It’s been 8 days (as I write this) since the second season of MST3K dropped to Netflix. They are calling it “the Gauntlet <insert weird hand gesture here>” and imply that Jonah and the bots have to watch six hideous movies in a row, which is kind of a riff on the dedicated fans who …
Author: Uncle Josh
Uncle Josh Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2018
I “lost” 2018. Am I upset? Kind of. Did I have “unusual circumstances”? No more so than usual. My wife having a trip to the Emergency Room and then surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving were tough things to bear at the time, but in the end they shouldn’t have affected my writing schedule all that …
Uncle Josh on the Thirteenth Doctor (Part 1 of ?)
I finally watched “The Witchfinder” and read the review on io9 and the comments. I cannot comment there for various troublesome login reasons, so I thought I would blather over here. The io9 review points out that this is the first story where the now-female Doctor is being held back because of her gender. There …
Uncle Josh on the Challenges of Gifts
The following is a short undated journal entry torn out of one the few billion Moleskin notebooks I have purchased over the years. The first challenge of having a gift is accepting it. The second challenge is accepting acknowledgment for those gifts. The third is the challenge of feeling the gift abandon you in the …
Uncle Josh Ponders Portland Measure 26-200
The basics: Limits contributions to $500 per individual, $5,000 loan balance from candidate, with no limits from small donor committees (which are capped at $100 per individual). I usually scan the number of arguments in favor and opposition to these measures. There are 18 arguments in favor, and only 5 in opposition. Oddly, both sides …
Uncle Josh Reviews “The Last Biker Gang” by Will McCarthy
This is a story about age and technology and how we as a culture throw people away. Alan Szcyltz is 84, long retired, recently divorced, and fed up. He inhabits a world of robotic autonomous vehicles that are pushing human-driven vehicles off the road and a large house with several empty rooms that pretty much …