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The 15-year-old this morning at a zip line place: *steps into thin air to ride a half mile zip line with zero fear*

The 15-year-old this evening at a restaurant, expressing genuine anxiety: “I’m just afraid they’ll bring the mushrooms out before I’m ready for them.”

Thor: Love and Thunder seems pretty good. It’s hard to be totally sure since I watched it on an airplane after getting up at crazy-still-dark-AM-early o’clock and was too tired to be awake but too uncomfortable to be asleep. Continue reading “Flying to Hawaii”

Just listenin’ to the Beach Boys’ song “Hawaii”… in Hawaii. No big deal.

This year Deep Sky Anchor took a big step forward and released 9 all new, original pieces of fiction and one non-fiction essay! If you’re reading for awards or just for fun, we’d love to have you read them.

Here are links to all our original releases from 2022, along with their genres, approximate word counts, and the month they were released: Continue reading “Awards Eligible Stories in 2022”

I finally finished watching the 5 hour walk-through of Star Trek: A Final Unity, the video game I couldn’t figure out how to beat as a kid. I’ve been watching this thing in five minute chunks here and there for months now.

It… uh… still seems like not a great video game.

My kids will be going on their first airplane flight tomorrow. The 15-year-old is worried about all kinds of contingencies like the plane crashing in the ocean. The 9-year-old? Not worried, in fact, feeling totally prepared because they’ve played a Roblox game about that.

Well, this is a new problem—the main character in the novella I’m writing has so many siblings that I lost track and accidentally added an extra one. So, I’ve had to go back and remove that sibling.

Fortunately, I caught it before that involved changing more than one sentence.

People who hate the idea of AIs making all kinds of art clearly don’t have nearly as many EXTREMELY SPECIFIC types of art that they want to have exist in the world that are largely failing to do so.

I don’t have time to write and draw and compose all the art I want myself. Continue reading “More Thoughts on AI Art”

In the time between hearing Owl City’s first single and his latest, I’ve had entire friendships rise and fall — meeting, becoming close, drifting apart, falling out, and letting their presence in my life fade into the dull wispy ache of a memory of what we once were… Continue reading “Owl City Music and the Passage of Time”

I used to watch Pluto cartoons as a kid, and I thought the silly yellow dog was funny but didn’t know anyone like him.

Then I had a dog named Trudy for sixteen years. She had a lot of the same funny quirks, expressions, and behaviors as Pluto, but she was infinitely more real… Continue reading “Pluto Cartoons and the Passage of Time”