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spicebaliset
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Fantasy & SF composer, occasional book reviewer, guitar affecionado and an appreciator of westerns/pulp cinema

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I’m obsessed with the Open C tuning. My acoustic basically lives there now
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Once Upon a Time an the West
Day of Anger
Ravenous
Unforgiven
They Call Me Trinity
Silverado
Tombstone
Old Henry
High Plains Drifter
Pale Rider
My top 10 westerns (not in order, added difficulty - only one per director):

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
True Grit (2010)
The Quick and the Dead
High Noon
Rango
Blazing Saddles
The Proposition
I actually love westerns. My top 10, in no order:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Old Henry
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
True Grit (2010)
No Country for Old Men
The Quick and the Dead
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tombstone
El Mariachi
Near Dark
February 5, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Today's SFF news
February 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The best way to check if Cloudfare is down is to try one of these "is this thing down for everyone or just me" websites.
They're all on Cloudfare so none of them will reply.
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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happy slightly belated 22nd birthday to one of the best movies ever made
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Priscilla Page
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November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Watched The Professionals (1966) over the weekend. For a traditionally made flick, it’s almost a revisionist zapata western. Great dialogue, excellent pacing and cinematography. The musical score is the only less than stellar aspect of it. 9/10
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A quick book rec from me:

If you love horror/acid westerns with with a dash of Cormac McCarthy and Uncle Steve, this is going to rock your world
June 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
One day and change into my Norway trip, and I’m already in love with brunost and can’t imagine my life without it
May 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
OBLIVION!
April 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Well, hurrah for 15 April, because that can only mean one thing. Yes, indeed – it’s 247 years to the day since Parson Woodforde’s hogs got shitfaced
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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RIP Val Kilmer. An incredibly talented and idiosyncratic character actor who got type cast as a leading man because he was gorgeous.
April 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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March 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I miss when it was socially acceptable to grab a vending machine at the top corners and rock it until you got your legal tender worth.
Doesn't work? Give it a WHACK and that'll do it.
March 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Conclave ruled.
a man in a red robe with a cross on his neck
ALT: a man in a red robe with a cross on his neck
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March 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
On a week long YMO bender, and I have 0 regrets
March 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Aaand credits rolled for #avowed What a game! Don’t recall the last time I was in a grips of an RPG this intensely.
February 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM