Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

Summer Reading Review: Fifteen Dogs

Somewhere around midnight, Rose, a German shepherd, stopped as she was licking her vagina and wondered how long she would be in the place she found herself. She then wondered what had happened to the last litter she’d whelped. It suddenly seemed grossly unfair that one should go through the trouble of having pups only to lose track of them (15)

Our Summer Reading and Summer Weekend Movie Reviews generally consist of older material, things we missed the first time around or that might not immediately occur to the Bureau-crats. Fifteen Dogs, a fabulous (in the original sense) award-winning short novel tells the tale of some Toronto canines who achieve sentience on the whim of a couple of gods.

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Summer Movie Review: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975)

With the hyperbolic miniseries adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s celebrated novel currently in first run, our first Summer Movie Review of July 2018 looks back to 1975, and Peter Weir’s handling of the same material. Critics widely hail Picnic at Hanging Rock as a defining moment in Australian cinema. How does the film, a sort of Merchant Ivory meets The Twilight Zone, play more than 42 years later?

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The Expanse: “Delta V”

The Expanse may be saved by Amazon, and we may yet see another season. If we don’t, at least we have the remainder of Season Three, which plays like the start of a new season. Months have passed since the events depicted in “Immolation,” humans are trying to work together, our ragtag band of heroes have been, to some degree, separated, multiple new characters appear, and the protomolecule’s machinations have fabricated a vast and bewildering mystery object.

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Penguicon 2018

I’ve been absent from Michigan’s Penguicon, a meeting of SF/Fantasy Fandom, Open Source / Linux, Hackers, and other loosely-related tribes, for five years. I’m glad I returned. The event has changed, but it remains an experience worth having.

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