End of year roundup...
Hey, folks, New publications this year: "Thanksgiving," 24 November, from Tablet, Ani Wilcenski and David Samuels, ed. (short story) "A Blessing of...
*taps mike*
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSwabs shoved up noses and rapid test scrounging Masking and face shields and HEPA...
Eight down, 24 to go (cancer stuff, horse stuff)
Well, that’s 25% of the radiotherapy done. It would have been a bit more, but today’s treatment was cancelled at the last minute because Medusa was in a snit...
Omicron and fascism
I’m spending a lot of time lately in the car, driving back and forth to radiation appointments. This means that I get ideas in the car (the best time to get...
The plague and the memory hole
We’re going to forget all about this, and that’s a terrible idea.
Still no jam today.
Medusa was out of sorts this morning. I still managed to get treated, but because everything was delayed, they didn't have time to do the tattoos. So I'm...
VGer is my lover.
Yesterday, I started radiotherapy. I could not decide whether to call this post "The Illustrated Boob," "They shot me with a proton gun," "The lion lies down...
The cat content you come here for
Gurney is a cat of vast dignity, curiosity, and intellect. Last night, for example, he happened to be inspecting the guitar amplifier when I tapped my...
CW: Cancer stuff update
Hey folks, Just wanted to check in and let you all know that things are finally moving again here. I got some good news on Monday, which is to say that my...
Book Club Post, November 2021
It’s come around again on the guitar, as Arlo Guthrie says: we’ve weathered the onset of the holidays, we’re battening down for the next Covid surge (sigh),...
New story! It's about mushrooms!
MUSHROOMS!
A Hole to the 80s
So yesterday was Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Day, one of the holidays in my personal calendar, along with Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The...
The Origin of Storms cover reveal!
Available for pre-order now, here!
A moment of silence, this Armistice Day
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and...
CW: Cancer stuff, boy am I tired edition.
So I’m sitting on the couch and I’m sort of trying to write but it’s not going especially well. I did some administrivia and answered some relevant emails,...
THE ORIGIN OF STORMS pre-orders are go!
24 May 2022! Cover coming soon!
a poem for the ladies
This is from 2015. I just found it again, looking for something else. Oh grand-daughters. You will not know what your mothers and your grandmothers knew; you...
It's all Ursula's fault.
So I've been dealing with the Cancer Bullshit and trying to do #nanomiddlemo, as it were--I.E., use the general November energy to get a chunk out of The...
CW: Cancer Stuff
So we’re still in a holding pattern here until the oncotype comes back (hopefully next week, when I have appointments Tuesday AND Wednesday (medical oncology...
I've been thinking about healthcare, health outcomes, and American exceptionalism.
Cancer stuff updates will be a little delayed, as everything is sort of up in the air scheduling wise as we deal with delayed testing results and a minor...