Endless Ends

[hotwords229_A]

Well, I'm disappointed to say that cloud cover is completely obscuring my view of the Strawberry moon.

*pouts*

Wouldn't it be nice if this moon was actually pink? Rhetorical question. I must be in a whimsical mood.

I've always like some of this particular moon's alternative names.

It was clear here and a pretty big ass moon! I wish I had thought of looking when it first rose to see the color, but oh well. Still looks amazing!

 

[Endless_Night]

People can be so unexpected.

I mentioned a series to a friend. Sci-fi/Fantasy. One that I'd started reading when younger and never finished. I'd long forgotten the name, but the world building was such that I still remember the plot of the first book, and a character name.

I expressed a desire to finish the series and frustration that I couldn't remember either author or title of the first book.

They tracked it down.

Not only tracked it down, but found all five books and had them shipped to me!

More of a feat than it may sound, as it's been a couple of decades+ since I read, and the series wasn't exactly recent when I stumbled onto the first book.

Unexpected.

Nice.

 

[Endless_Night]

Sure!

It's the Cluster series by Piers Anthony.

Honestly, I'm surprised I didn't remember the author at least. One of my parents had several of his series - Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality, Adept?.

I've heard he's considered a tad problematic these days, for a high level of female objectification. Idk, I guess I'll see.

I definitely remember reading several of the Xanth novels and loving them.

 

[Endless_Night]

I did something I never do today. No, seriously, ever. It’s been…idk, years.

I went. Into. A Walmart.

Yes. That soul-sucking black hole populating city and countryside alike.

*shudders*

I am now entirely prostrated.


(And I didn’t even find what I was looking for.)

* * *

In more upbeat news, as I parked for the grocery store I saw an older gentleman leaving. He was wearing wild multicolored pants and a loose-knit cable tee.

Pajamas. Obviously.

He nodded, and strolled insouciantly through the parking lot to his car.

My hero.

 

[Endless_Night]

I may have unearthed a hitherto unknown - at least to me - golden-age mystery author! One of whose novels (The Beast Must Die, 1938) happens to have just been adapted last year by AMC.



That would be Nicholas Blake*, author of the Nigel Strangeway's detective series.

(Real name C. Day-Lewis. A poet of some repute, hence the pseudonym. Father of Daniel Day-Lewis, the actor.)


I have order the first two books.

 

[cascadiabound]

This is How You Lose the Time War.

Most unusual book I've read in years. Part poetry, part literary fiction, part sci-fi, part time travel, wholly love story. Amazing pierce of work spun in epistolatory form. A novella.

Truly a genre breaking piece of fiction.

I'm getting ready to start it again.


Anyone else read it?

With that recommendation it'll be my next read. I'm a sucker for time travel/sci fi/unusual or groundbreaking formats

 

[cascadiabound]

Was sent this and found it amusing.

https://i.imgur.com/AM25JS2.jpg

"Ravenous Temptress"

That's me.

Ravenous.

Me too! Ravenous!

 

[Endless_Night]

Cascadia!

With that recommendation it'll be my next read. I'm a sucker for time travel/sci fi/unusual or groundbreaking formats

Ooooh. Please, do let me know what you think. I would Love to hear!

Me too! Ravenous!

Must be going around.

 

[Endless_Night]

This house. Is going. To kill me.


I shouldn't be surprised.

It's outlived it's builders.

 

[hotwords229_A]

This house. Is going. To kill me.


I shouldn't be surprised.

It's outlived it's builders.

This sounds like a good spine tingler. ”Terror in the Rafters”. It will scare you to your foundation.

 

[Endless_Night]

This sounds like a good spine tingler. ”Terror in the Rafters”. It will scare you to your foundation.

*gasps*

You wordsmith you!

Muscles and wordsmithery. That hardly seems fair….

You are conscripted for blurbing my books.

Consider this official notice.

 

[Endless_Night]

Now.

Day Three of foam board, construction adhesive, extra long screws, 100+ degree heat, and a pier and beam foundation.

Forgive me, Lord, for ALL my previous sins.

 

[ydahecnot]

Now.

Day Three of foam board, construction adhesive, extra long screws, 100+ degree heat, and a pier and beam foundation.

Forgive me, Lord, for ALL my previous sins.

Games with Cowslinger?

 

[Endless_Night]

Games with Cowslinger?

Egad.

You have just added considerably to the trauma of my day.

(Insulation.)

 

[Endless_Night]

July full moon coming up. Third of projected four Supermoons in a row!

Four is probably significant, astrologically (or something) speaking, but, honestly, I'm too tired to look it up.

Maybe tomorrow.

 

[hotwords229_A]

https://static-ca-cdn.eporner.com/gallery/N3/xb/7WcRO6DxbN3/46277-cant-say-i-was-ever-this-happy-about-wearing-a-har.gif

After a hard day of work you need to shake that sweat off and relax.

 

[Endless_Night]

https://static-ca-cdn.eporner.com/gallery/N3/xb/7WcRO6DxbN3/46277-cant-say-i-was-ever-this-happy-about-wearing-a-har.gif

After a hard day of work you need to shake that sweat off and relax.

That just looks…painful.

 

[investor2020]

Sign of the times ? or investment opportunity?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/vampire-slaying-kit-sells-15k-auction

 

[Endless_Night]

Sign of the times ? or investment opportunity?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/vampire-slaying-kit-sells-15k-auction

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

*big eyes*

It's got fitted compartments for everything! Twin dueling* pistols! A gothic bible! Swanky locking mechanism!

I need this.

NEEEEEEEEEEEEED

As to the original question, let's go with hedging all bets?

 

[hotwords229_A]

That is pretty cool!

 

[hotwords229_A]

So I watched “Mosquito” 1994 (terrible) and Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s revenge (1988) featuring an early appearance by Pauly Shore of all people.

Phantom was merely okay. It was shot at the same mall as the far superior Chopping Mall. It was fun to see the old stores and realize how much shopping malls suck now.

Mosquito was really, really, really bad, but some of the effects were top notch which was strange for such a terribly acted, directed and written movie. The scene where the giant mosquito slams his proboscis into a naked girl’s butt cheek was particularly fun (not for her of course).

I hope you are watching lots of cheesy movies and will report back soon!

 

[Endless_Night]

Life has been wearing as of late. Today seemed like the perfect time to watch a B Sci-fi movie. Something extra fine and recherché. A little thread perusal pulled up Rubber (2011). A suggestion from Hotwords some time back. The trailer is ah-mazing.


It started out so well: “An homage to No Reason”

Questions:

-Was that a real scorpion that got smooshed? ‘Cause, if so, mad.

-Tire: Why is what should be the metal rim rubber? And why is the tire filled in? Electronics?

Good Stuff:

-The. Tire. Breathes.

-Reincarnated as a tricycle!

-Tricycle with a tire gang.


Annnnd, sadly that was about it. Turns out all the good stuff was included in the trailer.

#desolate



I may have to fall back on Weresquito: Nazi Hunter. It, unlike life and men, has yet to fail me.

 

[Endless_Night]

In other news, I have procured a flotation device.

 

[aim2plz412]

In other news, I have procured a flotation device.

Be sure to follow the recommendation for full inflation, for support and safety.

 

[investor2020]

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