In Placer County, we have lonnnng summers. We'll get summerlike weather from June all the way up until around Halloween, albeit punctuated with some rain and thunder and lightning in the last couple of months. Right now we keep getting rain and lightning in the morning, and muggy and hot in the afternoon. At least … Continue reading August Was Hot. The Movies Were Not.
They’re Watching Us
Time to crack open those books... H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds seems to be the Michael J. Fox of sci-fi in that plenty of other sci-fi stories want to be it really, really badly, and some are more overt about it than others. John Christopher's wonderful Tripod series is definitely an homage to … Continue reading They’re Watching Us
Taking Up Room 