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Charlie Jade

Hmm. What to say about Charlie Jade? It’s a freaky little SF show you’ve probably never heard of. I hadn’t, until Preston mentioned it in his blog. I was intrigued enough to go looking for the episodes. They…

Posted on May 15 2007, 3:58 pm in Recommended, Television · 1 comment

Book reviews: Greywalker

Greywalker: A Greywalker Novel (Book 1)

I’m going to try to remember to actually review the books I’m reading instead of just mentioning them in passing. We’ll see how long this resolution lasts, but in the meantime, here’s what I thought of Kat Richardson’s Greywalker.…

Posted on April 25 2007, 6:23 pm in Books, Recommended · comment

Music recommendations again

To everyone who liked Anna Nalick: try KT Tunstall, Tina Dico, and Over the Rhine. Excellent stuff, if you go for altos-with-guitars (and of course I do). Anything else in that vein I should check out? I’m always on the…

Posted on April 15 2006, 9:02 pm in Music, Recommended · 2 comments

Recommended: His Majesty’s Dragon

So I said I’d be posting recommended stuff, and here’s the first: His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik. This was already out in the UK (as Temeraire) and has been getting a fair amount of buzz on my

Posted on March 31 2006, 9:37 am in Books, Recommended · comment