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holoz0r (77)in The Pub • 2 days ago
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I started my new job November 10. I've not met a person there that I don't like. The work itself is easy , but very demanding mentally. I have been getting up at between…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 20 days ago
BooK Review: Ursula K LeGuin's City of Illusions is more than just a tale of a place
Titles are interesting things that can tell much, or perhaps very little of a story. In City of Illusions , Ursula K LeGuin tells the tale of an Earth under the dominion of…
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holoz0r (77)in The Pub • 29 days ago
A reunion with wine
She is a siren in a bottle. A liquid, syrup with layers of flavour, touches of fruit, the vessel of grape, and the chilled bottle conducts the heat from my hand. I am surrounded…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • last month
Review: The Last Dinner Party, Live at The AEC Theatre, January 13 2026
In October, when I reviewed The Last Dinner Party's sophomore effort, From the Pyre , I was looking forward to the 13th of January. Between those dates, Australia's…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • last month
Planet of Exile by LeGuin is a sad torture to read, but totally worh it
Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story of two races…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • last month
Rocannon's World - my first Ursula K LeGuin read, and certainly not the last
Since my father's funeral, I've owned an Ursula K LeGuin collection. Until recently, I learned it was not the collection I've wanted to read. That book was The Earthsea…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Gaming • last month
holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Breachway
When I purchased Breachway , it looked like everything that I wanted from a Slay The Spire - like game. Replayability, a new setting, science-fiction, space battles, and…
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holoz0r (77)in Movies & TV Shows • 2 months ago
I finally watched Bugonia ... and I have to say - go watch Poor Things, too...
Emma Stone has had a recent knack for really strange, interesting roles in the movies I've watched lately. Thoroughly enjoying Poor Things , (I've not yet read the book) - I…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 2 months ago
Another last book of 2025(The 29th!) - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - but ... why?
Small Things Like These is a diminutive book, written by Claire Keegan, who, the back cover of the book tells me, won many prizes, such as the Rooney Prize for Irish literature…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 2 months ago
Maybe the last read of 2025: The Day of the Triffids
The Day of The Triffids is a perfectly executed book. This is evident not only from the fact that it is published as a Penguin Classic, in a familiar, pocket sized paperback…
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holoz0r (77)in Reflections • 2 months ago
The Best Year of My Life
A bold title to be sure - but why? In summary, this year, began by a return to work, whereupon, on my first day back i the office, a massive restructure of the company I once…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 2 months ago
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - The final VALIS book, reviewed
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer represents the fifth Philip K Dick book I’ve read in a row. I have to say, that this one was the most work. It was the last he’d write before…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • 2 months ago
holoz0r's 2025 in music
My 2025 musical listening habits and reflections on live music.
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holoz0r (77)in #life • 3 months ago
The Fourth Week of my new job starts tomorrow - an update
Tomorrow marks the start of the fourth week of my new job. I am yet to be escorted out of the building without an entry pass, but I am very pleased to say that this is the first…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 3 months ago
Mosaic: Room to Surveil
Monochromatic monitors painted the walls. Illuminated in a bizzare grey light, his elderly pores held the red tinge of inflammation from a dull razor. Strapped into the chair in…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 3 months ago
Book Review: The Divine Invasion by Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick has an obsession with diseased, ill, dying women. They've featured in each of the recent books I've read. Last time, it was cancer, this time, it is MS. They're…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 3 months ago
Mosaic: Castle
Home was an apartment. It was up three flights of unforgiving, weathered stairs – if the lift was broken. His had a single bedroom. Cold in the winter. Hot in the summer. Dark at…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 3 months ago
Mosaic - Homeward
Billboards ran through sequences of marketing that was vapid and uninspiring, for products nobody needed. They illuminated the halls of the train station with their rainbow…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 3 months ago
Mosaic: Coffee Shop
He sat in the café. He looked at his laptop bag, and back to the cooling cup of coffee. Steam quietly drifted upward in the cold winter day. His job interview had gone well, he…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 3 months ago
Mosaic: The Building
The building was a long-forgotten memory, clinging to an otherwise quiet, modern street filled with structures of steel, glass, concrete and ambition. A single block from the…
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