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A writer writes!
(Click to embiggen)In the old days, when reading usually meant you were holding a physical book or magazine or manuscript in your hand, if something you read so infuriated you or was simply awfully...
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Camp NaNoWriMo and the continuing adventure of resetting
Camp NaNoWriMo is underway, sponsored by the same people who do National Novel Writing Month. Camp happens in April and July each year with far more nebulously defined goals that NaNoWriMo’s bit word...
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Slippery slopes and projection
(click to embiggen(There were a lot of people posting on social media about several of the big tech platforms removing Alex Jones’ podcasts, videos, and so forth from their services for repeated...
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Sometimes someone needs an explanation
“I have been forced to explain homosexual relationships to my four year old because his uncle is gay. This incredibly difficult and traumatic conversation went as follows: Child: Why does Uncle Bob go...
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A round up of Hugo round-ups
(click to embiggen)I thought that I had tapped the Schedule button on this post last night, so after finishing a somewhat grueling day at work (yes, even when working from home work can be grueling and...
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Gentlefolk, Start Your Rockets, er, Hugo Ballots!
The Hugo trophy given out at NolaCon II, New Orleans, 1988. Trophy designed by: Ned Dameron Photo by: Michael BenvenisteThe Hugo Online Ballots have finally opened! Which means I have a lot fewer...
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Confessions of a Rambler, or, my blogging style is verbose, okay?
Since the rich are the top of the food chain, bio magnification means that they accumulate maximum toxins in their bodies. It is not safe to eat the rich. Better to compost them.Some years ago a friend...
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Confessions of an old white-bearded blogger
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that the most recent Friday Five was an almost unreadable mess. The reason is kind of a funny (infuriating) story. I logged out of my work computer...
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Friday Five (nobody should be poor edition)
OMG, it’s the first Friday in August! I don’t want to talk about work. It’s been weird. Our weather had also been weird. Earlier this week I started to freak out because the squirrel who was very...
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Blast from the Social Media Past
Lisa Simpson reading her friends’ posts in an image from The Simpsons © Gracie Films, © Fox Television, et al I was kind of shocked while checking email this morning to see a notification from...
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