Category: Blog

That feeling when someone tells you that something you’ve written is “voicey,” and that’s kind of neat, but also? You just don’t see it, because it sounds completely plainly said to you.

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My 15-year-old made cranberry-orange cookies today, and I’m usually very much a proponent of dessert = chocolate, but wow, these things are good. Continue reading “Voice and Cookies”

I’m a little troubled on this rewatch of Gremlins by the extent to which the humans just start immediately slaughtering the mogwai as soon as they no longer have cute fuzzy fur.

A surprising amount of the gremlins’ aggression and chaos is simply coming off as self-defense… Continue reading “Rewatching Gremlins”

I know the song “Bad to the Bone” predates Terminator 2, but clearly, the reason it came into existence in the universe was so that it could appear there.

I just broke 10k on the short story I’ve been writing that I think might be turning into the book about the Xeno-Native cult on Crossroads Station that I’ve wanted to write for like fifteen years but never knew how to approach.

I guess, it just took getting a surprise wedding invitation to inspire me.

My spouse just tried to do the point-and-scream thing from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it came out more like Chewbacca… so…

Invasion of the Wookie Snatchers!

We took our kid who wants to be a marine biologist to the aquarium today, and I found this little guy!

She was hugging a lollipop in the gift shop, and when I saw her, I literally exclaimed in delight, “Why are you green?!”

I’ve named her Cactus Rose. She’s small enough to carry everywhere in my pocket, and I love her.

Oh, and yes, she can also hug one of my fingers and be worn like a ring.

 

Rewatching Home Alone for the first time in years because my younger kid knew about it from Roblox but hadn’t seen it…

And I’m really appreciating the acting skill necessary to pull off the role of the mother. That’s a tricky part, and Catherine O’Hara does a beautiful, nuanced job. Continue reading “Home Alone 1 & 2”

I will always love the song Feliz Navidad, because it will always sound like Big Bird ice skating to me.

This thought brought to you by the new Pentatonix holiday special and, of course, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street which is the best and most important Christmas special ever. Continue reading “Pentatonix, Sesame Street, Roblox, and Squid Game”

I’m not worried about AI replacing me as a writer, because the reason I write is that no one in the world was writing the books I wanted, namely Otters In Space. If I wanted to read them, I had to write them myself.

Even with an AI helping, I’d still have to provide that idea. Continue reading “The Possibilities with AI”

Taking inspiration from other works is literally not plagiarism, and while one can argue about the artistic value of AI art, I have yet to see a single case of an artist being able to point at a specific work that is actually plagiarism.

You can’t and shouldn’t be able to own a style. People copy each others’ styles all the time. Continue reading “Stable Diffusion is a Hammer”