Category: Blog

Me: Why do I have to care?

Spouse: You’re alive. You want something, if only a glass of water.

Me: I don’t want to want something… I don’t want to follow narrative rules. I don’t want to be in a story. Especially not one written by Kurt Vonnegut.

I got a hummingbird feeder for Christmas, and it’s already getting visitors!

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Their little wings are so much louder than I expected!

It’s confusing how “masking” means both:

• wearing a piece of cloth on your face to protect yourself and others against illness
• contorting your personality to fit uncomfortable and seemingly random social norms leaving you constantly exhausted and unsure who you even are

Continue reading “Masking”

I played Magic: The Gathering for the first time today in about 25 years. A quarter of a century. Wow.

We taught my kids and mom to play, using a special kit of five balanced starter decks. Amazingly, everyone had fun. We don’t usually all like the same game like that. Continue reading “Magic: The Gathering”

I’ve only seen Die Hard once, many years ago, so we thought it’d be fun to watch it and figure out if it’s a Christmas movie, because my vague memory says it’s not.

So far… it seems less like I have an opinion on whether it’s a Christmas movie & more like I just don’t like it…

It seems unfair that’s it’s under freezing… and raining. If it’s going to be this cold, the condensation should be SNOW.

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So much slush reading…

It’s both wonderful to be deluged with furry stories now that Zooscape is open again and also kind of overwhelming.

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.