Entertainment
These entries are about entertainment made by other people – books, movies, musical theatre, and so on.
If you’re interested in entertainment made by me, check out Art and creativity or Fun stuff.
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The Star-Spangled Ballad
If you listen carefully to the Ballad of Willie Watkins, you might hear another song peeking through.
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo
A fledgling author uses a theatre trip to leave the nest. (Or: some props I made for a cosplay event.)
Spy for Spy
A two-handed sapphic romance with a clever narrative twist makes for a compelling and thoughtful new play.
Finding books in nearby library branches
Some web scraping and Python helps me find books that I can borrow immediately.
A Martian plaque for a made-up plot
If NASA was the first to land on Mars in For All Mankind, what would the commemorative plaque look like?
Fictional phone numbers in For All Mankind
Where did this UK phone number come from?
How I read non-fiction books
I take notes so I remember more of what I read.
Keeping track of my book recommendations
The three lists I use to manage my book recommendations.
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There’s a musical that tells you the number of minutes in a year
The song Seasons of Love from Rent starts with the line “Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes”.