KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life

I've been over on Word Press since 2017, and after five years, it's time to officially retire this LiveJournal. I'm going to leave it open and the archives are still available for as long as LiveJournal lasts, though I've got everything from 2004-2017 archived just in case.

However, I will close out with a final guide to what's on the other blog to cover through to the end of 2021, just for completion's sake. If you want to know what's on the blog I actually update from 1 January 2022 onward, you'll just have to follow this link and keep following it.


Now on sale: Outside In Wants to Believe: 156 New Perspectives on 156 X-Files Universe Stories by 156 Writers, with my essay on The Lone Gunmen episode "The Lying Game."

Midweek music: "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn.

The traditional noon-on-Thanksgiving presentation of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant."

The traditional Thanksgiving post, stuff for what I'm thankful.

Friday fanfare: "Miles from Nowhere" by Cat Stevens.

Gratuitous cover post!!!!!

Happy book birthday to Devilish and Divine, which has my story "Unguarded."

Stuff of mine that came out in 2021.

A nice review of my 2004 Star Trek novel A Time for War, a Time for Peace.

The traditional winter solstice presentation of Susan Cooper's "The Shortest Day."

Midweek music is one of my favorite holiday songs, "Riu Riu Chiu" as performed by the Waverly Consort.

44 years of Christmas Eve, presenting (or at least describing) the family Christmas Eve pictures from 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021.

Prizes! Showing off my Christmas presents from family.

Highlights from the Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch's second year: the end of season four and all of season five, season six, and season seven.

Goodbye, 2021; hello, 2022.



Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch

"Strange New World," "Unexpected," and "Terra Nova."


Star Trek: Discovery reviews

"Anomaly," "Choose to Live," "The Examples," "Stormy Weather," and "...But to Connect."


4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch

Black Widow, The Suicide Squad, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.


Thanks to all of you who have followed this blog over the seventeen years it's been active. This was a great vibrant place once, and I'm sorry to see it fallen on such hard times. But there's also not much traffic here anymore, sadly.

See y'all on Word Press.......

Fell a bit behind on this........

Here's what's been posted to DeCandido dot WordPress dot com since *checks notes* the 12th of September. Oops....


Monday music: "Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down" by the J. Geils Band.

The Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays on Batman '66 are back in print!!!!!

On fighting class returning to the dojo for the first time in eighteen months.

Midweek music: Robbie Robertson's "Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight."

On being invited to go for my fourth-degree black belt.

A panel on Supernatural tie-in fiction on Con-tinual, with John Passarella, Tim Waggoner, and Gail Z. Martin.

I'm doing a Resident Evil graphic novel!!!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon between 27 August and 9 October.

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, links to three of my Tor.com rewatch articles, on Star Trek's "The Paradise Syndrome," Batman '66's "An Egg Grows in Gotham / The Yegg Foes in Gotham," and Star Trek: Voyager's "Tattoo."

A nice review (in German) of my novella Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 2.

Irons in the fire update.

Another American Sci-Fi Classics Track Quarantine Panel: Horror Movie Novelization readings!

A look at Star Trek: Prodigy's first couple of episodes.

A free Hallowe'en story on Patreon!

Midweek music: a very nifty live version of "The Shape I'm In."

My Sunday feeling on my father's 75th birthday and my black-belt promotion.

Monday music: "Bip Bop" by Paul McCartney & Wings.

Anticipating the first day of the black-belt promotion.

Links to my previous black-belt promotion essays.

Midweek music: the very apropos "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas.

On the first two days of the black-belt promotion.

A list of the top ten Supernatural novels, which includes all three of mine!

On the final three days of the black-belt promotion.

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon between 9 October and 15 November.

Friday fanfare: Pete Seeger's "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down."

Monday music: "Walking in Staten" from Saturday Night Live.

My yondan promotion essay.



KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Security Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Many Splendors Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Prophecy," "The Void," "Workforce, Parts I & II," "Human Error," "Q2," "Author, Author," "Friendship One," "Natural Law," "Homestead," "Renaissance Man," "Endgame," and seventh season overview.


Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch

Introduction, "Broken Bow," and "Fight or Flight."


Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews

"The Spy Humongous," "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie," "I, Excretus," "wej Duj," "First First Contact," and second season overview.


Star Trek: Discovery reviews

"Kobayashi Maru."



30-day song challenge

Day 1: "Blue, Red, and Grey" by The Who
Day 2: "4, 5, and 9" by Leadbelly
Day 3: "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran
Day 4: "New York is a Woman" by Suzanne Vega
Day 5: "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull
Day 6: "American Land" by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Day 7: "Radar Love" by Golden Earring
Day 8: "Yes, I Guess They Oughtta Name a Drink After You" by John Prine
Day 9: "‘S iomadh rud tha dhìth orm / Ciamar a nì mi ‘n dannsa dìreach" by Rhiannon Giddens
Day 10: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Warren Zevon
Day 11: "Coming into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie
Day 12: "Late in the Evening" by Paul Simon
Day 13: "Angelsea" by Cat Stevens
Day 14: "Get Down Tonight" by KC & the Sunshine Band
Day 15: "Coming into Los Angeles" by Sarah Lee Guthrie
Day 16: "The Rubberband Man" by the Spinners
Day 17: "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf
Day 18: "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" by the Beatles
Day 19: "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits
Day 20: "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel
Day 21: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
Day 22: "The Book Report" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Day 23: "He Don't Live Here No More" by Robbie Robertson
Day 24: "Stage Fright" by The Band
Day 25: "Space Oddity" by David Bowie
Day 26: "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Arlo Guthrie
Day 27: "Old Black Cat" by Ian Anderson
Day 28: "Combat Zone" by the Nylons
Day 29: "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
Day 30: "The Entertainer" by Billy Joel

Here's what I've posted to the other place called "KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life".........

I'm on a panel about Star Trek for Con-Tinual: The Con that Never Ends, alongside fellow Trek novelist John Jackson Miller, as well as fellow word-slingers Jeanne Adams, Nancy Northcott, and James P. Nettles.

I'm on a panel about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, one of the Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Track's Quarantine Panels, alongside Joe Crowe, Gary Mitchel, Michael Falkner, Darin Bush, and Madison Metricula.

I was on Drinking with Authors, talking about my life and career, and I have links to the audio version of the podcast and the video version of same.

I was Guest of Honor at the Virtual Bubonicon 52: Take Two. Check out my two program events: a reading from Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House and a panel on magic systems with S.M. Stirling, Sherwood Smith, A. Lee Martinez, and Chaz Kemp.

Midweek music is in memory of Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who passed away last month: "Sympathy for the Devil."

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon in the months of July and August.

Coming in 2022: Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, the followup to 2013's Ragnarok and Roll.

My con report for Dragon Con 2021.

Coming soon: The Gold Archive, monographs on Star Trek.

Friday fanfare: "The Rattlesnake Trail" by Jethro Tull.


KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Breakdowns, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Drive," "Repression," "Inside Man," "Body and Soul," "Nightingale," Flesh and Blood," "Shattered," "Lineage," and "Repentance."


Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews

"Strange Energies," "Kayshon, His Eyes Open," "We'll Always Have Tom Paris," "Mugato, Gumato," and "An Embarrassment of Dooplers."

Here's what's on the blog I update more than once a month......

Why we celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of July.

Cover and cover copy reveal for Devilish and Divine.

A panel featuring me, David Boop, Jennifer Brozek, Steven Paul Leiva, Yvonne Navarro, and Weston Ochse discussing the Turning the Tied anthology.

New Kickstarter featuring me: Phenomenons: Every Human Creature. This Kickstarter has now ended, and it was funded!

Preorder links for Devilish and Divine.

My Shore Leave 41.6 schedule, which came and went of course, but the panels were all archived on YouTube!

Irons in the fire update.

My Sunday feeling (on a Monday).

I will be at GalaxyCon Raleigh (which has since come and gone).

Monday music: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Dr. John.

Readings from Devilish and Divine by James Chambers, Russ Colchamiro, Robert E. Waters, and me!

An update on my crappy knees.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"Muse," "Fury," "Life Line," "The Haunting of Deck Twelve," "Unimatrix Zero," Sixth Season Overview, "Unimatrix Zero, Part II," and "Imperfection."


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 2, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Here's the latest from the the more active blog.............

On adding Seanan McGuire to the Kickstarter for The Four ???? of the Apocalypse.

Tuesday's dead, on various writerly, publishing, medical, and television things.

Ordering links for All-the-Way House.

Talkin' Trek with The Scotch Trekker podcast.

The Kickstarter for The Four ???? of the Apocalypse was successfully funded and then some!

Happy book birthday to All-the-Way House!

I'm interviewed by Paul Semel about All-the-Way House.

The (rescheduled) Turning the Tied three-day Zoom event!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon lately.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Tsunkatse," "Collective," "Spirit Folk," "Ashes to Ashes," "Child's Play," "Good Shepherd," and "Live Fast and Prosper."

KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.

"4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch"

Wonder Woman 1984 and Zack Snyder's Justice League.

The latest from the blog I update more often than once a month or so:

The Positively Trek podcast talks about my Trek novel The Art of the Impossible.

From the virtual Farpoint: me, David Mack, and Derek Tyler Attico talk about the enduring power of Star Trek.

My Sunday feeling on a new mask, going out into the world, karate, and other things.

Presenting from Whysper Wude: The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, now on Kickstarter!

On a most successful Pensacon weekend, my first in-person convention since March 2020.

Previews of my Systema Paradoxa novella All-the-Way House in both print and video form!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon over the last few weeks.


KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Here There Be Monsters: Part 3 and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 1: Part 1.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Pathfinder," "Fair Haven," "Blink of an Eye," "Virtuoso," and "Memorial."

Knew I forgot to do something in April.............

Here's what's been on my other blog since early March:

On our karate discipline's "Go Ju Kata," which was all our dojos from all over the country doing 50 katas together over two hours.

SHE RIDES! I finished and turned in Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House.

My piece for Tor.com on how WandaVision explored consequences in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

On the new novel by my friend Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Talkin' Turning the Tied, with some details about my story in the anthology.

From the virtual Farpoint: me, Mary Fan, and Kelli Fitzpatrick talkin' Star Trek: Discovery.

On getting my second shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Two books with me in them on sale!

Monday music: "Brewing in Elsinore."

The audio of Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets is out!

Monday music: a rap of the Canterbury Tales prologue.

Midweek music: "Walkin' Like Brando."

Icarus, a graphic novel I scripted, was one of the three finalists for the Ben Franklin Award for Best Graphic Novel, given by the Independent Book Publishers Association. (It won Silver.)

On being fully vaccinated from COVID-19.

I'm on The Captain's Table Podcast talking about my Star Trek novel The Art of the Impossible.

Monday music: "Open All Night."

An open letter to Balticon, which I am not attending.

Stuff I put on my Patreon in March.

Friday fanfare: "Kodachrome" by Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem.

Monday music: "New York State of Mind" by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

Midweek music: "Sweet-Tooth Jam."

I put 11 thoughts about the new Star Trek announcements on "First Contact Day" on my Patreon.

Margaret Wander Bonanno, RIP.

Friday fanfare: "Can You Picture That?"

I say it's my birthday! And it's way better than last year's!

On Wrenn's and my fourth wedding anniversary.

IT'S A BOOK! I got my copies of Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House!

I'm going to be a guest at Pensacon in May, my first in-person convention since the apocalypse started. (Ironically, my last in-person convention was also Pensacon in February 2020...)

Stuff I've posted to Patreon in April.

I have autographed books for sale!

I never could get the hang of Thursdays, in which my wife breaks a bone.

My Sunday feeling: Happy Mothers Day!

A decade of writing for Tor.com.

Jupiter's Legacy is a huge disappointment.

My first in-person event of 2021 is helping inaugurate readings at Ample Hills Creamery in Brooklyn on Tuesday the 18th!

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.

Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, an omnibus that includes Down These Mean Streets, is out in eBook format!

I'm on two nifty Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Track panels, one on The Addams Family movie at 30, one speculating on what the MCU would've been like if it had started in 1988 instead of 2008.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"Dark Frontier," "The Disease," "Course: Oblivion," "The Fight," "Think Tank," "Juggernaut," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "11:59," "Relativity," "Warhead," "Equinox," Fifth Season Overview, "Equinox, Part II," "Survival Instinct," "Barge of the Dead," "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," "Alice," "Riddles," "Dragon's Teeth," and "One Small Step."


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 1: Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 2: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
Star Trek: S.C.E.: Here There Be Monsters: Part 1 and Part 2.


The Falcon and the Winter Soldier:

A brief history of the title characters in the comics, plus reviews of "New World Order," "The Star-Spangled Man," "Power Broker," "The Whole World is Watching," "Truth," and "One World, One People."

Here's what we've had for the last month on the blog that I update more often than once a month.....

Friday fanfare is "Then the Music Begins" by Steve Rosenhaus, which features me on bongos.

Cover and table of contents for BIFF! BAM! EEE-YOW!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66--Season Two.

Monday music is "Combat Zone" by the Nylons, both in the studio and live.

Midweek music is "A Man Like Me," also by Steve Rosenhaus.

Friday fanfare is one of my favorite versions of the New Orleans classic "Fire on the Bayou," by the great Jim Byrnes.

Irons in the fire update!

We're doing a blog tour for Turning the Tied, and here's a guide to the first batch of blogs and here's a guide to the second batch!

Wrenn and I got our first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine!

The cover gallery (so far) for the Systema Paradoxa series of novellas about cryptids, including my own All-the-Way House.

New Story Bundle: Pulse-Pounding Thrillers, including Animal, my collaboration with Dr. Munish K. Batra.

Friday fanfare is one of my faves, Mark Knopfler's "Speedway at Nazareth."

An author interview on The Big Thrill about Animal.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch entries:

"Infinite Regress," "Nothing Human," "Thirty Days," "Counterpoint," "Latent Image," "Bride of Chaotica!" "Gravity," and "Bliss."

KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Cold Fusion Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 1, Part 1.

Here's the latest from my WordPress blog....

Me on the Dice Geeks podcast talking about writing and stuff.

I'm on a panel for Dragon Con's American Sci-Fi Classics Track about the 1990 Dick Tracy.

Monday music: "Weeping in the Promised Land" by John Fogerty.

Midweek music: "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young.

Me on Kingdom of Graph.

Friday fanfare: "Slippery People" by Talking Heads.

Me on Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" talking about Animal.

Me on The Mystery Hour with Con Sweeney on Second Life.

Monday music: "Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Also in honor of MLK Day, his famous "I have a dream" speech from 1963.

Cover reveal: my Systema Paradoxa novella All-the-Way House, coming out this summer.

Stuff what I'm writing in 2021.

An interview with me and my coauthor Dr. Munish K. Batra on Animal.

At last, a new President. (This was posted on Inauguration Day.)

Midweek music: "Presidential Rag" by Arlo Guthrie.

Friday fanfare: "Angelsea" by Cat Stevens.

The latest stuff I've posted to my Patreon.

Me, Derek Tyler Attico, and Jarrah Hodge talking about Star Trek with Russ Colchamiro on Russ's Rockin' Rollercoaster.

Monday music: "Bohemian Rhapsody" on trombones.

On rewatching old Aaron Sorkin shows, Sports Night and The West Wing.

Midweek music: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the Muppets.

I never could get the hang of Thursdays, on writing, the pandemic, and The West Wing.

Friday fanfare: Bruce Springsteen's solo acoustic version of "Land of Hopes and Dreams" from President Biden's inauguration.

Me on Criminal Element talking about procedurals and Animal.

Monday music: "Hey Jude" by the NC State Marching Band.

I did a Reddit AMA! (And hey, you can still ask questions there if you want....)

The table of contents for the upcoming charity anthology from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Turning the Tied.

Midweek music: Bach on boomwhackers.

My article for Tor.com on the way WandaVision is mining the history of American sitcoms, the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and most especially the history of the characters in their original comics form.




Star Trek: Voyager Rewatches:

"One," "Hope and Fear," fourth season overview, "Night," "Drone," "Extreme Risk," "In the Flesh," "Once Upon a Time," and "Timeless."


Star Trek: Discovery reviews:

"That Hope is You, Part 2" and the third season overview.


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Fatal Error Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Cold Fusion Part 1.

Here's what's been on DeCandido dot Word Press dot com over the last month.....

My 2005 Spider-Man novel Down These Mean Streets will be released in audio, and Blizzard has reissued my 2010 StarCraft manga Ghost Academy.

Friday fanfare: "Italian Christmastime."

I get my hot-offa-da-presses copy of Animal, the thriller I wrote with Dr. Munish K. Batra.

I did a Q&A on superhero movies as one of Dragon Con's American Sci-Fi Classics Track's "Quarantine Panels," along with Joe Crowe and Gary Mitchel.

A money-saving tip for cat owners.

Midweek music: "A Christmas Carol" by Tom Lehrer.

Friday fanfare: "New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel on the one-year anniversary of my seeing him in concert.

Dave Galanter, RIP.

Paul Semel interviews me about Animal.

My Sunday feeling on the impending holiday, a weekend full of Zoom gatherings, putting up our tree, and more.

The traditional winter solstice posting of Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day."

43 years of Christmas Eve (kind of).

What I put on my Patreon between mid-November and late December.

Stuff what I wrote in 2020.

Star Trek has put out its 800th installment!

Happy New Year!

A look back at 2020, primarily at the positives, even though the negatives were, um, a lot.

Happy book birthday to Animal!

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.


KRAD COVID readings:

"Unguarded" from Horns and Halos, "The Fall of Iaron" from the Dragon Precinct universe, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas, and Star Trek: S.C.E.: Fatal Error Part 1. Plus an announcement on the 2021 plan for the channel.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"The Killing Game" Part 1 and Part 2, "Vis à Vis," "The Omega Directive," Unforgettable," "Living Witness," and "Demon." I also posted highlights from the year's Voyager Rewatch posts, covering season one, season two, season three, and what I did of season four.


Star Trek: Discovery reviews:

"The Sanctuary," "Terra Firma" Part 1 and Part 2, "Su'Kal," and "There is a Tide..."


4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch:

The Old Guard and The New Mutants.