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Milestones and Millstones

Well. That had to be the world’s most blah milestone birthday. Though to be fair Dan and I and I myself are cursed. He’s not. He always manages to have a decent birthday for his milestone birthdays. Mine…. something always happens and our anniversaries… don’t get me started.

For mine, Dan wasn’t feeling… well, for health reasons, he couldn’t do much of anything, which kind of torpedoed my idea of driving out on a grand excursion. And of course it was too cold to even take a long walk...

Alive

The day just went sideways.

Ain’t Gonna Work Today

For reasons of something burning like cities in my wake.

I am both outraged that sixty years of age could happen to a nice girl like me, and very conscious that there was only one other option.

So, there is that.

BUT I’ve started the traditional sale — what you didn’t know it was traditional? — between my birthday and Christmas. Yes, it will include newer stuff. Yes, you can buy each of these (if you want) and have it delivered to someone’s kindle on Christmas morning and think of t...

Shaking the Kaleidoscope A blast from the past from December 23 2012

(Be not alarmed. Yes, still dealing with health things, but nothing critical just now. It’s just that I have posts to write but they’d take the stuffing out of me to write today, and I have books to write. -SAH)

Shaking the Kaleidoscope A blast from the past from December 23 2012

Clifford Simak’s City contains a device built into a kaleidoscope – you shake it, and look through it, and it alters your mind and your perceptions.

This is not a post about Simak, or City or Classical Scie...

ThERe iS ABsoLuTeLY nO fRAud!

Okay, I lied. About there being no post, I mean. Though the title is obviously a lie too.

Yes, I can hear a lot of you huff “prove there was fraud” and “It was womyz/those darn kids/people who tan! The evil bastages! Not fraud.” Then there’s the subset of Libertarian crazy — they’re my people, doesn’t mean I don’t see where they’re insane — who assumes that the country is their own personal circle and huffs “It was those darn socons pushing soconny things.”

Frankly? You’re all full of ...

Not Doing A Post Today

Back tomorrow at least with a guest post. We’ve been having a veritable “health events” carnival this week, and I’m starting to suspect…

Well, in Giovanni Guareschi’s Don Camillo stories whenever something happened where the priest might do or say the unadvisable…. the phrase goes something like “The good Lord sent a fever that prostrated him for a week, so he didn’t even know what was happening.”

It’s not that bad, but there’s a bunch of things we can’t figure out have have to be pursued ...

Beyond the Red Rage Horizon by Analytical Engine mechanic

Beyond the Red Rage Horizon:Fighting Well on the Inner Frontby Analytical Engine mechanic

We passed the Rage Horizon a few weeks ago.

— Ian Bruene, ATH comment, Jan. 11 2021

You just passed Beyond the Red Rage Horizon, sounds like.

So welcome to where much of the rest of America has been for months now.

— “Cecilia Gray” c/o this writer, ATH vignette, Feb. 5 2021

Once upon a time, in a far-distant world we called 1980, Frederik Pohl came out with a novel called Beyond t...

Special Effects

There are still “races” going on for the legislature. By which you might very well read “being stolen and taken away in a sack by the “democrat” election fixers”

You also forgot one important thing: no one pays attention to each individual race in the midterms, which means it makes the whole thing EASIER to steal.

Meanwhile, what is the right fighting about? Oh, yes.

1. “Was it fraud?”

We told you it was fraud. We pointed out it was fraud. We told you how the fraud would be effec...

Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

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And I Feel A Little Peculiar

One of the most charming insults since I came out of the political closet going on 12 to 14 years ago was that I was “a little peculiar.” It was said by a Britisher of course, and it was charming and almost endearing compared to the bilge, sewer water and outright maligning that’s come my way.

Weirdly I haven’t lost ALL my talent. That’s normally what happens first. But there are a few holdouts on that side (mostly those who have read me) who say I can still write I’ve just gone insane, ...