I have been reading and following your reviews with interest, but can’t engage much as I have found it difficult to get copies from local comic stores in a timely way. I usually have more success preordering the omnibus versions, and really welcome the reviews to help decide which ones to invest in.
So, it might be helpful to have a running thread for each comic series rather than a separate one for each issue.
Working through ‘Ten Low’ by Stark Holburn now. My partner is through the sequel already and recommended.
Love Scalzi but wish he could vary his voice more. I find I have to spread out reading his books as the snark will all blur after a while.
The orgy in The Diamond Age isn’t much better.
Stephenson got a pass on a lot of his weird stuff.
I found The Sea of Tranquility a bit dry but whimsical nonetheless.
In a genre overburdened by books with two dimensional characters and core dumps of exposition, it was an interesting puzzle but it also isn’t making me want to reread it either. 7.5 or 8.
Hugely disappointed by The Diamond Age after Snow Crash. It really lost the plot.
So, when the Shatnerverse finally gets its month basking in the glow of ebook deals, will that signal the auspicious moment to create the Treklit sub?
Just asking for a friend…
Yes but I had noted that there’s been a previous 2 decade installation on Granville in Vancouver elsewhere on the thread.
There’s been a lot of success with these in Europe, less in North America.
I was referring to the one in Vancouver.
I wouldn’t call it a ‘trial’.
It was in place for a couple of decades. Agreed that it failed in the end, as did Rideau street in Ottawa.
There’s good reason to be cautious. These don’t always work well, and security can become an issue. Changing the built environment to support safe and active public spaces is challenging.
It would be great to know what factors make a pedestrian mall in a downtown core work well over the long haul and which don’t.
In the 1970s, several Canadian cities emulated European ones and created pedestrian spaces in their cores. Vancouver had a good length of Granville ‘theatre row’ closed for decades and Ottawa had Rideau closed to all but public transit. A great deal of infrastructure investment was made to make them appealing pedestrian spaces. Ottawa still has Sparks street completely vehicle free in the Parliamentary precinct.
Both Granville and Rideau were eventually reopened to traffic after they became crime focal points. Both were places women felt safe to walk on in the evening in the late 70s and early 80s, but by the 90s many pedestrians avoided them during the day and businesses left, replaced by boarded up storefronts.
All to say, not such a simple public good question as some are presenting here.
Moopsie was made to be an animaguri.
Crochet is so great at at making weird 3D shapes.
Something cute and round like a moopsie would be a snap. (Also, easier than the Pokémons one of our kids have asked for. Inevitable that the ones they want most are in the advanced category in the official Pokémon animaguri books.)
If not a plushie, Paramount should at least be licensing a book of Star Trek animaguri.