oo, one more. Dracula Beyond Stoker is basically Dracula fanfic, so stories about the characters of the classic vampire novel but outside the main plot. Currently looking for stories about Dutch physician turned vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing.

Author's Publish has a list of 30 genre markets. And it's quite a mixed bag, too. There's a magazine for children's and YA fantasy. There's one that encourages twisting, breaking, and combining genres (for that dark fantasy western crime story you've got in your drafts folder). There's Escape Artists, a podcaster and publisher who have casts for fantasy (PodCastle), s-f (Escape Pod) and horror (PseudoPod). Cliffhangers sounds cool, taking old time pulp adventures set in the real world without weird or supernatural elements. So Indiana Jones without the weird stuff. And so much more. So what's your genre(s)?

» 30 Magazines Accepting Genre Fiction

New Monday, new week, new 4-5 inches of snow. 🙄Yeah, we got dumped on again (and it's still coming down as of 8am). That's twice with 2 weeks left to go in November. This is either going to be a hellish winter or we'll get most of our snow early and then it will either be a brutally cold one (if it's really cold, the lakes freeze and we get less snow) or a wet, miserable one. Okay, let's face it, I'm not really a fan of winter. The skier I know (he used to compete and now coaches teens alongside his daughter) will be happy, I guess.

Putting on fresh coffee. Some dark roast Blue Mountain from Jamaica (sending vibes there, they got a rough ride from the last major hurricane) is brewing. Teas are Scottish Breakfast and Yorkshire Gold. Hot chocolate mix is out along with mini-marshmallows. Pitchers are washed and filled up with fresh iced tea and lemonade (hey, someone might want a cold drink, you never know).

And some goodies are out for those needing their blood sugar replenished.

Vibes on both the loss of your friend and your daughter's complications. Hope she recover

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not one of those grumpy old Gen-X'ers who go on and on about how much better music was in my day. Pop music, maybe. But there's tons of good music lurking out there if you look. I also love finding new artists and bands that I can follow and see develop.

First up, Pacifica released a new video today and it's kind of special. They are donating anything they earn on it to type 1 diabetes research and running a donation button on it as well for the same cause. Bassist Martina Nintzel has type 1 diabetes (you can sometimes see the glucose meter on her arm in videos) and this is not the first time she has used her burgeoning music career to promote awareness and fundraise for diabetes research. She's the dark-haired woman with a blue guitar in this video.

And Serena Belle has been around for a while doing covers. She mostly does TikToks/YouTube Shorts which means snippets of songs rather than full songs. She has a lovely voice which makes this kind of frustrating for me but all is forgiven today. She released her first full-length video of an original song and ape like much.

Not sure. I'm inclined to self-publish but if I had something I thought might go over, I could try publishers. (PS. This is Would You Ever? not This Or That😀)

WYE make a decision based purely on a dream or vision?

Stars must often sign autographs.

Cruise ship, though the idea of being a passenger on a cargo ship has its appeal.

CD or MP3?

Minimums are the low points.

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My sixteen-year-old granddaughter telling me about my childhood!

Those kids can be surprising sometimes, eh. We've had our differences with our son going back to his teens but he sent his mother a lovely message and flowers for her birthday so clearly we got something right.

Oo, cool. A mobile coffee bar. Did they have hot water for tea, too?

One of my team at work had C-19 recently but it doesn't seem to spreading here. I haven't gotten the new vax yet but maybe when I finally get around to my flu shot.

Had a fairly heavy snow overnight here. I shovelled somewhere between 20 and 30 cm off of my drive. Looks more like mid-January than mid-November. Supposed to be gone quickly, though. Temps start rising again tomorrow. Which is good. This is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too early for Ontario.

I'm probably more dangerous to myself and bystanders than to any attacker so no. That said, if I lived in certain parts of the US ... that changes to a maybe.

WYE write a story about a real person with only a light gloss to hide their identity?

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Well, except the post is now 7 years old and the poster has deleted their account so I assume it is long over. Thanks for the information you provided.

Lord of the Lost and Infected Rain hail from Germany and Moldova respectively. Both do eclectic, engaging mixes of metal styles and are led by solid lead singers/songwriters, Chris Harms for LotL and Lena Scissorhands for Infected Rain. So some wise, wise metalhead put the two together. A contender for my song of the year and one more reason why LotL's Opus Noir Vol. 2 is my most anticipated album for the remainder of 2025 (drops December 12). Vol. 1 came out in August and is already headed for my top 5 of the year.

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Big wins all over the American political landscape yesterday. Maybe we have a chance.

Yeah, I've seen some fairly upbeat writing on US politics for once. I still think there's a long road ahead and a tough row to hoe (how's that for mixing metaphors, eh?). But the GOP melting down would probably be good news up here even if we have to wait until 2028 to see Trump's ugly backside. Right now, we have Conservatives and even some Liberals (supposedly our centrist party but they tend to swing like a pendulum and are leaning right under Carney) taking some inspiration from Trump's lot even if we are generally pissed off about his handling of cross-border relations.

If you're not up to hosting it, don't host. Ruffled feathers belong on turkeys, not humans, anyhow.

Good morning! Weather is going to suck for the rest of the week and into the weekend. Showers, rain, storms, you name it. Where was this when my grass was turning brown in August?

Coffee and tea are refreshed. Cold drinks look good. How's things?

There's herbal tea in the tea drawer if that helps. 😊

Good morning!! Wet and kind of miserable here at the moment.

Coffee for the week is Kicking Horse Grizzly Claw Dark Roast. Teas are Irish Breakfast and Yorkshire Gold. Pitchers are washed and refilled with iced tea and lemonade. Sodas stocked. Annual shipment of mini-marshmallows has arrived so we've got hot chocolate available now. And there's fresh baked goods for those needing a sugar fix who don't have leftover candy around.

Temperatures drop as winter approaches.

From Pacifica (see upthread), the final official video from their new album In Your Face. Bright alt-pop/rock from Argentina is not something I expected to have on my buds but I quite like this duo.

Good morning! Happy Halloween!!

And Halloween apparently ends at 8pm Eastern Time tonight, at least for Canadians. Something about bats, but that still sounds Halloween-y to me. 😉

Fresh coffee and tea are brewed. Pitcher of iced tea and lemonade are washed and filled. Soda stock looks good.

For munchies ... hey, what else. Trick or treat goodies, of course.

But there's date squares for those not looking for a candy fix.

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It was part of the "Satanic panic" of the 80s, but I don't think it's too well known.

No, I haven't heard that one. My main experience with the whole nonsense was them going after Dungeons & Dragons since I was active in roleplaying from about 1977 to the early 90s. My church was liberal (relatively, I found out the limits of that when the denomination voted on ordaining gay ministers) so I had no issues but I heard some horror stories for sure. Maybe if I had been into metal in those days, I would have seen more of the music side but that came more recently.

Weird moment of the day. In 2020, I wrote Musings Of A Forgotten Deity for the 10th anniversary competition. And for the cover image, I found a nice pic of a ruined Greek temple overlooking the sea. Was just looking at it again and trying to remember if I even knew where it was taken. So I did a visual search. It's the Acropolis of Lindos on the island of Rhodes. I have now been there. Wish I had remembered. I might have tried to get a pic of my own from the same angle. Here's the photo I used. I'll get one of my photos of Lindos when I'm home tonight.

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Finally finding my way through the witches spell on cassette tape story.

So a 70s-90s witch? 😀 You need to do a sequel where the spell is an MP3. 😉🤣

Hi, Gil. Sorry to hear that life is still kicking you in the ass. Sending good vibes. Take care.

And good morning, all. Hot coffee and tea are refreshed and there's fresh iced tea and lemonade in the fridge.

Have a good one!

Wow, what a game last night. 18 innings. Sadly, the Jays are now down 2-1 in the series. Game 4 goes tonight, assuming anyone is able to get out of bed to play.

Coffee and tea are refreshed and here's some new goodies. Hope all are well.