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Retired young, older than I look, love sci-fi,, write for fun, MiMi, Other Mom & Space mom

Edmond, OK
Joined May 2011
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I made it to beautiful Traverse City, Michigan, for the book fair! Doors open at 10 AM, and I’m excited to be surrounded by so many amazing authors from across the country! If you’re in the area, come on out, stop by, and say hello. I’d love to meet you! Want to learn more about my children’s books? Visit rodneysmithjr.com
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On This Day in Supervillain History Who would suspect that charity fund-raising billionaire and tough-on-crime politician Richard Raleigh is secretly the villainous Disruptor? Certainly no one who planned to vote for him 54 years ago in Spiderman #117.
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Pachelbel's Canon in D, P 37 played by countless trains, the sounds of which were recorded and assembled by the Czech machinist Pavel Jirásek.
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Challenge Accepted! Bryce of South Haven , MI has stepped up to make a difference and accepting our 50 yard challenge , committing to mow 50 free yards for those in need in his community. This is what it’s all about. Welcome to the family, Bryce !
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Stargate concept art - Alien stasis pod ("The Long Goodbye")
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Day 148 of reminding @AmazonMGMStudio of their mistake cancelling Martin Gero's Stargate #SaveStargate
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Sam and Jack Shipmas is December 12, 2026. Pick a prompt, use them all, use your own. It’s a great time to try something you’ve never done before, to get back to something you used to do, or start a new story.
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Your children will be very excited to know that the total rainfall sitting in our gauge this morning was 0.67 inches.
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On This Day in Supervillain History Former communist spy, top scientist, and descendant of Arthurian legend Nathan Garrett drew inspiration from his lineage to mutate a horse and embark on a criminal career as the Black Knight. He debuted 63 years ago in Tales to Astonish #52.
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Day 147 of reminding @AmazonMGMStudio of their mistake cancelling Martin Gero's Stargate #SaveStargate
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘quondam.’ ow.ly/rwrb5104tWT
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On This Day in Supervillain History Spider-Woman #23 marked the first appearance of Gamesman, a costumed criminal who was revealed to be none other than ...SPOILER ALERT FOR A 47 YEAR OLD COMIC!...Timothy Braverman, the guy Jessica Drew has fallen in love with after a few dates!
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Will your child be the next to accept The 50 Yard Challenge? Summer may be winding down and school may be starting again soon, but the opportunity to serve never ends. The 50 Yard Challenge is open year-round and includes more than mowing lawns. Kids can also rake leaves, shovel snow, and pick up litter while helping the elderly, disabled, single parents, and veterans in their own communities. As children complete milestones, they earn different colored T-shirts, and once they finish 50 free yards, they receive a brand-new mower, weed eater, and leaf blower. There is no deadline and no need to rush—they can start today and finish next year. What matters most is getting kids active, teaching them the value of service, and showing them that even one small act of kindness can make a lasting difference. Talk to your child today about accepting The 50 Yard Challenge! Learn more & sign up : bit.ly/50yardsignup
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Yes, yes that’s what we had. This is a better video than mine (I’ll out mine below ). Sonic, for those who don’t know, is a drive-through fast food restraurant chain that is famous for its ice.
Tons of Sonic Ice size hail in downtown Edmond at 4PM Thursday. Temperatures in upper 40s with fog!! #okwx @kfor #wxtwitter 11.5.26
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My yard was covered; there was hail/grapple island in the center of the street impeding run-off.
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Guys......that's an F302 Stargate is a documentary literally undefeated
🚨 BREAKING: Introducing X-70 Fractal, @NASA's newest experimental aircraft! This crewed, modular aircraft will allow the agency to rapidly swap out internal & external payloads to help keep pushing the frontiers of aviation technology! @nasaadmin Details: go.nasa.gov/4kAeM0d
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Today, I am recommending four essential works by Kir Bulychev, the Soviet master of imaginative, humane and often quietly philosophical science fiction. The Settlement (1988): Sixteen years after their spaceship crashes into the icy mountains of an uninhabited planet, the survivors send a small party, mostly their own children, across a deadly pass to reach the wreck.  It’s a survival epic about a generation that has never seen Earth.  Bulychev’s darkest work, and arguably his best.  (English translation: Those Who Survive). Half a Life (1973): An expedition discovers a derelict alien spacecraft and, scattered aboard it, the diary of Nadezhda, a Soviet woman abducted in 1956 and kept for the rest of her life as a living exhibit.  A devastating story about endurance and loneliness. May I Please Speak to Nina? (1973): A man in 1972 Moscow makes a wrong-number call and reaches a thirteen-year-old girl living in wartime Moscow in 1942.  All they have between them is a telephone line across thirty years.  A tiny masterpiece that has been making Russian readers cry for more than half a century. Alice’s Travels (1974): Young Alice joins her zoologist father on a voyage to collect rare animals for Moscow’s space zoo, only to stumble into a mystery involving a missing captain and space pirates.  Pure joy, and a big part of why Russia loves Bulychev. Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, A. Bertram Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, Donald Wandrei, Nelson S. Bond, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, Raymond Z. Gallun, John Taine, Clare Winger Harris, Stanislaw Lem, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Angélica Gorodischer.
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Angélica Gorodischer, the grande dame of Argentine SF. Kalpa Imperial (1983-84): Storytellers recount thousands of years in a vast, nameless empire, where dynasties rise and fall.  The linked tales read like a dreamlike history and a pointed parable about the cycles of power. Trafalgar (1979): Between business trips, Trafalgar Medrano of Rosario regales his friends with tales of selling goods on strange planets.  These linked tales are full of bizarre alien societies, unexpected adventures, and sly social satire. The Violet’s Embryos (1973): A rescue ship finds the stranded, all-male crew of an earlier expedition living in decadent bliss on Salari II.  Violet patches on the ground grant wishes, but only to those capable of becoming what they desire. Opus dos (1967): After nuclear catastrophe, a new civilization reverses the racial hierarchy.  Black people rule, while whites are an oppressed minority.  Across nine interlocking stories, Gorodischer explores the cyclical nature of oppression. Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, A. Bertram Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, Donald Wandrei, Nelson S. Bond, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, Raymond Z. Gallun, John Taine, Clare Winger Harris, Stanislaw Lem, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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It gives me great pride to announce that Grayson of Kalamazoo, MI who is taking part in our 50 yard challenge has submitted the remaining lawn and has officially completed our 50 yard challenge . I’ll be hitting the road soon to deliver him his new equipment .
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