Tag: Crowing

MidJourney: caracal caracal

  • <https://s.mj.run/ojA8vIFG57A&gt;, a seated caracal wearing a trench coat, fluffy tail, full length, detailed pencil drawing”
  • a fortunetelling ferret, elaborate wrapped turban, crystal ball, pillars, hanging drapes, detailed pencil drawing
  • I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
  • an irish wolfhound wearing a safety vest and hard helmet, pencil drawing, working dog, pencil drawing, –V5
  • Is it just me or does this guy look like Jack Palance playing a Mongol chieftain?
  • Yup.
  • I never realized that my yet to be written stories were all illustrated by N. C. Wyeth

what I did on my holidays

So the Gigantic Semi-Annual Booksale is on, and I had comp leave today (HR is apparently trying to decide whether or how much OT I get for last month’s patroling of the chicken-haunted wastelands.) God being merciful, I walked away with only ten dollars spent (the scifi/fantasy book section is downright skeletal these days.) But they were dollars well spent:

  • Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle & Tarzan & the Lost Empire – Edgar Rice Burroughs – I am slowly but surely compiling the Tarzan series in print.
  • First Aid for Horses – Eleanor Kellon, VMD (My childhood steed died of old age about two years ago, but….)
    • I almost got Marguerite Henry’s Stormy, Misty’s Foal for some of the schoolkids I know…but then decided that the brats wouldn’t appreciate it, anyhow.
  • A Stainless Steel Trio – Harry Harrison (A Stainless Steel Rat is Born, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues)
  • Son of the Black Sword – Larry Correia and yes, I do have it as an ebook; I just wanted a hardback copy. SotBS edged out Terry Pratchett’s Nation on account of costing a dollar less.

Down in the paperback section, I grabbed:

  • The Magician’s Nephew – C. S. Lewis
  • The Song of Roland – Translated by Robert Harrison and also with Guy Gavriel Kay’s name slapped on the cover for some reason.
  • Measure for Measure – Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare, also.