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Account for Nantucket E-Books, a free-software platform for the best e-books on the planet. https://nantucketebooks.com
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nantucketebooks, to random
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A collection of a-capella sea shanties. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-CuyLbC2TZo

mikwee, to random

Good morning Calckey!
Not really, it's bad out here

nantucketebooks,
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@mikwee How are things?

nantucketebooks, to random
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"Recall? No! You blow my covah! Blargh! Nyalgh!"

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Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Volume Two is the forty-first book in the directory.

https://www.ndhfilms.com/other/ellison/index.php#dreamcorridor_2

The Dream Corridor includes comic book adaptations of Ellison's work. The standout adaptation is One Life, Furnished In Early Poverty, a haunting work of sf (art by Paul Chadwick). Other highlights include Gnomebody (art by Green Lantern creator Martin Nodell), The Silver Corridor (art by Gene Ha), and The Man on the Juice Wagon (art by Richard Corben).

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England has a new Queen and her name is Victoria 🤩

nantucketebooks,
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@jstatepost @dannotdaniel She'd teach you, but she'd have to charge.

nantucketebooks, to random
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I have cleaned up the directory. Now the list of story titles and the section of story titles match up. There are 360 titles in the directory as of today, including essays, short stories, screenplays, novels, and book introductions. This is somewhere between 21% and 33% of Harlan Ellison's total work.

Check it out now! https://ndhfilms.com/ellison

nantucketebooks,
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The question I'm coming up against is: do I count the introductions Ellison wrote for each short story as a separate work? I would be inclined to say no, but in Dangerous Visions, the introductions are almost full essays in their own right.

If you're an Ellison fan, let me know what you think.

nantucketebooks,
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If you are a fan of Ellison's work, please consider volunteering to write entries for the directory. You will be credited!

Here's some books that have not been entered yet:

  • Gentleman Junkie
  • The Starlost: Phoenix Without Ashes
  • Can & Can'tankerous
  • Night and the Enemy
  • Blood's a Rover
  • An Edge in My Voice
  • Harlan Ellison's Watching
  • Harlan Ellison's Movie
  • Angry Candy
  • Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word
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1989's Macintosh SE/30L is remembered as one of Apple's biggest flops. MacWorld criticised its rotated L display as "...bringing all of the issues and none of the benefits of a true L display", while MacWeek called it "Some kind of deranged P display nobody asked for".

nantucketebooks,
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@NanoRaptor You nearly gave me a heart attack.

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i have up scaled a image of Bigfoot with

high-res bigfoot

nantucketebooks,
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@batvin3211 Ah jeez, the truth is out there!

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Troublemakers is the fortieth book in the directory.

This short story collection from 2001 was targeted at the Young Adult demographic. It includes some of Harlan Ellison's most popular stories: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, On the Downhill Side, Djinn, No Chaser, and Jeffty is Five.

https://www.ndhfilms.com/other/ellison/index.php#troublemakers

clarkesworld, to random
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We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so...
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you!

nantucketebooks,
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@clarkesworld Carrie Vaughn? Awesome!

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Pleasant little song, but it always seemed a little unsettling to me

🛌🌃🌉🌳🌜

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

https://song.link/i/1133368603

#NowPlaying

nantucketebooks,
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls That's why it was used in the opening credits of the movie Cinema Verite and the miniseries The Undoing.

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Hand-writing an epub is gonna turn me into one of those em-dash weirdos

nantucketebooks,
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@ahelwer Are you hand-writing an epub just for the experience?

nantucketebooks,
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@ahelwer I was just thinking you may find it easier to translate it into a markup language and then parse it into epub. That's what I do for my e-books, only the end result is HTML.

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@ahelwer @jake I use my own markup language, Shanty, and my own parser, Arrowhead. https://nantucketebooks.com/shantydocs No support for math equations right now.

spaceraser, to random
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The world does not need more reusable water bottles. And that’s a stupid term anyways, you can “reuse” almost any old “disposable” water bottles! Theres several orders of magnitude more energy inputs into a hydro flask bottle than a Aquafina bottle you decided to refill at the water fountain.

nantucketebooks,
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@spaceraser I recently heard that the average person is consuming a credit card's worth of plastic every year.

nantucketebooks, to random
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Pitch for a Cybertruck commercial: get Bob Seeger on the line!

"Like a rock... I was dumb as I could be!
"Like a rock... a $50 billion raise for me!
"Like a rock... unscheduled disassembly!
"Like a rock!"

nantucketebooks, to random
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Would you believe I found a working payphone at the City Market gas station in Granby, Colorado? Yes, friends, this one has dial tone, no broken buttons, and it rings!

This is not far from the Granby Ranch ski area.

The number is (970) 887-9907.

nantucketebooks,
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@octothorpe IF you need an exit, Granby has you covered.

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Cool L.A. history gig alert: the Griffith Observatory Foundation seeks a trained archivist to put 89 years of building lore in order. You might even get to fire up the Tesla coil. https://archivesgig.com/2024/05/23/los-angeles-ca-archiving-consultant-short-term-griffith-observatory-foundation/

nantucketebooks,
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@esotouric A chance to work at one the most iconic locations in American cinema.

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Windy AF in Denver this morning. Not ideal 🫤

nantucketebooks,
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@smellsofbikes @Basmitharts It gets windy in Denver, I've gotta tell ya.

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Some thoughts on The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. https://sopuli.xyz/post/13079549

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Harlan Ellison gives one of the greatest non-answers of all time in this episode of his commentary series. At the time, Chistopher Priest had published The Last Deadloss Visions, about Ellison's failure to deliver a third volume of his Dangerous Visions series. Ellison had been claiming for decades that it was almost ready for print.

Even Ellison's evasions and dodges were remarkable to behold.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YVfkefu0cUY&list=PLX8OkSrQOhQBzxRltmxQbigV6lcjazHiy&index=56

ShaulaEvans, to random
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If you are an informed, intelligent, compassionate, in-any-way-science-literate person, how are you coping with living through these times? What's helping?

No snark, please. I'm interested in sincere, practical answers.

nantucketebooks,
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@ShaulaEvans That's a good question. What helps me is to try to make my world smaller. There so many things in this world that are out of my control, so I'm going to focus on the things that are within my control.

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