owlmoose | Monday Media Musings: 01/19/26

The Scavenger Door by Suzanne Palmer : The third book in The Finder Chronicles; as much fun as its predecessors, and the end had me immediately turning around to start book four. Thoughts with spoilers: My favorite aspects of this story were Fergus learning to better control his Aasig-granted powers -- using them to "talk" with the key pieces, beginning to accept them as a part of himself -- and of course his relationship with Ilsa, who is an excellent character, and I hope she returns in the next book Non-spoilery thought: Suzanne Palmer sure knows what it's like to live with a cat.

Um Actually live show: I don't subscribe to Dropout, so I'm sadly unfamiliar with most of their shows, but during high pandemic, they dropped a bunch of Um Actually episodes on YouTube, and T and I spent a lot of time watching them. So when we learned that there would a live show at this year's SF Sketchfest, we immediately decided to get tickets. The panel, which was not announced in advance, was Janet Varney, Marc Evan Jackson, and Tawny Newsome; they were an awesome group who played well off the hosts and each other, and we had a great time.