Happy 10th anniversary to @serenityforgehttps://serenityforge.com/ I directed their first Kickstarter campaign back when they were working out of a basement in the foothills of Boulder. I am happy for their success, though not surprised. They were good people and they were ready to work hard to make good games.
I haven't written too much about my presentation script. I write my slideshow presentations in my Shanty markup language, and I've written a free-software script that converts them into slides.
I've written a short lecture, and this morning I was able to convert it into a presentation in ten minutes. It's all plain-text, and it's on my server, so I don't have to mess with thumb drives and format compatibility.
It's very bare-bones, but for most presentations I find it's convenient.
Montezuma, Colorado is one of the most unusual towns I've visited. At 10,200 feet (3,100 m) and population of 78, it is both one of highest and smallest towns in America. More than 1,000 people lived there in the late 19th century, but several fires and the collapse of silver mining took their toll.
Today, it's a small hodge-podge of historic buildings and modern ski getaways. There are no bars, coffee shops, or stores of any kind, and the six-dozen residents want to keep it that way.
I would contrast it with the mountain town of Ward on the Front Range. Ward is also small and wary of outsiders, but at least has a general store, art gallery, and a tavern nearby.
The Three Musketeers had memorable characters, the most interesting of which was the villain Milady. Mark Smith is a good narrator, but this audiobook used a very old translation that obscured some of the more risque parts of the story. https://archive.org/details/three_musketeers_v_2_mfs_1805_librivox
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a reading of a play, based on the best-selling novel from 1913. A silly send-up of the mystery genre. Good voice acting, the epilogue is a huge letdown.
The Illustrated Harlan Ellison is the thirty-eighth book in the #harlan_ellison directory. First published in 1978, this book features seven Ellison stories paired with rich, sumptuous illustrations by world-class artists. Includes the classic "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, the hauntingly horrific Croatoan, and the unreal Shattered Like a Glass Goblin. Also includes an essay appreciating his longtime illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon. https://www.ndhfilms.com/other/ellison/index.php#illustrated
Sorry to hear that Roger Corman has passed. Corman's influence in cinema extended even to anime: the first US theatrical release of an anime film was through his company New World Pictures. The anime film? Galaxy Express 999.
"If Stanley Kubrick gave us man humbled by the universe, Lucas gives us the universe domesticated by man. His aliens are really just humans in odd skins. For 'The Phantom Menace,' he introduces Jar Jar Binks, a fully realized computer-animated alien character whose physical movements seem based on afterthoughts. And Jabba the Hutt (who presides over the Podrace) has always seemed positively Dickensian to me."
There's going to be a little research in the Harlan Ellison Directory soon. There's one story that Harlan re-wrote the ending for when it got collected, and I've wondered what in the original ending. We will soon find out!