An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Doing a quick run of the numbers, it looks like I’ve sold 44 times as many copies of my books this year as the publisher who unceremoniously dumped them managed to sell last year.
And this year isn’t over.
That publisher was holding me back. Self-publishing is the way.
There’s a lot of art and random commentary from people devoted to the idea that even as you age, you still feel like the same young person inside, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that. At least, in my experience so far, yes, it seems mostly true.
Except for one thing I’ve noticed. Continue reading “Decades and Waking Up”
My teen is trying to make the case that they should drop out of calculus. So far their arguments include, “I can think of five ways garter snakes could kill a person” and “Children don’t scream enough.”
Well, my family tried to watch Agatha All Along…
But after one episode we realized we didn’t remember WandaVision well enough, so instead of proceeding to the second episode, we rewatched the first half of WandaVision. Continue reading “First Episode of Agatha All Along”
I had a dream that Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was a video game I was playing, but the characters in it were the family from Malcolm in the Middle. And there was this time loop where you had to go back in time to beat the big ghost boss, and the big reveal was that you learned Francis had been Hal all along but at a different age, because you needed him at three ages — Hal, Francis, and the baby — fighting together to beat the big ghost boss. And when we won, there were lots of good Ghostbuster toys for everyone. Continue reading “Darkbusters in the Middle”
Me: mentions Gene Kelly in Brigadoon because I’ve been writing a story called “Treegadoon”
Friend: misreads Gene Kelly as Gene Wilder
Other Friend: mentions they haven’t seen Brigadoon
Me: writes whole essay on Brigadoon with a focus on replacing Gene Kelly with Gene Wilder Continue reading “Brigadoon (Starring Gene Wilder???)”
The Men in Black trilogy starring Will Smith is truly excellent. The first is a complete classic with iconic moments all the way through; the third is surprisingly tight and lands a complicated time-travel story beautifully.
And the second… it has a talking pug dog sing along with the barks in “Who Let the Dogs Out.” Continue reading “Men in Black 1-3”
To be a craftsman, you must be able to create high quality work reliably.
To be an artist, you must have something that you feel compelled to communicate. Continue reading “Magic Do As You Will”
It’s small, but I really love how good AI is at things like this…
Me: Can you think of a word somewhere between “crashed into each other,” “crossed paths,” and “collapsed”?
And instantly, ChatGPT provides “collided” which is exactly the word that had been eluding me.