Category: Blog

Hey, Eugene people,

My kid has been seeing JEFF SPERLA at BETTS PSYCHIATRIC, but he has gone off the rails. Today, he fat shamed my kid, interrogated him about his snacking habits, berated him for still masking in public to protect against Covid, and finally punished him for basically not fitting some weird mold that this doctor had in mind by withholding ADHD meds THAT THE DOCTOR HIMSELF HAD RECOMMENDED. Continue reading “Jeff Sperla”

I don’t seek out arguments about AI, because it’s not worth my time. But if someone who’s clearly connected to a community I value comes at me, I do my best to discuss the topics reasonably. And when I do… it’s just so sad how circular and incoherent the anti arguments are.

I guess that saying this might draw more people into arguing at me. And that thought makes me tired. But also, I decided some time ago that I wasn’t going to let the meanness of the anti crowd make be quiet. Continue reading “Peer Pressure”

That feeling when you realize that something in the book you’re writing may contradict established canon in a related book you’ve already published, so you do a bunch of research on your own works… finally concluding that it’s fine, and you’d already dealt with the problem.

Poems are weird. It’s hard to tell when they’re done. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if they’re anything at all until they’ve sat in your mind a long time and somehow not disappeared.

I just finished rewatching The Good Place for the first time since it ended. The end hit me way harder this time. It’s only a few years later, but I was under 40 then and am over 40 now.

I think… I still felt immortal just a few years ago, and now I’m wrestling with mortality. Continue reading “Not Wanting to Walk through the Door”

I’ve had several people aggressively suggest I should be hiring artists for the project where I illustrate each chapter of the Otters In Space series and then post them here rather than messing about with AI myself.

That would so expensive in emotional effort and money, and this is a for-the-love project. Continue reading “For-the-Love Project”

There may be too many hills I would die on…

I should probably avoid hills.

For sale: vampire shoes, barely burned.

I’m starting to suspect my #NaNoWriMo novel won’t be done at 50k…

Of the three times I’ve won NaNo before, two of those novels were just about exactly 50k when done (Nexus Nine & In a Dog’s World). The third is the longest thing I’ve ever written at 97k (Entanglement Bound).

That feeling when you realize you need to change the species of one of the characters in a furry book you’ve half-finished writing, and so you have to go back and make sure you catch Every. Single. Description that will now be wrong and rewrite it to something else.