Greetings, Programs!
Welcome to my outpost on the Interweb! I write SF, fantasy, and horror for fun and profit. Other interests include music, nature, science, humor, food, bib overalls, and pie throwing (metaphorically AND literally). About Me Comments Policy Photo Gallery My Books: The Song of Forgotten Stars
Other BooksHow to make Buffalo Chicken Soup A Pie in the Face is a Wonderful Thing!
Where to Find Me On Social Media Facebook
(rarely updated)
BlueSky Threads Tumblr Instagram Flickr YouTube Tiktok (pending) My Substack: Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars SUPPORT!
CONTACT
Email:
kelly AT forgottenstars.net
Emails assumed publishable
unless requested otherwise.-
Previously
- Something for Thursday July 10, 2025
- Let’s close out a few tabs! July 9, 2025
- Tuesday Tones July 8, 2025
- A metaphor July 4, 2025
- Something for Thursday July 3, 2025
- Light is active. July 2, 2025
- Tuesday Tones July 1, 2025
- How can you tell if a dog is enjoying her life? June 30, 2025
- Something for Thursday (IMF edition) June 26, 2025
- Dave and Twiggy June 25, 2025
Recent Comments
- Roger Owen Green on Something for Thursday
- Roger Owen Green on Tuesday Tones
- Cynthia Hobson on Something for Thursday
- Roger Owen Green on The Queries of the Sunday Past
- Roger Owen Green on Exposure
Categories
- A Very Public Service Message
- Amongst the Stars
- and General Matters of Style
- Born On This Date
- Commentary
- FAB: Film, Audio, Book
- Fandom
- Fashion
- Guest Posts
- Life
- Meta
- music
- Newsletter Announcements
- Occasional Fiction
- Occasional Quizzes
- On Art
- On Bib Overalls
- On Books
- On Buffalo and The 716
- On Cats and Cat Life
- On Character
- On Clothing
- On Dogs and Dog Life
- On Drinks and Drinking
- On Exploring Photography
- On Food and Cooking
- On general matters of WTFery
- On History
- On Memories
- On Movies
- On Music
- On Nature
- On People
- On Pies In Faces
- On Poetry
- On Science and the Cosmos
- On Song
- On Sport
- On Tech
- On Teevee
- On Things I Find Funny
- On Tools of Various Trades
- On Travels and Adventures
- On Visual Arts
- Orion's Huntress
- Passages
- Photographic Documentation
- Photography: Streetscapes
- poetry
- Random Linkage
- Reading
- Seaflame!
- Sheesh
- Stardancer
- The Chilling Killing Wind
- The John Lazarus novels
- The Song of Forgotten Stars
- The Wisdomfold Path
- To Rant Is Divine
- Uncategorized
- Vlogging
- Writers
- Writing
Tags
- "National Poetry Month" (32)
- Anger and Rants (95)
- Bad Joke Friday (168)
- books (270)
- Buffalo (220)
- Burst of Weirdness (358)
- Comics (68)
- Daily Dose of Christmas (347)
- Daily Life Stuff (481)
- Events of the Day (249)
- Fantasy (97)
- Fiction (44)
- Food (178)
- Football (102)
- From the Books (50)
- Geek Stuff (267)
- Lazy Linkage (54)
- Meta-blog (278)
- Movies (332)
- Music (251)
- Nature (35)
- overalls (150)
- Passages (190)
- Photography (the subect) (56)
- Photo Posts (528)
- Pie in the Face (65)
- poetry (94)
- Politics (117)
- Quiz-Things (153)
- Saturday Centus (69)
- Saturday Symphony (69)
- Science (96)
- Sentential Links (380)
- Skiffy (232)
- Something For Thursday (726)
- Space Opera (141)
- Sport (85)
- Star Trek (32)
- Star Wars (160)
- Teevee (153)
- Tone Poem Tuesday (367)
- Unclassifiable (74)
- Unidentified Earth (90)
- Wednesday Dichotomy (303)
- writing (226)
Search
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: On Buffalo and The 716
Things that fly
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Photo Posts
Comments Off on Things that fly
My city
I haven’t edited this photo yet, seeing as how I jut took it yesterday morning, and I’m a couple weeks behind on my photo edits. But I wanted to share this one now because I really love this vantage point. … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Exploring Photography, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Photo Posts, Photography (the subect), WNY Love Letter
Comments Off on My city
Something for Thursday
I wanted to like this more than I did, but it’s worth watching, even if it’s way too frantic: it’s a short film comprised of drone footage of many of Buffalo’s architectural gems. I’ve been nearly everywhere in this film, and it … Continue reading
Indy and the BPO
At some point in the last ten-fifteen years, orchestras happened upon a new formula for a cash-cow event: performing the entire score to a movie as the movie itself played on a screen above them. These events have proven very … Continue reading
On the streets of East Aurora
A few weeks back I was able to spend an hour or so walking around the main drag of East Aurora on a Saturday evening (The Wife was out with friends! Can you believe that!). I was hoping for some … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Photo Posts, WNY Love Letter
Comments Off on On the streets of East Aurora
Bloody big ship!
I had a nice photo walk down by the Outer Harbor this morning. The inner canals and harbor inlets are still full of ice, but the main ship canal and Lake Erie itself are open. I saw this ship heading … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Photo Posts
Comments Off on Bloody big ship!
Spring in the Woods (supposedly)
The other day I went to Chestnut Ridge on what was the first sunny Sunday morning in what felt like months. Of course, being a typical Western New York spring, it was a cold morning and nothing at all is … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Nature, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Nature, Photo Posts
Comments Off on Spring in the Woods (supposedly)
Bloody big ship
The USS Little Rock, the Buffalo Military and Naval Park, Buffalo, NY.
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Photo Posts
Comments Off on Bloody big ship
Scenes from the Snowy 716
It took a while: we recorded one of our latest initial snowfalls, if not the latest initial snowfall, ever. It didn’t actually snow until November 30, and then last weekend we had our first trademark lake-effect storm of the year. This one … Continue reading
Posted in Life, On Buffalo and The 716
Tagged Buffalo, Daily Life Stuff, WNY Love Letter
Comments Off on Scenes from the Snowy 716