Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
The scientists responsible for accidentally giving Will Payton his powers send their own super-powered goons after him.
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Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
The scientists responsible for accidentally giving Will Payton his powers send their own super-powered goons after him.
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Title and Author | Date Read | Summary | Link |
"What About the Rapists and Murderers?", by Angel Parker | January 15, 2024 | Article trying to answer the question about prison abolition and violent crime - found this one frustrating as it offered no solutions to the issue at all. | https://medium.com/@amparker/what-about-the-rapists-and-murderers-7a81955b772c (web archive) |
"Should police officers be able to get away with having sex with detainees?" | January 15, 2024 | Stats: In 2015, after a year-long investigation, the Associated Press revealed that in the six-year period from 2009 to 2014, about 550 police officers had lost their badges for rape, sodomy and other types of sexual assault; and a further 440 for possession of child pornography and other sex crimes; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens, sexting juveniles, or having consensual but prohibited sex while on duty. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/549072/549072/ (web archive) |
"THE DANGEROUS FEW: TAKING SERIOUSLY PRISON ABOLITION AND ITS SKEPTICS", by Thomas Ward Frampton | January 23, 2024 | Notes for this article, which is 40 pages long, under the cut. | https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/135-Harv.-L.-Rev.-2013.pdf (web archive) |
"Can Prison Abolition Ever be Pragmatic?", by Nathan J Robinson | February 1, 2024 | Prison abolition and prison reform can actually be reconciled fairly easily. The ultimate goal is prison abolition, because in a world without hatred and violence there would be no need for prisons, and the goal is a world without hatred and violence. In the interim, prisons must be made better and more humane. | https://transformharm.org/ab_resource/can-prison-abolition-ever-be-pragmatic/ (web archive) |
"NYC to pay $125K to woman who accused two NYPD cops of rape in last-minute civil suit settlement", by John Annese | January 15, 2024 | Connected to ‘Should police officers be able to get away with having sex with detainees?’ article. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/549072/549072/ (web archive) |
Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
30 (78.9%)
Days by James Lovegrove
1 (2.6%)
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
8 (21.1%)
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
3 (7.9%)
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
14 (36.8%)
Titan by Stephen Baxter
8 (21.1%)
Writer: Ron Marz
Pencils: Ron Lim
Inks: Tom Christopher
Jack of Hearts really doesn’t interest me as a character, so I am going to concentrate on Nebula instead.
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Sal Buscema
The peril of the Plunderer!
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Welcome back to Cover Snark!
Amanda: Is she poopin?
Elyse: The moment you realize it wasn’t just a fart.
Sarah: That’s what the rose is for. She might need a few more for poo-pourri purposes.
(Also, hand to heaven, if you have to share a bathroom, especially while traveling, Poo-Pourri works REALLY well.)
Elyse: I hope that’s a typo.
Sarah: $10 says the title came first and the book was built around it.
Elyse: Did a 12 year old boy come up with it?
I’m all for a good double entendres but lord.
Maya: So is the pitch she’s a grieving widow and he has priapism?
Sarah: If it lasts longer than three chapters, please call your doctor.
From PamG: It’s definitely not the original nor illustrated, but it’s all kindsa ugly. Looks like a gruesome assemblage of body parts in a puddle of blood. It’s pretty repellent to me.
Sarah: Are they melting? Too close to the space heater? Sunbathing on a volcano that woke up? What on earth?
Amanda: Is Before Girl like a timeframe indicator like BC and AD?
Sarah: Judging by the cover, it marks the start of catastrophic global warming.
From Leslie: Misdirected Mae? And why is the guy dead? At least, his torso is dead. Maybe what is in his pants (or in the mailbox) is not dead. Hard to say.
Sarah: I can’t believe I’m typing these words, but: the mailbox penis is not subtle.
Amanda: I thought that was a stack of maxi pads at first.
Tara: My first thought was “dick in a (mail)box.”
Sarah: If step one is to cut a hole in the (mail)box, and step two is to put your dick in that (mail)box, is step three a visit from the postmaster general?
I just posted the last story for the hurt/comfort series! I started writing this sometime in... February? When I was just trying to find the joy of writing again in the middle of personal and world overwhelm. And slowly, I got back to where I wanted :) As noted by a friend, the series has 25 stories (which is absolutely coincidental but I will pretend was Totally The Plan, 25 for 2025 yay XD), and nearly 40k words. I think one of the things I wanted to teach myself with the series is also that not everything has to be edited to death. Everything having to do with editing started to feel like an gigantic, impossible ordeal after how long it took for the original novella.
I have some ideas about what I'd like to work on next (back to the Cursed Witch, hopefully! 🤞), but we'll see what happens :)
Over the course of the 19th Century, the cost of wages relative to the cost of other things rose dramatically, so people had fewer servants and fewer people could afford to have servants. And still, Agatha Christie remembered that when she was young "I couldn’t imagine being too poor to afford servants, nor so rich as to be able to afford a car." She did not grow up wealthy, she grew up middle class. Even in 1900, your average middle-class person in England could not imagine being too poor to afford servants.
This changed radically over the course of the 20th Century; now a middle class person might have a cleaner who comes in once a week, but they definitely will not be able to afford a full-time servant. You have to be wealthy to afford that. So we assume that servants are a mark of huge wealth even in historical periods, when they just ... weren't. This is not helped by the fact that novels set in period times (whether written then or later) rarely mention the servants, so you can read, say, an Austen novel and not have any clue what sort of servants they have. But unless you have researched the issue, it's best to assume they have more servants than you think they had.
*\o/* | Word Count | Step Count | Headache? |
Daily | 1,643 | 10,044 | no |
Monthly | 16,158 | 233,349 | 9 days |