austin_dern | Reading

February 2026

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28

Custom Text

Nine books new to me: 3 horror, 4 mystery, 1 non-fiction, and 1 science fiction, although I am not sure about the proper categorization of some of those books. Only one is explicitly part of a series.

Books Received, February 7 to February 13

Poll #34218 Books Received, February 7 to February 13

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

View Respondents

Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong (October 2026)
8 (44.4%)

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore by Riley Black (October 2026)
7 (38.9%)

Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe (October 2026)
3 (16.7%)

Null Entity by Seth Haddon (July 2026)
3 (16.7%)

Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm (September 2026)
6 (33.3%)

Savvy Summers and the Po’boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (July 2026)
1 (5.6%)

Revenge of the Final Girl by Andrea Mosqueda (October 2026)
5 (27.8%)

Lucy Kline, Necromancer by Tom O’Donnell (September 2026)
1 (5.6%)

They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough (August 2026)
4 (22.2%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
15 (83.3%)

Tags:

books received

Posted by Daily Bunny

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/14/bunny-couples-spell-love-in-their-own-ways

Thanks, Julie and bunnies Buddy and Holly! (Don’t you just love that?) Julie writes, “Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are Holly (B&W) and Buddy (champagne) making an L for Love.”

Thanks, Moizza and bunnies Beatrix Pantoufle and Quinta Bunson! Moizza writes, “Buffy and Quinny are the heart of my home.”

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/14/bunny-couples-spell-love-in-their-own-ways

Posted by Joseph Nebus

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/whats-going-on-in-flash-gordon-did-ming-and-bok-get-atom-grenade-blasted-december-2025-february-2026/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21534

We don’t know yet. Since the most recent time Mongo came rolling through my story strip plot recap schedule, the story has been split into two pieces. One with Flash Gordon who’s got back to Queen Aura and King Barin; one with Sir Bok the dragonman who’s fallen into the guard of Ming the Merciless … Continue reading

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/whats-going-on-in-flash-gordon-did-ming-and-bok-get-atom-grenade-blasted-december-2025-february-2026/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21534

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/14

The Far Side daily dose for 2026/02/14

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/14

BROWNSVILLE, TX – Tech visionary Elon Musk astounded observers when he set aside more than a decade of unfulfilled vows to colonize the Red Planet in favour of the seemingly more modest goal of failing to colonize the Moon.

Tags:

beaverton

Lila Macapagal's quest to keep her aunt's ailing restaurant afloat is greatly complicated when a pesky foodblogger dies mid-meal... with Lila as the most likely murder suspect.

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) by Mia P. Manansala

Tags:

Posted by Daily Bunny

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/13/the-longer-the-whiskers-the-wiser-the-bunny

Thanks, Anna and bunny Flori! Anna writes, “Old Flori is still holding court...when she's awake!”

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/13/the-longer-the-whiskers-the-wiser-the-bunny

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/13

The Far Side daily dose for 2026/02/13

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/13

Posted by Joseph Nebus

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/misted-fx-down-to-mobius-part-4-host-sketch/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21528

We’re up to the first host sketch in my MiSTing of late-90s Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction FX Down To Mobius and that means, yes, we get to the actual fan fiction next week! But this week I spend some time thinking about what it all means. The whole of this Mystery Science Theater 3000 … Continue reading

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/misted-fx-down-to-mobius-part-4-host-sketch/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21528

A sample issue of New Edge Sword & Sorcery, whose 2026 funding drive goes live today.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury

Tags:

review

Posted by Daily Bunny

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/12/bunny-i-think-you-have-a-long-lost-sister-out-there-somewhere

Thanks, Michelle, Craig, and bunny Christopher Robun! Michelle writes, “Here’s a submission of Christopher Robun scoping out any PTOs (potential treato opportunities)! He looks like he could be related to Magical Carrot!”

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/12/bunny-i-think-you-have-a-long-lost-sister-out-there-somewhere

Posted by Joseph Nebus

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/not-where-i-expected-pinball-night-to-end-up/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21525

Last night a friend put it to me that Iron Maiden, as much as I think of it as a hair metal band of the 80s, is more of a prog rock band. I was skeptical, but he pointed out: they wrote a 13-minute song based on the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and a … Continue reading

https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/not-where-i-expected-pinball-night-to-end-up/

http://nebushumor.wordpress.com/?p=21525

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/12

The Far Side daily dose for 2026/02/12

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/12

I managed to do more roller-coaster-riding over the past 12 months that I'd done in any prior year, riding, I think, something like 17 total and 13 that were new to me. That includes my first two rides of 2026, at Universal Singapore on January 2.

But I've never done a coaster trip, in the coaster-enthusiast sense. Since my family are not fanatics for this stuff, it'd have to be a solo vacation (or with some other group). I'd mulled over some possibilities here in the past.

Well, I'm going to do it early this summer: the option I'd been thinking of as "the eastern Pennsylvania road trip". 3 days on and around Hersheypark (2-day ticket, with an additional non-park day to poke around the area and take my time moving on), 1 at Knoebels, 1 at Dorney Park. I will probably briefly hit Quassy on the way there, and maybe some park or attraction to be named later (Rye Playland? An alpine coaster? Something entirely different?) on the way back, if I'm feeling ambitious. I'm timing it all to avoid World Cup interference, though I think I'm well away from the places that will be worst affected.

This is a modest plan as coaster-freak tours go, but I'm no spring chicken and my endurance is limited. It may make 2026 a bigger year than 2025 all on its own.

How much do you love me, a million bushels?
Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more.

And tomorrow maybe only half a bushel?
Tomorrow maybe not even a half a bushel.

And is this your heart arithmetic?
This is the way the wind measures the weather.

************

Link

The revived May 2022 Neon City Overdrive Bundle featuring the fast-playing cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game Neon City Overdrive from Peril Planet.

Bundle of Holding: Neon City Overdrive (from 2022)

Tags:

bundle of holding

What the hell sort of question is that? Of course I'd pay up! I have money, pride, and my teeth, and of the three, I can least afford to lose the last. Wouldn't almost anybody submit to the shakedown? That's how protection rackets work, after all - everybody does the same math and comes to the same conclusion as I just did.

(Of course, the context was "I think this company was rude to me over the phone, therefore I decided to live without hot water and heating because I have my principles" so, you know, I guess we have different approaches to life?)

*****************

( Read more... )

Posted by Caitlyn / CPI

https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/02/scans-monthly-coin-journal-1991-july.html

With the first half of 1991 posted yesterday, Joey has now also finished the back-half of 1991 Coin Journals.

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 7 (July 1991) (600DPI)

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 8 (August 1991) (600DPI)

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 9 (September 1991) (600DPI)

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 10 (October 1991) (600DPI)

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 11 (November 1991) (600DPI)

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 16 No. 12 (December 1991) (600DPI)

some random highlights...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific attempts to eliminate trans people from society. Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist. This includes making their healthcare illegal, censoring books and school curriculum from university level down to elementary school, banning trans people from bathrooms, and declaring trans existence to be child abuse.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people & political enemies off the streets via anonymous unaccountable masked gestapo and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. The world witnessed ICE execute a mother and then lie about what we saw. And then again, ICE executed a nurse and lied about what we all saw. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people.

Please read: Vance announces aid restrictions for groups that promote diversity, transgender policies abroad by Carmen Paun

Please read: California's largest pediatric healthcare system to halt transgender care amid Trump administration threats by Hannah Fry

Please watch for tips on facing the panopticon:

Watch on YouTube