I was sick yesterday and crashed, spending my time sleeping and reading web comics (manga/manwa/manhua) in the villainess niche. My daughter Ray is getting me to read them, and…I kinda like them, and I’m thinking of writing a serial (not a manga) later, after I get my current serial work-in-progress Blind Date with Death up […]
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I talked to a best-beloved friend about celebrity versus authenticity, how it’s impossible to expect people to be “authentic” in front of a camera, and yet it’s still possible to find moments of connection. We were contrasting Neil Gaiman and Anthony Bourdain. And yeah, I don’t wanna drag Nail Gaiman shit out more than I
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I’m setting up materials for a mixed media journaling project/practice. (Or, rather, to resume a journaling practice.*) I did some journaling October/November for a project – which will come out eventually but I’m not ready to talk about – and really enjoyed it. The one I did was a mix of daily entries and short
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Update. I wrote the following essay on March 24, 2024, posted it on Facebook (as one does). Since then I have been keeping an eye out for additional information consistent or inconsistent with the idea that various groups are trying to leverage a political split in the US to disrupt elections and/or policy. That is,
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1. …and the power is out again. 2. Well, holy shit. I put everything in the freezer in a giant insulated freezer bag. Including two trays of ice cubes on their sides. The ice cubes were mostly unmelted this morning. I’m gonna cook & shred the uncooked meat (chicken thighs, chorizo) and put it in
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Power still out! Internet via cell 4G network super slow. Looks like power mostly restored on the Tampa side. May jump over to a Starbucks later; I need to be on a call this afternoon. Going out for a walk.
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1. Doing fine so far this morning! The storm turned a bit south last night. Pretty quiet, actually. Power & water still good. 2. Hurricane Ian/Tampa update. We’re finally seeing some wind and heavier rain. I went out walking earlier and the Hillsborough River water level was pretty low. 3. Power out! Going offline to
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Checking in. It just started raining. Sounds like tonight’s gonna be noisy but not horrible (40 mph winds, heavy rain, but landfall to the south). Some guy’s outside, bragging it up how bad it is, when the parking lot’s full of cars of people who didn’t evacuate. So tough there, buddy.
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Right! Ray and I are in Tampa, which means we’re in the path for Hurricane Ian. We were in St. Pete next to the bay, but now we are further away from the water, around Busch and 50th. We are near the top of the one hill in Tampa and are not actually in an
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Writers venting destructively about writing. Rant follows. Sometimes I see meme-type (not personal) posts venting about writing on my feed that are fucking stupid and worse than unhelpful, outright destructive of writerly sanity and joy. I’ve learned to leave those posts alone. I can’t make the people sharing these things stop hurting themselves through the
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