# doris (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover doris. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Black Swan](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/the-black-swan) _2026-07-22 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ Desire, longing and growing up. ## [One of Us: A Lost Boys Festival](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/one-of-us-a-lost-boys-festival) _2026-07-17 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ The home of Return to Santa Carla: preserving the stories, places and people behind The Lost Boys, while building toward the 40th anniversary celebration in Santa Cruz, California. ## [My Friend Tom](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/my-friend-tom) _2026-05-31 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ On the quiet greatness of Tom Dumont ## [Back soon.](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/back-soon) _2026-05-01 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ Taking a quick break ## [The Doris Day Series: Part 8](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/the-doris-day-series-part-8) _2026-04-28 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ How "Sentimental Journey" captured a nations mood. ## [The Doris Day Series: Part 7](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/the-doris-day-series-part-7) _2026-04-21 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ Day breaks... ## [Do we ever stop striving?](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/do-we-ever-stop-striving) _2026-04-17 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ Pontifications following my birthday. ## [The Doris Day Series: Part 6](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/the-doris-day-series-part-6) _2026-04-14 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ Doris's first marriage ## [The Doris Day Series: Part 5](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/the-doris-day-series-part-5) _2026-04-07 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ The coming of the Day ## [My SUPER SMITHS pilgrimage](https://jenotterbickerdike.substack.com/p/my-super-smiths-pilgrimage) _2026-04-02 · Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · Rock N Roll Confidential_ BEYOND ANYTHING I COULD HAVE DREAMED!! ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z1G4hSBypM6s) _2026-04-02 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [Interesting Links, October 2025](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/10/26/interesting-links-october-2025/) _2025-10-26 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ A couple of essays on translation: Paul Reitter at The Hedgehog Review, on translating Kafka On the difficulty of translating subtleties of grammar that don’t have direct equivalents in English, and the different priorities shown in different versions of “The Metamorphosis.” Michael Marcus on Medium, on different translations of Borges Spoiler: they’re all good. But … Continue reading Interesting… ## [Science Fiction Awards in 1974, Part 2](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/09/23/science-fiction-awards-in-1974-part-2/) _2025-09-23 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ (Continued from Part 1; read the linked post first!) Part One of this post was a couple weeks ago, so I thought I’d start by repeating the list of stories that got both Hugo and Nebula nominations in 1974: Michael Bishop, “Death and Designation Among the Asadi”: An ethnographer living among ostensibly uncivilized aliens goes … Continue reading Science Fiction Awards in 1974, Part 2 → ## [Science Fiction Awards in 1974: Part 1](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/08/23/science-fiction-awards-in-1974-part-1/) _2025-08-23 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ This will take explaining. A few years back I wrote a series on the short stories, novellas, and novelettes nominated for both a Hugo and a Nebula award. The point, often missed, was to take them as a group and ask what might have appealed to genre fans. I got as far as 1973, then … Continue reading Science Fiction Awards in 1974: Part 1 → ## [On Stanislaw Lem’s Imaginary Magnitude](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/06/22/on-stanislaw-lems-imaginary-magnitude/) _2025-06-22 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ Ever read an introduction and decide the book itself would be superfluous? I can’t help but imagine Stanisław Lem had that experience; it could have inspired Imaginary Magnitude (translated into English by Marc E. Heine in 1984), his volume of introductions to nonexistent books. One of which feels out of place, and it’s not the … Continue reading On Stanislaw Lem’s Imaginary Magnitude → ## [How I’ve Been Wasting Time](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/06/15/how-ive-been-wasting-time/) _2025-06-15 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ So, the world. It’s not going well; not really functioning. It feels like we’ve been invaded by demonic forces—though, really, it’s not an invasion, just the demonic forces who were always around taking hold of levers and dials we long ago stopped paying attention to. Keeping them away from the levers always felt like someone … Continue reading How I’ve Been Wasting Time → ## [On Doris Piserchia’s Spaceling and The Dimensioneers](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/03/03/on-doris-piserchias-spaceling-and-the-dimensioneers/) _2025-03-03 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ I don’t post often. It’s not from lack of trying. I half-start posts and don’t finish them. Once I’ve made some notes my brain shifts into “Task accomplished!” mode. “These sentence fragments are technically a complete idea! Time to think about something else!” If I push past that, two-thirds of the way through any post … Continue reading On Doris Piserchia’s Spaceling and The Dimensioneers → ## [On Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/02/16/on-dino-buzzatis-the-singularity/) _2025-02-16 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ The army recruits Timid Professor Ermanno Ismani for a project. What this project is the officers can’t or won’t say. Not only can’t they tell him what they know, they can’t admit to not knowing anything. But Ermanno’s and his wife Elisa—the real protagonist, who probes the plot as Ermanno works obliviously—sign up. They travel … Continue reading On Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity → ## [Outsourcing Your Imagination](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2025/01/20/outsourcing-your-imagination/) _2025-01-20 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ 1. In November of 2024 Donald Trump was reelected president of the United States. The consequences were grave. American pundits, with their usual fine political instincts, zeroed in on the gravest question of all: How would families talk to each other at Thanksgiving without everybody’s mellows getting harshed? Thanksgiving used to be a meal we … Continue reading Outsourcing Your Imagination → ## [On Doris Piserchia’s I, Zombie](https://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2024/08/27/on-doris-piserchias-i-zombie/) _2024-08-27 · Wesley · Recurring Bafflement_ 1. The more science fiction and fantasy you read the easier it is to guess where any given premise will go. When a book upends your predictions you feel like you’ve got something special. Doris Piserchia—like Margaret St. Clair, another neglected SF writer—has a talent for dodging the predictable narrative. Take the first Piserchia novel … Continue reading On Doris Piserchia’s I, Zombie →