Doug Talks Weird: the Blog

I often have more than one book on currently reading  at a time and there are reasons for this. Some are practical. I might have one at home, one at work, on my Kindle Voyage, one of my Kindle App. Some are more just my style of consuming media. I usually reach a point with any media where I just get bogged down or tired out by the current plot. I've guessed the twist. The characters are dawdling. The author  is dawdling. Whatever. Switching back and forth helps me to alleviate some of that issue. It also creates interesting intersections.  I am a big believer in the concept that the Book-You-Read is not the same as the Book-You-Hold .  BYH stems from a certain place in the author's life, the publisher's state-of-being, the editor's whims. The reality of the publishing world. The reality of your current bookstores or libraries. Insomuch, the BYH is really the Book-They-Wrote and Book-That-Was-Eventually-Made-Available-After-Very-Many-Business-Decisions but let's ...

  Some years ago, I had a short video series posted to YouTube called Doug Talks Weird . It was a play on words both about how I tend to ramble on about weird topics in a weird way and that I liked to talk about weird fiction. I had something like four episodes written, recorded maybe three of those, and then put it on a brief hiatus that turned into a decade. Why? A little bit was just not being quite sure how to present them while being a bit self-conscious about all their faults. Partially I just also needed something that could grow fairly organically and I started with absolute whoppers of videos: around 30 minutes. Without a proper set-up to make editing/writing/presenting easier. I had some ideas for shorter videos. Videos that were a bit more planned out. All came to nothing.  After that, I kept up my long-winded essays about weird fiction over on Goodreads but in the past year or so I have largely withdrawn from all  social media and GR is essentially on the cho...