SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

Another round of books just read.Some are from the same thrift store find but there are a few others in here too now.

John Boyd - The Rakehells Of Heaven (1969)
 

Robert Conquest - A World of Difference (1955)

Larry Niven - The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (1976)

Frederik Pohl  - In The Problem Pit (1976)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean ~ Arthur C Clarke

Round three of the sweetest gift the sweetest girl bought me.

A.E. Van Vogt ~ The Universe Maker (1953)

Edmond Hamilton ~ City at World's End (1951)

A. Bertram Chandler ~ The Way Back (1976)

There are always possibilities

Round two of the great Science-Fiction thrift store find.

Fred Hoyle ~ Element 79 (1967)

Philip K. Dick ~ The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)

Edson McCann* ~ Preferred Risk (1955)
*Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey

J. Hunter Holly ~ The Dark Planet (1971)

This week's caption contest picture is shown below

Picture I took this weekend at the Target near my house.

"They done got Raptured in the frigerator section at Target!"

Protecting the quality of your product, enhancing your brand's shelf appeal

Kinda appealing packaging I found at work while taking out the recycling.

pi-pump® with flexible pipette holding socket and special release valve. Many years of trouble-free use have made the pi-pump® one of the world's most popular pipetting aids.

Science fiction is the improbable made possible

Started tackling that Sci-Fi score that Kate made. First four down and it has definitely refreshed my appetite for Science Fiction. Thank you sweetie.

Brian Aldiss ~ The Dark Light Years (1964)

Philip José Farmer ~ Traitor To The Living (1973)

Robert Silverberg ~ Conquerors From The Darkness (1965)

Poul Anderson ~ The Night Face (1963)

Suddenly the world is not such a bad place.

Photo Dump time. Way Over Due!

Sheboygan Brand Bratwurst Grillers...

...made in California...

...for the New York Style Sausage Company?

Bears and Packers stadium chars cavorting together at the Vancouver, WA Bed, Bath & Beyond

Rolls-Royce at the Elmer's in Clackamas.
Elmer's is like a Denny's or Shoney's type restaurant.

This one is from a Wendy's parking lot in Portland. What is up with the fancy car/crap food connection?

Uh, wouldn't Lil' Beep Beep be a better name for a car seat toy?

Happy clasp dude on a container at Goodwill

Torino? Torin-yes!

Cannibal Marshmallow!

These guys were only 20 feet away. Sorry for the rainy-car window-zoom shot:(

There are more to come. Phone is full and I need to sort them.

In business a good name is crucial

Uh...about that name!?

I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world

What do you suppose this person was thinking?

Billy: How many miles to the gallon?
Car Salesman: (Clears throat) Three.
Billy: Shoot, that's less than a Hummer! I'll take one!

This picture doesn't even scratch the surface of how obscene this truck is.

A little better perspective. Just towers over the car next to it at the stop light.

You will die of suffocation, in the icy cold of space

More awesome estate sale finds. This sale out in the Proebstel, WA area had 10 banquet tables full of VHS tapes and around 300 cassettes. Mostly classical, radio dramas and country music with a smattering of this and that. I pulled 15 cassettes at $.25 a piece. Here are 3 of them. Click on the The Saga of Battlestar Galactica or the The Odyssey Orchestra presents Galactic Hits cassette j-card for links to mp3's if you'd like.

The Saga of Battlestar Galactica featuring the Original Cast

The Odyssey Orchestra presents Music From Return of the Jedi and Other Space Hits.

The Odyssey Orchestra presents Galactic Hits

Check out Spock's Record Round-Up for more space fun.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

On the way into work today.

Here is a screen capture of the weather today. Notice the 40.8° F temperature.

Now here is a picture I took on the morning commute. Notice the convertible top.

I was freezing inside my car with the heat on. People are silly.

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness

MTC2, you are missed.

Found this while digging through my locker at work today. I don't have many reminders from the Coffee Cellar days and this was a cool find. I also wish I knew where those stamps went.

When I die I’m going to leave my body to science fiction

My girlfriend gave me a couple Philip K. Dick pulp sci-fi paperbacks for Christmas this last year. This blow in card was in one of them.

I picked up a bunch more pulp sci-fi paperbacks at a thrift store recently and this blow-in card was in one of them.

I remember how stoked I was in the 80's pouring over the Science Fiction Book Club pamphlets. Of course the books weren't this cheap but they weren't that much more.

Anyway, I thought they were a neat little blast from the past.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea

Let me continue the cassette find fun. This one is from an estate sale where I managed to grab a decorative cassette holder with 72 cassettes for $2.00. The cache was predominantly vintage Maxwell, TDK and BASF tapes with Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond recorded onto them. There was a few Broadway Musical, Mario Lanza and several more Niel, Barbara and Judy tapes as well.

My favorite tape in the lot however was this gem.
Thirty minutes of lapping waves, bells ringing and bird singing up above. And get this, side two repeats so you can feel like your floating in a bay somewhere on a continuous loop.
I love the inside of the cover. "How to use the music of the future". plus the cartoon of the "Future Music" maker recording the descending snowflake. Blows my mind.

Syntonic Research Inc.'s Environments 3 Wood-Masted Sailboat.

When you're ignorant, you get treated that way

***WARNING...OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE***


Value Village Score

Too Short's Raw, Uncut and X-Rated Cassette

Currently listed on E-bay for $30.00 Buy it Now. Purchased at Value Village for $.99.

The container used for such leftovers is commonly called a doggy bag

Ort

(ôrt)
n.

1. A scrap; a bit.

More leftover phone camera pictures.

Picture from the Oregonian speaks for itself.

Extreme Monkey-Powered Awesomeness Enclosed Indeed.

Angry finger puppet scares his neighbors.

Interesting portion of an amazing painting found at Goodwill.

Big Lots! Finds

ike & sam's kettle corn

Red Wine Vinegar Kettle Chips. Will somebody eat some of these and let me know how they taste?

Hot Maple Syrup Cereal. I love the one eyed ghost the best but these dudes are cool.

Hot Berry Blast Cereal. More cool dudes.

Target Finds

Cupcake Rhino

Cotton Candy on a Unicycle

Running Scared Soda Can

Cute Xmas Animals

Toddler Top "Going for a ride"

One Eyed Monster Felt Fun.


...and the rest

Odd, is that a Juxtapoz in the rack at the Plaid Pantry...in Clackamas?

Lastly. I made this miniature Herman Miller inspired clock for my sweeties Doll House. Not bad for a first attempt.