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It Was The Book Promo Before ChrisTmas And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

*First, I’m profoundly sorry at missing two posts last week. I do have a business post that must go up soon, and also at least a short story, but …. We had to go see family for various reasons. Getting to play with the baby of one of the readers was a bonus. I’ll be (a very tone deaf) Bach, but for now let’s deal with the delayed promo and vignettes. Cracks whip. On, internet hamsters! On Sluggish, on Confused, on Glitchy, on Typo,on Meme, on Spam, on Server Update, On very PARTICULARLY toda...

Why Does The Dumpster ALways Burn When I Am Away from Keyboard?

Why does the dumpster always catch fire when I’m away, and in this case busy getting a family-and-baby fix?

On the Poor Widdle Russia. Screw it, it isn’t, and it never was. Any time you are proposing to repeat FDR’s mistake of making several states slaves to another state’s paranoia, you’ve gone too far. FDR was not a good guy, in any way shape or form, and if he didn’t create the cold war all by himself, he certainly set the dominoes up, and it was only by the grace of G-d we didn’t end ...

Hurty Speech

In the left’s definition of “fascism” Musk is making Twitter fascist by “allowing hate speech.”

The problem, really, is that there is no hate speech. There is only speech. “Hate speech” or “misinformation” are terms used by people who hate free speech.

As you can tell from my post yesterday, I’m very fond of the first amendment which I hope will keep us from having to put the second to the purpose for which it was intended (the prevention of tyranny.)

But there’s other reasons for f...

Comfort and Safety

Having grown up in a time and place where electrical supply was unreliable and people had an uncertain grasp on how to work with electricity anyway — yes, the once and future time, what can I say? — so that you might very well have to take a candle with you to bed (HOW I never burned the house down trying to read till all hours is a minor mystery) because the electricity was out, again, or where people thought nothing of replacing that darn fuse that keeps blowing with a penny, I grew up wit...

The Worst Possible Responses We Could Get From The Stars – A Blast From The Past from August 2013

*With deepest apologies at doing two BFPs today. But we have a fridge being delivered at 7 am, and I was emptying current fridge and freezer till half an hour ago. I promise writing tomorrow – SAH.*

The Worst Possible Responses We Could Get From The Stars – A Blast From The Past from August 2013

The problem of getting into the frame of mind where you want to gore sacred cows is that sooner or later you’re going to run onto the fields of your childhood and gore Betsy, the cow who let yo...

Cute Pictures

First, wordpress has decided what we really need as bloggers is a dorky question at the top of the blog, which it won’t let us remove.

It’s obvious from the question it thinks we’re all 20 somethings with our heads full of mush and leftism (BIRM.) So it asks questions on the ethics of eating meat or such rot. It also would like kompromat, so it asks what thing we’re most sorry/embarrassed by. Or what we’re most envious of.

Let’s say I’d need to be really blocked on blog posts to writ...

Good Will To Men

Good Will to MenBy Sarah A. Hoyt

You shouldn’t have to bury your last friend on Christmas morning. Particularly not when the ice was thick and deep on the ground, and all you had as help was a scrap-built bot that looked like a giant snail and had done pass after pass over the chosen site, until it was warm enough to dig.

Sort of.

Brax adjusted his gloves, and glared down at the hole, now maybe four feet deep, and six by three. Beneath the ice and snow, the dirt was red like fre...

By Huns For Huns

I am writing a short story, and a bit…. uh…. late on it. Oh, the short story is for here.

So, in the meantime, I thought I’d promote a couple of Hun businesses, and let you put your own in comments.

Remember my friend who, despite being young — or a kid, really, as far as I’m concerned — managed to get “complications from Covid” to the point we almost lost him, and he did a fundraiser to get his business going again (because being incapacitated is expensive.)

Well, he’s getting his ...

A Forgotten Sale And An HR Complaint

First, being a Derp Canoe, I completely forgot I had a sale on on Dipped Stripped and Dead. Anyway, It’s up…. I think till the 12th, but don’t quote it, and it’s 99c.

Yes, new one is in the works, and honestly, I think I’m getting to the point my health is more reliable, and book will be out …. March-ish?

Dipped, Stripped and Dead

A Dyce Dare Mystery
When she was six, Dyce Dare wanted to be a ballerina, but she couldn’t stop tripping over her own feet. Then she wanted to be a lion ...

Bring On Your Best

At the instigation of Jolie, this is not exactly an open-floor post, but is close to.

She pointed out some things she was doing/we could do to fight back against the idiots in charge, at least insofar as not giving them our money. And asked for ideas.

I’m throwing this open, as well as “How to support our own” without giving a fortune in GiveSendGo, though…. well, it will continue to be a part of my monthly expenditures, as far as I can tell, because the worse things get (and going gr...