Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
https://suno.com/song/b9544b42-9186-4039-a749-493aeea897b8
For those concerned about the misuses of LLMs, aka AIs, it’s worth noting that Suno will literally block you from using artists names in prompts, and this Kipling poem is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain.
I felt that the Dashwoods, Ferrarses, and Edward’s secret fiancee needed to all be treated in one post, so here we are with the rest of this large cast of characters…
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, the Rest of the Characters” →I recently finished listening to this book on Librivox (the Karen Savage reading), and decided to start blogging again about adapting Jane Austen. For an introductory essay on the subject, go here. For subsequent essay, click on the Jane Austen category in this blog. As usual, we start with the characters:
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, The Dashwoods and Ferrarses” →Okay, from a certain point of view, this should be kind of disturbing: an Italian singer, father of the actress who played the devil in Passion of the Christ, is practicing Babel-style confusion of tongues while his grimaces, imposing teeth and bad hair make him look a bit like Henry Blake, Sir Christopher Lee’s Hyde-style persona from I Monster.
But really, it’s just a fun parody of American style pop songs done with nonsense lyrics. Enjoy!
Thoughts below, including several cases where my speculations based on the teaser proved wrong…
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, Season Two Behind the Scenes” →To those who are not familiar with the movies and tv show being referenced, no explanation is possible. To those who are, no explanation is necessary. To those who whine about how awful the source movies are: I have so little respect for your opinions that I am not even doing you the courtesy of putting these beneath the fold.
So, here’s my final review on the bookbinding kit that I bought:
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Adventures in Bookbinding, Part 3” →The third bookbinding project in this kit was somewhat more complicated. It involved sewing multiple signatures (sets of folded paper leaves) together over linen “tapes” using something called a kettle stitch. The end product was what the instructions called “an adventurer’s journal” and I called a naked text block, ready to be “cased in” (bookbinding term for putting a cool cover on a fully assembled text block). Not everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but a fair amount did…
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Adventures in Bookbinding, Part 2” →So, sometime back I watched this video and it got me interested in bookbinding and rebinding. I looked at a few videos, and tracked down a self-contained kit on Amazon. Thoughts and pictures below.
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Adventures in Book Binding, Part 1” →We’ve discussed the origins of the feisty girl/posh guy idea before, and the evolution of the feisty girl in my head into Chloe Fortabat of Wolf’s Trail. The evolution of the posh guy was less dramatic, because for a long time I thought primarily of him as a foil to the heroine. Here are the different phases, numbered to match the entries under Feisty Girl:
Continue reading “Where Did That Come From? The Posh Guy in Wolf’s Trail” →
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