It is time y'all. Time for team Space Lasagna to announce the difficult decision we've been mulling these last few months. After announcing our quarterfinalists in November, we've completed our review of these ten fine offerings. We are proud to announce the three books moving on to the semifinals (linked reviews by Rese Horn). AContinue reading "SPSFC: Semifinalists"

After much consternation, deliberation, and probably another unnamed "ation" or two, Team Space Lasagna is proud to announce the quarterfinalists for The SPSFC. Each team member read at lest 10-20% of 31 books this fall. We chose the 10 best books to move on to the quarterfinals as follows (in no particular order): A StarContinue reading "SPSFC: Quarterfinalists"

For Round One, Team Space Lasagna is reading 10%-20% of three books each week. We'll each evaluate whether we want to continue reading each based on initial impressions. The ten books with the most "Yes" votes after round 1A (The Culling) will move on to round 1B for a full readthrough. The top 3 fromContinue reading "SPSFC: The Culling – Week 1"

Rabbits by Terry Miles Started 6/22/21 | Finished 6/23/21 | Format: Kindle ebook | Genre: Sci-Fi Sometimes a bad book can still be a fun read. Not to say Rabbits is necessarily a bad book, but I certainly wouldn't call it great either. That didn't stop me from devouring all 400+ pages in a littleContinue reading "Big Bearded Book Review: Rabbits"

I've been thinking about writing a lot lately. Not actually writing mind you, just thinking about it. After many years of blogging, and short stories I've been on a bit of a break. OK, it's been a long break, like over five years. Sure, I've filled the void with other creative endeavors, mainly painting littleContinue reading "SPSFC and Me"

Funny how things work out sometimes. I've been feeling the pull to write a lot lately, but every time I sit down I seem to come up empty. Then, a couple weeks ago, a friend posted his "Playlist for the Apocalypse" and started blogging about the political commentary found in some of his favorite music.Continue reading "The Music That Made Me – Part Two: You Don’t Know How it Feels"

Funny how things work out sometimes. I've been feeling the pull to write a lot lately, but every time I sit down I seem to come up empty. Then, a couple weeks ago, a friend posted his "Playlist for the Apocalypse" and started blogging about the political commentary found in some of his favorite music.Continue reading "The Music that Made Me – Part One: Tones of Home"

OK, I know I just posted like two days ago, but my birthday was on a Thursday and that felt like the right time to kick things off. I'm looking to write one a week so I'm just dropping this here in order to bump the cycle back to the weekend. So, you get aContinue reading "Week One – Birthdays and Summer Pillows"

Rough draft snippet from a story I've been throwing around a bit, expanding off my short story Simmon. The are was crisp against his skin as Simmon stepped out into the morning.  The sky looked especially blue today, most likely on account of the weeks of grey and wet Albany had endured recently. His horse wasContinue reading "The 13th Stone"