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Pete Mesling
High Notes: The Best of My Songs, Compositions, and Covers
I look at my best musical output with something like wonder. It's not simply the passage of time that makes it so alien to me. Sure, some...
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Pete Mesling
Oct 55 min read
August and September 2024 Journal Entries
August 1. I do actually try not to judge a book by its cover. I understand the potential pitfall there. But a title? Totally fair game....
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Pete Mesling
Jul 282 min read
May, June, July 2024 Journal Entries
May 2. I have very little interest in the creative ideas of other people. I guess that’s what puts me on the artistic, rather than the...
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Pete Mesling
May 112 min read
Off the Shelf: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites
Croatian publisher Amaranthine Books has been on my radar ever since they launched with an appealing edition of The Strange Case of Dr....
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Pete Mesling
May 44 min read
April 2024 Journal Entries
April 10. There’s something particularly true about a profile. In the mirror, we see mostly lies. In conversation, we too often hide...
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Pete Mesling
Apr 113 min read
March 2024 Journal Entries
Well, I didn’t get anything posted since last month’s journal entries, but that’s okay. If I don’t do much more than these monthly...
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Pete Mesling
Mar 102 min read
February 2024 Journal Entries
To my surprise and delight, I've been enjoying the new iPhone Journal app. They make it easy to ignore their annoying idea prompts, so...
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Pete Mesling
Aug 13, 20232 min read
Imajica: My Favorite Opening Paragraph
Opening paragraphs are not created equal, and I have a lot of favorites. Robert McCammon's The Providence Rider, George Eliot's Adam...
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Pete Mesling
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Off the Shelf: The King of Shadows
So Robert McCammon doesn’t write horror anymore, eh? Perhaps a reading of his latest Matthew Corbett novel, The King of Shadows, will...
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Pete Mesling
Apr 30, 20239 min read
My Favorite Stephen King Adaptations Ranked!
For the most part, I’m going to kick my cinephile self to the curb for this list. You’ll just have to trust that I’ve forgotten more...
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Pete Mesling
Apr 8, 20231 min read
Off the Shelf: Allen Koszowski's Dreams from the Dark Side
It was the publication of Centipede Press's new book of Allen Koszowski's artwork that got me thinking about doing another installment of...
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Pete Mesling
Apr 4, 20231 min read
Project L: My Latest Strategy Article for Casual Game Insider
Only the briefest of posts today, to let you know that my latest strategy article for Casual Game insider is availble now. Check out...
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Pete Mesling
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Michael Hedges: A New Documentary in Need of Funding
My two favorite guitarists of all time are both gone now. Eddie Van Halen, of course, wiped out the hard-rock world when he passed away...
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Pete Mesling
Mar 19, 20232 min read
The Ones Who Walked Away from Reason: Censoring Ursula K. Le Guin
Since my recent post about the unconscionable rewriting of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, the ball of ignorance has continued to gather...
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Pete Mesling
Mar 11, 202310 min read
Free Story: "An Occurrence at Kendrick Outdoors"
It's been a while since I've offered up a free story. This one is from my most recent horror collection, Fool's Fire. "An Occurrence at...
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Pete Mesling
Mar 4, 20233 min read
Off the Shelf: Clive Barker's Imajica
Sometimes it occurs to me that a certain book could be put to great use in the classroom if I were a high school teacher. Clive Barker’s...
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Pete Mesling
Feb 20, 20232 min read
The Twits: Censoring Roald Dahl
Maybe you’ve read about it by now. Puffin, publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, has taken to rewriting some of Dahl’s prose for...
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Pete Mesling
Feb 12, 20234 min read
Life's Little Problems
I like a good problem. I wouldn’t have characterized myself in this way for much of my life, but I see now that it was always true. Do I...
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Pete Mesling
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Under the Bulb with Steve Stred
I suppose now that I'm essentially off social media, with the occasional exception of TikTok, I should at least keep faithful readers of...
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Pete Mesling
Dec 4, 20223 min read
Mike Leigh's Peterloo: A Review
“Medicine, law, business, engineering ... These are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love ......
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