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Dread Spherical 2026

I’ll be announcing pre-orders and more info about the book in the weeks ahead.

Watch this space and my social media accounts.

(NOTE: this is a teaser for the cover, which was created using Stock images, not AI)

110 thoughts on “Dread Spherical 2026”

  6. Watched the first 20 minutes of Das Boot.

    How dare my Apple TV start with the dubbed version!

    Sounds like Jürgen Prochnow did provide his voice for the English Dub but bleh! Bleh! I say I will watch it another day in German.

  7. I just wrapped up a SLAM interview… The guy isn’t very well-known, but man, his words were incredible. I don’t usually get so verklempt after an interview, but this guy floored me. I need a minute.

  24. Since we watched Monarch, we decided to go back to the 2014 Godzilla.

    Damn, what a frustrating movie. Intentionally frustrating, teasing monster fights for most of it without any payoff. And good lord is the main character dull. And good lord are GodzIlla’s giant insectoid opponents uninteresting.

    It still gets a half-hearted thumbs up, but what a waste.

  27. When doomscrolling read a quote by Admiral Nimitz that claimed that the intelligence fuck ups ended up being a kind of blessing with Pearl Harbour as if the US had known of the attack they would have engaged the Japanese fleet with their carriers and lost.

  30. Thursday’s gaming, with a different group, has been cancelled as one of them is ill. Apparently it’s not the week for get togethers

  32. last week I saw Christy at the cinema, this week it’s on VOD.

    This is why I’m not surprised cinema attendance has not recovered after the pandemic,

  35. Going to a Christmas party later this afternoon. It looks like the snow will hold off until this evening so, with luck, we’ll be home before it starts and the highway gets stupid.

  38. What’s your name, the guy asked the kid.
    P, puh, puh, p, p, Peter, replied the boy
    Do you have a stutter? The guy asked kindly
    No, says the kid. My dad had a stutter. The person who did up my birth certificate was an asshole

  41. One day Jesus was walking through a secluded garden in heaven when he saw a man crying.

    Why are you crying? He asked. This is heaven, there should be no tears or sorrow

    The man wiped his eyes and said, I know. It’s just, a long time ago I had a son under, let’s say, mysterious circumstances. After many trials he went through a miraculous transformation. A book was even written about him and he became known the world over. When I came here, I was hoping I’d see him here, but I haven’t

    Jesus looked at the man incredulously and said, Wait, you wouldn’t happen to be a carpenter?

    I am, replied the man

    Jesus smiles and opened his arms wide, Father, he said with joy.

    The old man looked at him doubtfully and said, Pinocchio?

  42. So I only watched Kubrick’s The Shining last year for the first time.

    Never seen it at the cinema though , hopefully going to rectify that tomorrow with it’s 45th anniversary release this week.

  43. Joe decided to go to a fortune teller. She sat down and said, you will have unspeakable sorrow in twelve years.

    Understandably, after hearing this, Joe was feeling down. So, upon leaving the fortune teller, he decided to cheer himself up by going to the pet store and getting himself a puppy

  44. So we tried out the Angry Axolotls card game. We’d missed a critical point in the rules until about halfway through the game, but even so, I can’t recommend.

    • Of all of them on the list, the only one I saw was “Electric State”. I’m not sure why so many pick on this movie, but I really like it. It’s not going to win any Oscars, and it has some derivative narrative elements, but the characters are likable, the robot designs and personalities are inspired, and overall a fun experience. It seems to succeed where a lot of YA adaptations fail.

  52. Crap joke for today:

    I came home from work to find my wife painting the spare bedroom she wants to use as her home gym.

    I asked what she was doing and she told me her plan. Then I asked, “why are you wearing your ski parka over your fur coat?”

    She picked up the can of paint and pointed to the instructions and read this to me, “for best results use two coats.”

  54. Three men die on Christmas Eve. At the pearly gates Saint Peter says, To get into heaven, you must show something that is in the Christmas spirit

    The first man flicks his lighter and says, this is a candle. Saint Peter lets him in.

    The second man pulls out a key ring and jangles them. These are jingle bells, he says. Saint Peter lets him in.

    The pulls a lace bra and g string from his coat.

    How does that represent Christmas? Asks Saint Peter

    The man replies, They’re Carols

    • I’ve been in that room! I got a tour of the Microsoft Human Factors group when I was at a conference and that room was part of the tour. I also worked in a lab in graduate school that had similar rooms that were build on their own concrete platform and then had the rest of the building constructed around them. According to my faculty advisor, the best use of those rooms was that he had a previous grad student that would practice on the bagpipes in there.

  58. I’d never seen To Live And Die in LA, so I gave it a shot.
    Better than I’d expected! But still full of 80s cop movie cliches. It’s like The French Connection meets Miami Vice meets Lethal Weapon.

    It blows my mind that anyone thought “Hey, let’s get Wang Chung to score this movie,” but the music is pretty good. The title song is a classic.

    It is amazing to me that movie producers in the 80s thought William L. Peterson was a viable leading man.

  59. A man walked into a bar, sporting a black eye

    The bartender asked what happened.

    The many says, I run a small store with two employees, Mary and Jack. The store is not doing well so I have to let one of my employees go.

    This morning, Mary came in first so I pulled her aside and said, I’m either going to have to lay you or Jack off.

    Hence the black eye

  60. Sunday recap:
    All 3 of us are <100%, so it was a bunch of xmas arts and crafts.

    For the evening viewing, I subjected the family to It's A Wonderful Life. Everyone made it to the end!

    Later on, Tiffany and I started Banshee, made it about 20 minutes into ep 1, then switched over to finally see what all the hype has been about for The Bear. That ep 1 was much better.

    • I prefer The Bishops Wife to IAWL, for a better Jimmy Stewart Xmas movie watch ‘The Shop Around the Corner’.

      I’m in a singles group (not about dating) and IAWL gets a lot of flack about Mary in the alt universe being portrayed as miserable being alone and a librarian as if that was a fate worse than death.

  65. To add to the season of jolly, our sole remaining car is in need of serious repair.

    So we’re putting band-aids on it and shopping for a new one.

    • I like his action hero mode, and I’m always happy to see Henry Winkler. But it looks dangerously close to another Nobody. I hope it has something substantially different about it than another secretly badass guy hiding in a regular life.

  68. Since my Mam died, every Xmas I buy myself a gift so I’ve got something to mess around with on the day.

    This year I have no idea what to get.

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