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yeah that one gave me the creeps.

Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.

I'll be on this stream in about 35 minutes with @shaunduke.net to interview @obrackenbury.bsky.social and Molly Tanzer about modern takes on the good old fantasy subgenre of Sword g Sorcery!

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Tonight, 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern, @skiffyandfanty.com returns with a new live episode at twitch.tv/alphabetstreams

We are going to talk to @obrackenbury.bsky.social and Molly Tanzer about @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Join us!

A PRavetz IMKO-1 computer. Has a weird-looking keyboard, a bulbous monitor, and an audio-casette player hooked into it for data storage.

We celebrated our 10th anniversary of blogging back in February of last year. To mark the occasion, we posted one of the stupidest things we've ever written.

Some people didn't find it funny, but I'm still giggling about Pravetz IMKO computers and Billy Zane.

hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-o...

Hot Take: The Abstraction of Science Fiction Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

Honestly, I thought this piece would get us more angry rebuttals than we got.

But I genuinely think that the anti-modernity aesthetic argument made by many arch-conservative SFF fans has roots in fascist thinking of the 1920s. I still love this piece.

hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...

Worldcon In An Age Of American Truculence Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

"Worldcon In An Age Of American Truculence" is something we're still thinking about. Think we might end the blog post differently if we wrote it now, a year later.

But I think it's an important conversation to be having.

hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/04/worl...

The Nukes Of Hazard Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

In September, we looked at the flourishing of atomic war depictions in cinema of the 1980s in a piece we called "The Nukes of Hazard."

Spent a lot of time watching depressing movies for this, but some of them were truly excellent. Threads stands up well today.

hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Marooned in the Undying Lands Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

We mused about the end of history, and the malaise of narratives with nothing left to achieve in a piece we called "Marooned in the Undying Lands."

I was particularly pleased with the quip calling the TV show Rings of Power "How Galadriel Got Her Groove Back."

hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/01/maro...

Looking back at our posts from 2025, I sort of think it was a particularly good year for our blog.

Going to re-post links to five favourite pieces we published in this thread.

Would love your Hugo-nominating votes if you think we earned them this year.

Very well: 5 US #KindleBookGiveaway copies of @authorizedmusings.bsky.social's Burn Up in Victory, which I describe as Bridgerton with magic and swordfights. It's *fun* and sweet. There is kissing. All over the place.

indeed, have to carve out time for my re-read

awww nice

Travis Bickle reads a book bout metals.

Darla from the Crow has been cut up by bad men. Jane Crawford offers a reward for killing the man. Mitchell Gant is coaxed out of retirement. He hits the trail alongside Lucius Fox . Albus Dumbledore and Lex Luthor co-star.

Red Grant, Wilson from "Home Improvement," the ill-fated private investigator from "Psycho" and the hotel manager from "Pretty Woman" hijack a subway, and Oscar Madison and Frank Costanza have to stop them.

When Gus the Theatre Cat enacts a nefarious scheme with his allies Alexis Meade, Ajax and Darth Maul, his former friend Jean Luc Picard sends in a team of Catwoman, Sonic's Cop Friend, Xenia Onatopp, P. T. Barnum and Jane Eyre to stop him.

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the bride!
Gyllenhaal: the exclamation point denotes excitement
Gyllenhaal: please clap

Mary Shelley: i consent
Percy Shelley: i consent
Lord Byron: i consent
Gravestone of Mary Wollstonecraft: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

now THAT is a fine idea. Putting a pin in that one. Thank you!

just to be clear, I think the best way to go is:

1. very strict school vaccine mandates
2. end parent's ability to deny kids vaccines
3. a massive public health information outreach campaign explaining to parents why vaccines are necessary.

none of this involves scolding or yelling at parents.

Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

New KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF podcast episode drops, feat. idiot plotting in RPGs, Project AZORIAN, the Green Man, and Erich von Däniken!! www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...

A rose in lights

331. #photography From a MN Arboretum Winter light show in 2023

Great Egrets
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

Tell a movie's plot through other characters played by the actors.

Mia Thermopolis runs away from the "Sammy, those are fucking onions" man and goes back to her hometown, where Ted Lasso inflicts domestic violence on her.

Also, The Leader is there.

John Bender battles Mr Spock for a magic gem containing the soul of The Predator. Meanwhile Charles Foster Kane eats the moon.

Just remembered this excellent game

James Bond has to try to work out who killed Captain Von Trapp. Was it Wanda Gershwitz? Captain America? Muriel Heslop? Sonny Crockett? General Zod? Or Fozzie Bear?

Purple hyacinths and leaves in a container with brown soil and dried brown leaves. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. February 2025. A neighbor's front yard.

🌅Good morning!
Wishing you a wonderful Friday!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors Interior of a garden container.

#PurpleFriday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

been a year since I played this game. Thanks to this and an @theincomparable.com game show episode...

Tell a movie's plot through other characters played by the actors.

A Scanner Darkly: John Wick, Tim Speedle, Tony Stark, and Woody Boyd are slackers addicted to a drug. Amanda Grayson is a narc.