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📚 Clarkesworld Issue 206 edited by Neil Clarke

November 22, 2023November 19, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

64/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Standouts in this issue for me were James Van Pelt’s “The Long Mural” and Louise Hughes’s “The Parts That Make Me”.

Me holding Clarkesworld Issue 206 on my iPad

Year 50 Day 200

November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me with a goofy smile and raised eyebrows, holding a piece of Tortino's pizza.

Day 200: Science still hasn’t determined the cause of the occasional craving for the tasty tasty cardboard goodness of a Totino’s Party Pizza, but when it hits, it hits.

Year 50 Day 199

November 17, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me in front of our living room window, with light in the sky and the sun setting through the trees.

Day 199: We actually made it home while the sun was still up today! It wasn’t a bad week, but it was a long one, and we’re both happy to be at the weekend and looking forward to the long weekend next week.

📚 Uncanny Issue 55 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Monte Lin, and Betsy Aoki

January 7, 2025November 17, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

63/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

My favorites this issue were Naomi Kritzer’s “The Year Without Sunshine”, Cecil Castelluci’s “We’re Looking for the Best”, and John Scalzi’s “Speed Racer’s Long Road”, which actually has me thinking about rewatching Speed Racer, which I haven’t seen since it first hit video.

Me holding Uncanny Issue 55

Year 50 Day 198

November 16, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me outside on a college campus at dusk, with an expression somewhere between goofy and exasperated.

Day 198: This is my “getting off campus later than expected for the third day in a row” face.

Year 50 Day 197

November 15, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me against a plain wall, wearing a t-shirt that says 'There are no fake geeks, only real jerks'.

Day 197: Nothing fancy today, just a t-shirt I like. All it takes to be a “real” fan of something is to be a fan. No gatekeeping allowed!

Year 50 Day 196

November 14, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me standing in front of a scene of trees, water in the background, and a very pretty sunset, deep orange near the horizon lightening through yellow to a very pale blue at the top of the photo.

Day 196: We got a really pretty sunset over the sound tonight.

Year 50 Day 195

November 13, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me holding a bit of candy shaped roughly like a person, red, and dusted with a white powder. I have a slightly skeptical expression on my face.

Day 195: We continue to work our way through treats we brought back from London. Today’s experiment: Jelly Babies. We’ve decided they’re weird. Not bad, but definitely on the weird side of things. They look like a gummy candy, but then the outside is a little tougher than expected, and the inside is quite a bit gooshier than expected.

Year 50 Day 194

November 12, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me on a couch with a wooden tray on my lap, concentrating on assembling a Lego project. The instruction booklet is balanced on the tray, which holds a selection of Lego pieces.

Day 194: As part of getting ready for the next fall holiday, I’m in charge of the fall foliage centerpiece for the table. Which, in a rather brilliant move, considering my flower arrangement skills, is one of the Lego botanicals kits. Got most of the way through this evening, and should finish it tomorrow.

Year 50 Day 193

November 11, 2023 by Michael Hanscom

Me sitting in the corner of a couch, with a bookshelf full of Stephen King books visible behind me.

Day 193: Another slow, relaxing day of doing very little. We started the day with watching Mean Girls, which I’d not seen before, and then made it through the first three episodes of Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Not a bad day at all!