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Tony Laplume: Born in 1980. Graduated from college in 2003. Have written various things.

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Dan & Sally's Digital Domain

Casa Cabeza in Review: Top Posts of 2024 - Our last two posts will be reversed this year. We usually write something like a Christmas letter in this space this week and then do a Top Posts entry i...
Martin Millar - blog

Two Supercute Novels - My two cyberpunk/kawaii novels, *Supercute Futures* and *Supercute Second Future*. *'...We have plenty of explosives…Tell Sachi they're in a pink bag wi...
Insecure Writer's Support Group

Why Substack? - I jumped into Substack without much information about how it worked. I’d become dissatisfied with my WordPress website because it was always breaking ...
Alex J. Cavanaugh

Insecure Writer’s Support Group and January Movie Preview - It’s time for another group posting of the* Insecure Writer’s Support Group!* Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those wh...
Michael Abayomi

Gladiator 2 (Movie Review) - After what has felt like a lifetime in development hell, we finally have a sequel to the largely beloved historical epic, Gladiator. Released in 2000, t...
Silliman's Blog

- Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that unit of...
Regarding Silexare

Reviving Regarding... - I'd love to visit this blog more often. I miss talking to folks and expressing myself here. As I hinted at in the last post, I haven't been around because ...
Yes, This Will Be On The Test Leslie S. Rose

What Would You Like to Hear? - Raise your hand if you're into podcasts? *Raises hand* Love 'em. My favorite is "The Good Place" podcast hosted by Marc Evan Jackson. I'm a mega-fan of t...
mothersofbrothersblog

1001. It's Just A Sunflower - Yep. I’m back. It’s really me. Had to think about it for five years, but then I decided to write something. Here goes: The Husband has always plante...
Nigel G. Mitchell - Author, Blogger, Geek

Available: "Little Green Men: The Complete Novel" - All three parts of the *Little Green Men* serial are now assembled into one volume, Little Green Men: The Complete Novel. Saving the world was just the ...
B L A S T F O R T U N E

He's The Only 32 He'll Ever Be - Happy Birthday, Brother - *Haiku(s)* *by CMJ* *Peeking in I saw* *Skin and sex raw beneath sheets* *sigh! A sullen boy…* *The things I wanted* *accumulate into things* *in a ...
Pensuasion

Insecure Writer's Support Group - It's the first Wednesday of the month and time for a new Insecure Writer's Support Group post. Thank you so much to *Alex J. Cavanaugh* for starting this...
Plan D - The Official Website of Derek M. Koch

Movies Watched in 2015 (offered with no comment) - I managed to somehow mess up my Google Doc of my movies-watched-for-the-year master list, so I don't really have the normal stats - first time viewings, et...
Civil War Horror

My latest post-apocalyptic novel out now! - *We Had Flags*, the third in my Toxic World series of post-apocalyptic novels, is out now. The series starts with *Radio Hope* and continues with *Refuge...
Pearls Before Swine

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did. - Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning. He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence. Few i...
Shadow Manor

Happy New Year - So 2014 has arrived and once again I have decided to try and be a little more active on this blog. Last year I wanted to get back to writing and I did...to...

My Other Blogs

Scouring Monk

#949. Lineage of Song: “I Got a Woman” - Ray CharlesKanye WestJamie Foxx turned his starring role in Ray into a gig for a hot minute, which means his spot in “Gold Digger.”
Film Fan

Gladiator II (2024) Review - *the story*: Nearly twenty years after Maximus took on Commodus with the fate of the Roman Empire at stake, his story unexpectedly concludes. *rating*: ...
Your Torch Will Be Snuffed

Survivor 47 - originally aired September 18, 2024 to December 18, 2024 The order players were eliminated and the impact they left behind: - *Jon* (Gata) Probably o...
Sigild V

The Duke: "Wanderer," Pages 1-22 - PAGE ONE Panel 1 (splash) The Duke, standing in a dark street corner, lighting a cigarette, cupping his free hand around the flame from the match. ...
Star Trek Fan Companion

A fond farewell to Star Trek: Discovery - About a month and a half ago Paramount+ released the last episode of *Discovery*, “Life, Itself.” I guess I didn’t offer thoughts sooner because I neede...
Hub Citi

The incredible wealth of talent behind Band of Brothers - Back in 2001, HBO screened *Band of Brothers* for the first time. Recently it was picked as HBO's *best* original programming ever. Created as a sort of ...

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What I've Been Reading

Tony's bookshelf: read

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

by Jonathan Swift

Extremely interesting but also esoteric and drastically more limited in lasting appeal than Swift's more famous Gulliver's Travels. Basically the equivalent of Internet chatter in his day.