About green Man Review

I have an excuse: I ws in the hospital and then the site was down but, better late than never:

SF from G. Willow Wilson, R F Kuang, Emery Robin, Everina Maxwell, Larry Niven, and some detective fiction; Persepolis; Vonnegut-inspired jazz, English and Welsh folk music, Balkan music; truly bad candy; some Tolkieniana, and more

So there it is, so scoot on over and enjoy catcching up.

It's Halloween at Green Man Review

Of course this issue is devoted to this very special holiday:

Spooks galore! Stephen King, Ellen Datlow, William Gibson; Halloween on screen; bad Dracula; Singing Bones, Metallica on cellos, scary chocolates and more

So trick on over and treat yourself to some tasty reviews.

Catching Up With Green Man Review

I even left myself a reminder and still blipped on updating you on GMR, so you get two ediitins to peruse this tmie.

First from October 2:

Contradance music and Arabian fuzz, William Gipson redux, military SF and horror, soul cake, and more

And then today's edition, titled smply "Auutumn is Really Here".

So click over and enjoy.

Back on Track at Green Man Review

Yes, GMR is back up and there's even a new edition:

Our Elizabeth Bear edition, plus some de Lint on film and in comics, contemporary raga, lots of traditional fiddle music and a Bert Jansch tribute, and of course dragons and chocolate . . .

So skip right over and get ready for some good reading.

Today in Disgusting People

This one just floored me, although I supposse I shoulnd't have been surprised -- Fox has been getting even worse, if you can imagine such a thing. From Media Matters, via Joe.My.God.:

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): I do have a solution and it’s a progressive solution. Give the homeless what they want because there is no way you can have a conversation with them.

You can’t reason with the unreasonable. Give them what they want but not in the city. The city allows this to happen. Move them out onto government property and let them run it.

Camp away. Give them the autonomy to truly run their lives into the ground. Harm each other. Don’t harm us anymore.

That’s the only thing you can do because it can’t get any worse than it is now. You got to move them to a place where they can live their lives.

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): So federally funded opium dens where the homeless can kill each other.

GUTFELD: And I volunteer as mayor. I will be mayor of opium town.

The only thing that comes to mind is "morallly bankrupt". That, and "overt Naziism", but the two really go hand-in-hand.

There's video at the link, if yoou can stand it.

Green Man Review is Back

Looks like our host ha resolved their issues but the latest edition is August 21st:

Summer Queen SJ ‘Sooj’ Tucker including her performing ‘Ravens in the Library’, Swedish folk music, Matt Wagner’s Grendel and a wee bit more.

Click on over and catch up.

159,000,000

That's how many trees there were in Chicago as of 2019, according to the US Department of Agriculture. I had a hard time believing that myself, and did a spot check. On the half-block where i Live there are cose to thirty trees in the [arkway and in yards. This is a short sstretch with three parking lots.

Between 2000 and 2010, the City planted about half a million trees. I've notice another surge in tree planting jut in the parts of Lincoln Park that I pass on the bus. In one stretch between Diversey Harbor and Belmont there are ovr two dozen nenw trees. That's only about half a mile.

Chicago s rapidly becoming The City in a Forest.

A Note on Green Man Review

I actually remembered to do an udpate post on Green Man Review. Unfortuntely, our host is having issues, and the site is inaccessible. When an upate is possible, I'll do one.

Earworm du Jour

I sort of heard this on someone's phone this afternoon and it stuck in my head. I remember how much I loved this song.

But Don't Call Him a Nazi

Via Joe.My.God.:

The New Yorker reports:

It turned out that the generals had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty. The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”

“Which generals?” Kelly asked. “The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded. “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.

But, of course, Trump did not know that. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. In his version of history, the generals of the Third Reich had been completely subservient to Hitler; this was the model he wanted for his military.

I remember reading that Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bedside. Do I need to say more?

What's New at Green Man Review

hA day late, but better late tan never, right? This edition looks pretty juicy:

lots of SF books and audiobooks; Euro-folk, Indian classical, and some jazz, plus lots of African music; jerky; Jonah Hex; and more!

So find a nuce cool spot to rekax and nosey on over.

Republicans Descibing Republicans

Florida Seen. Rick Scott came out with this one recently (via Joe.My.God.):

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott warned the Texas Conservative Political Action Conference Friday about the “greatest danger ever” faced by America. “The militant left wing in our country has become the enemy within,” Scott contended during his speech in Texas. Scott also predicted that “in their new socialist order, everyone will obey and no one will be allowed to complain,” while again describing the “woke Left” as a “modern day version of book burners” and the “most narrow-minded intolerant people our country has ever seen.”

This is pure projection, as we might expect. It seems to be the right's favored tactic these days,at leat in public ssstatements. And grab your irony meter --that post appeaared right after this one:

Michigan Town Defunds Library Over LGBTQ Books

Yu know it's not the laft doing that.

Right on Schedule, What's New at Green Man Review

I remembered! (Pats himself on back.) Here's the new edition of Green Man Review:

Some Favorite Doctor Whos, Robert Hunter’s ‘Brown-Eyed Women’, a Musical Playlist from Gary Whitehouse, a Bevy of Live Music reviews and Elizabeth Bear on All Things Foodie

So find a nice cool place to relax and scoot on over.

What's New at Green Man Review

Back on track with the latest edition of Green Man Review:

Jennifer offers us chilaquiles for breakfast, Folkmanis Dragons, The Doctor creates Macgregor’s Kitchen Garden, Eric Burdon’s Least Favourite Song, books with a ‘sunny’ theme, Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical fiction

You know the drill: click on over and enjooy.

Oops! Catching Up With Green Man Review

Somehow, I missed this one completely. Haappily, you can still catch the latest edition of Green Man Review, because the iternet is forever,

All things de Lint; Festival Express; Jennifer’s annual Solstice pig roast; lots of Cara Dillon, plus cool off with some Canadian and Siberian folk music

So find a nice cool shady spot and clickk on over.

Thought for the Day.

With thanks to commenter🄿🅁🄸🅇🄰🅃🄾🅁 - 🅃🅁🄸🄿🄻🄴 🅅🄰🅇🅇🄴🄳 at Joe.My.God.

What's New at Green Man Review

This edition looks really interesting:

Neal Stephenson, L.A. SF noir, return to Central Station, cozy mysteries, Holmes vampires; Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasies; Grateful Dead themed Weißbier; new music from Angel Olsen and Toot Monk, remembering Kelly Joe Phelps, all things Waterboys, and more

Click on over and hunker down and enjoy.

Catching Up With Green Man Review

Somehow I missed posting on last week's editio, but, as they say, the Internet if foever, so here it is:

Remembering Patricia A. McKillip along with Finnish and Swedish music

I've been reading McKillip's books for many years, so of coures there are lots of reviews by me in this edition, so go on ovr and dig in.

Idiot du Jour

Marjorie Taylor Greene is perhaps not as fundamentally stupid as Louie Gohmert or Candace OWens, but she's certainly in the running. From Joe.My.God.:

“They just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans. Just generation, generation. Probably in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are.” – Noted sociologist Marjorie “Peach Tree Dish” Greene, speaking on her MTG Live podcast.

And yet straight people keephaving straight babies. Go figure.

Today's Must Read

I ran across this post a day or two ago at Crooks and Liars. It's a good take on the right-wing reaction to the Uvalde school massacre.

The conspiracist far right has a knack for taking horrifying tragedies and somehow making everything worse, from Alex Jones claiming that the Sandy Hook and Las Vegas massacres were “false flags” to Tucker Carlson promoting white-nationalist theories that fueled the recent mass killing in Buffalo. Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people—19 of them schoolchildren—dead is proving yet another opportunity for them to be, yet again, some of the worst human beings on the planet.

Predictably, the worst of the lot were the white-nationalist-friendly trolls at the message board 4chan, who trotted out photos of a Hispanic transgender woman who they claimed was the shooter—a claim that was promptly debunked on Reddit, where the person whose photos were being used chimed in and denounced the claims as utterly and obviously bogus, since she didn’t even live in Texas and couldn’t possibly be the shooter.

It goes into some detail. Read the whole thing.

What's New at Green Man Review

It's that time again, and lots of good stuff on offer:

Cirque du Soleil, Steeleye Span live, A history of anime, peanut butter chocolate cups, mystery, vampires, and medieval feasts; Alison Bechdel and other queer comix; R. Crumb and old time music on film; Ojibwe Pow Wow singing, Albion Band, Springsteen, Teddy Thompson and more music

So find yourself a nice place to relax on this lovely spring day (well, it is here), and dive in.

The SOTUS Leak

Here's Trey Crowder's take on the Supreme Court's plan to overturn Roe v. Wade:

What's New at Green Man Review

Yesterday's edition -- I kept forgetting it was Sunday:

A Folkmanis Piglet puppet, Chocolate to nibble on, Classic SF on Mars; Music from Big Foot County, Finnish music, classical music, Ian Anderson and other music; Led Zep and Hawaiian cowboys on film; YA fantasy horror

Go ahead and dive in -- as you can see, there's lots there.

I've been waiting for this

Via Joe.My.God.

A last-minute amendment to give a politically appointed textbook commission final approval over books in Tennessee school libraries sparked a Capitol protest and heated debate in the General Assembly on Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, Rep. Jerry Sexton, R-Bean Station, withdrew the controversial amendment requiring the commission to issue its own list of approved materials, but submitted a new version requiring the commission to review the collections in every Tennessee school library.

But in the House debate on Wednesday, Sexton suggested he would take things a step further. “I would burn them,” Sexton said of books he considers inappropriate.

We all now who else liked to burn books.

Hitler Youth members burn books. Photograph dated 1938. World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

What's New at Green Man Review

Yep -- it's been two weeks, but we haven't been idle. In fact, there's quite a lot fo check out this time:

Gods, goddesses and ghosts, Gaiman, Crumb and Sacco, June Millington, Celtic Harp, Catalan Jazz, Georgiann Choral Music, Slovenian post-rock, chocolate, and more

So, if your weather is as chilly and gray as mine -- or even if it's not -- curl up with a nice hot drink and dive in.

Catching Up With Green Man Review

Two editions for you toay -- I was without internet for a while and got distraddted by other things, so this is a cathup. First, the March 20 edition:

Lots of Brian McNeill music, more UK TV, roots music from the US and Spain, some European jazz, Kim Stanley Robinson on the moon, Roger Zelazny, China Miéville, rowdy Americana, some boozy things, and more

And next is yesterday's eition, April 3:

Music-related fantasy literature, speculative fiction manga series, all things Natalie MacMaster, some jazz-dub-world music, transcultural jazz and Spanish accordion music, dragon puppets, and of course chocolate

Have fun catching up.

Today in Disgusting People

This is actually a catch-up on stories I've een over the past few days, b.ut this one caught my attention this morning. From Crooks and Liars, the Idaho state legislature:

In Idaho on Tuesday, the state House passed a bill that would make providing gender-affirming care to transgender youths a felony—punishable by life in prison. It also includes a provision making it a crime for parents or guardians to permit their child to travel out of state for treatment.

This echoes Texas governor Greg Abbott's order from a fewe days ago, which fortunately seems to be on hold. Via Joe.My.God.:

A state judge blocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s divisive order for “child abuse” investigations into parents of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care, issuing a statewide injunction Friday as the litigation against it plays out.

It's not just trans youth -- abortion is under attack (again) with the same strategies, plus the "citizen vigilante" provisions, alto pioneered by Texas.

The fact that these bills have no basis in realty doesn't bother Republicans, who are the ones pushing them -- it's all about throwing red m eat to the base. In Abbott's case, it's a pure political ploy, which his re-election committee dubbed a "sure winner".

Look for more of this from the red states.

What's New at Green Man Review

It's something of a mystery this week, so I'm just going to give you the lnik and let you find out for yourself wht the offerings are. Have fun!

Saturday Science: Neanderthals

I was sort of musig about nothing in particular when the question popped into my head: Where did Neanderthals originate? So I started googling around and ran across this article, which tells you all you ever wanted to kow about Neanderthals.

We know more facts about Neanderthals than any other extinct humans. Many thousands of their artefacts and fossils have been found, including several nearly complete skeletons.

We also know about their genetic make-up, as several Neanderthal genomes have now been reconstructed from ancient DNA obtained from their fossils

. As for my original question, this author maintains that Neanderthals originated in Ekurope or Adia perhaps as much as 500,000 years ago. This, of coure, depends on the distribution of our common ancestor -- Neanderthals are now considereed to be a separate species, closely related to Homo sapiens but distinct.

At any rate, do read the article -- it's somewhat lengthy, but very informative and quite fascainating,

This Time at Green Man review

Yep -- it's been two weeks, and here we are again, with a lot of good stuff:

Bill Willingham’s Fables, world music guides, blues, jazz, British and Eurasian music, Joni Mitchell reading Yeats, radio plays, and of course chocolate

So scoot on over and enjoy.

What's Neww at Green Man Review

It's that time again, and another edition of Green Man Reiew full of good stuff:

Spices, Gypsies and Judith Tarr; Groundhog Day and Midsomer Murders; giants and old Jewish comedians; white moons, sad daddies, violet light and Yggdrasil music; Rodents of an Unusual Size, and of course chocolate

n You know the drill -- click on over and kick back and enjoy.

The Hames Webb Space Telescope Has Landed

Figuratvely speaking, that is. From Space.com:

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination today (Jan. 24). The most powerful observatory ever to launch to space, the James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Dec. 25, 2021 to explore the cosmos and our universe’s earliest milestones.

Since its successful takeoff, the $10 billion telescope has been busy deploying its various systems and structures and traveling over 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) to its new home: L2, the second sun-Earth Lagrange point, which it will orbit. Lagrange points are gravitationally stable points in space.

"Gravitationally stable" in this case means that the earth's gravity and the sun's gravity cncel each other out -- the telescope will stay put.

THe Webb teescope is designed to investigaete the first light in the unives=iverse. (It took a while aftetr the Big Bng for the first stars to form and start emitting light, so that's not quite the beginning -- but it's as close as we're likely to get.)

Here's more:

Via Joe.My>God., where there's lots more.

This Time at Green Man Review

Yep -- another edition of A Green Man Revew for yur perusal. The heaeder says only "Candlemas Will Be Upon Us Soon", but don't let that fool you -- there's lots to look at and ponder this time so click on over and hunker down with somoe really good reviews.

What's New At Green Man Review

It's been two weeks, we've staarted a new year, but Green Man Review, as always, comes through:

All things Batman; Ritter bars and other wonderful things

And the other wonderful things really are. Click on through and settle in on this chilly Januay day.