Mitch Wagner
@mitchwagner.com
Mostly memes and other curiosities, links and the occasional original thoughts and photos. Live in San Diego, from New York. Professionally, I'm a networking analyst, trade journalist and aspiring Zamboni operator. He/him #DEI
If there’s a movie based on a book, and you plan to both see the movie and read the book, what order should you do it in? I think most readers would say you should read the book first, but a friend makes a compelling, brief argument... https://mitchwagner.com/2026/08/05/if-theres-a-movie-based.html
The friendship worked, the physics didn't — a review of the novel "Project Hail Mary," by Andy Weir: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/08/05/the-friendship-worked-the-physics.html
The friendship worked, the physics didn't — a review of the novel "Project Hail Mary," by Andy Weir
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🦍 Mitchellaneous 8.4.2026: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/08/04/mitchellaneous.html
YouTube has been serving me clips of scenes where bullies push the hero Too Far. YouTube gets me.
A new Robert Charles Wilson time travel novel? Yes, please. Cover looks great. Has a nice Saul Bass vibe.
Forty Million Summers - Tachyon Publications
“I can’t think of another science fiction writer who understands the strengths of the genre so well.” —The New York Times An inexplicable ecological disaster is rapidly making the Earth uninhabitable. The development of temporal displacement offers hope, but at the price of an unpredictable exit from time itself.
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Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
People who use both Blueksy and Mastodon: Which do you prefer?
Arsenic and Lace: The trial of the Yorkshire Witch. The true tale of Mary Bateman, the villainous Yorkshire Witch, who sold spells and enchantments to the desperate in the late 18th Century. Tim Hartford is joined on the Cautionar... https://mitchwagner.com/2026/08/04/arsenic-and-lace-the-trial.html
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
On July 26, 1988, TV show 'Rainbow' aired episode "Zippy's in Love" Photos from IMDB
My TV these days is deeply middle-aged. Reruns of Buffy, Stargate, Grimm, The Mentalist, Justified, Inspector Morse and the occasional Golden Girls episode. Last night, we watched the series finale of Grantchester.
"Mary Walter" was last seen standing in the commander's cupola of a T-72 advancing towards Moscow at the head of a column of armoured mobile library vans
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2d agoGuys I just got this marketing email and I'm scared.
If you’re trying to rediscover your love of reading, you should probably start by reading something you’re going to love. It doesn’t have to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, just something you will enjoy.
Cyclospora was my favorite character in The Odyssey and whatnot.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
