Category Archives: Website Issues

American Narratives

Posted on Saturday 14 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Infrastructure note; Robert Reich on America’s four stories; Heather Cox Richardson on how Trump has no apparent plan for governance. Infrastructure note. I’ve installed an initial set of theme pages under the “NF Reviews” menu item above, which appear as … Continue reading →

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Or for Worse

Posted on Thursday 12 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

We took both our cars into the indie BMW shop we’ve been going to, for routine maintenance. In my case, I needed my car to be ship-shape before driving down to LA in a couple weeks. \ Infrastructure note. In … Continue reading →

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Another Orion Photo

Posted on Wednesday 31 January 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Plus: The wackadoodle conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl; Items about why Trump is blocking the border deal; how Trump would destroy the American-led world order; why Republicans are killing the border deal; and a handy guide … Continue reading →

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Three Philosophical/Scientific Matters

Posted on Sunday 23 July 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m spending most of today’s blog hour doing some housekeeping on the blog itself. For today’s post, just one item, sorta deep, sorta light. Big Think, Scotty Hendricks, 18 Jul 2023: 3 advances in philosophy that made science better, subtitled … Continue reading →

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Blinks Status, and Recalling Locus Online

Posted on Sunday 9 July 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Today I collected another batch of SF-related items to post on Locus Online: Locus Online: Around the Web: Samuel R. Delany; John Scalzi; Reviews by Higgins, Barnett, Tuttle, and Kunzru of books by Leckie, Djuna, Atalla, Siddiqi, and others; “The … Continue reading →

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Easing Away from Daily Posts

Posted on Sunday 30 October 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve managed to post something on this blog almost every day (I think I missed two, perhaps three days) since September 14, 2021, so for about thirteen and a half months. I think for reasons I’ll step back from that … Continue reading →

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Quick Infrastructure Note

Posted on Saturday 20 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

No substantial post today; the afternoon got away from me, then we had a birthday dinner in Alameda for Y. However I did spend part of the day reformatting and updating the Short fiction reviews page, and will continue with … Continue reading →

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Sfadb.com on Wikipedia

Posted on Tuesday 16 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve been pondering (by request) the future of Locus (magazine and website) in recent weeks, as well as my sfadb.com site. And in browsing around the web for research today, checking Wikipedia’s entry on Locus Magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_(magazine)) I saw references … Continue reading →

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Sfadb.com status at its tenth anniversary

Posted on Friday 15 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Pretty much every year I status my ongoing projects — in particular sfadb.com, and my personal and family history here on this blog — and think, this year for sure! And every year I do make some progress, but even … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure Notes, March 2021

Posted on Monday 1 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

My ongoing project is to reread (or read the first time in some cases), the essential novels and short story collections by the essential science fiction writers of the past 70 or 80 years. I’ve been focusing on the 1950’s … Continue reading →

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