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Father’s Day by the Baloonatic

*Yes, I know this is late. Look, we’ve been driving all over creation — again — in a repeat of 2020, in fact. So I lost track of time. Though we did manage a deranged enough feat of driving to ALMOST have Father’s Day with both boys. (Though not together, because that would take a teleporter.) Anyway, it’s still good. – SAH.*

Father’s Day by the Baloonatic

My father is 87. He grew up on a small farm on an island in the Great Lakes. While all of his siblings went to university, he ended...

Faces In the Crowd

These observations are highly individual and it might be a matter of the sample choice. But there is a picture building in my head, and I’m going to put the image out there, and see what comes back from your own observations.

Almost a year ago, my husband and I were walking through a car museum and something dawned on me. those early model-T and such have tiny seats. Yes, yes, I know, we’re all soooo fat, etc. Newsflash, if you look at your family pictures, you might very well find fat ...

There Will Be No Post Today

UPDATE: Appointment made for tomorrow to deal with the end-of-the-world coughening. Had the last of the prescription cough syrup last night, from last time I was very ill, and it’s dealing with it, so I have slept and I’m going to go work.

Post maybe later.

I have no explanation fUor this, other than: for the last month or so I got a cough that makes no sense. Could be smoking Canada, who knows? Or it could be my asthma being stupid. I’m getting horrible eczema again, so it could be asthm...

Memeing While The World Burns

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It’s Just A Step To The Left

Good Morning kids! The world is on fire, and I do have things to say, but I also have family stuff all day (and probably tomorrow.) I might post some scattered thoughts tonight, if I’m still functional by bed time. On the good side, I managed 9 hours last night, which is better than the three to four I’ve been averaging.

But the thing is my assistant bullied me to post this. (Holly, this is ALL your fault.)

We have a new cover for No Man’s Land. I think this is the final one. And the boo...

Everything’s Gonna Tumble

Fun fact: when I was little I thought going over Niagara Falls in a barrel was something people did at least once in a lifetime, for the heck of it. Like, I was convinced there were long lines of people, rolling barrels, waiting their turn to go over the falls.

You see, it was featured in so many of the things I read or watched, like adventure books, or comics, or cartoons, that I thought it must be part of a normal life thing. You went to Disneyland (well, that was featured in the comic...

Long Ago, It Must be

There is a strange theory upheld by a subset of the nuttubers that time stopped in 1999, just before new year’s and everything since then has been a vivid dream.

Look, it’s not even the weirdest theory in that corner of youtube. And in my defense, I only go to youtube when I’m either trying to research something very specific and can’t find it written out, or when I’m trying to not work because I’m too tired/sick and will screw up whatever it is I’m supposed to be working on. In that st...

Land Acknowledgement

For the last two years I’ve been living under a rock, or rather under a novel. So it was only recently when Charles III (Seriously. What was Elizabeth thinking when she named him that, anyway?) put on a spectacular show of ignoring history and mouthing platitudes that I became aware of land acknowledgements.

Being me, and therefore naturally altruistic and giving, I thought I’d save all of you the trouble of crafting your won land acknowledgements by giving you a template.

First to exp...

By Firelight

Are you surprised?

Well, I am. I’m surprised the bullshit in Los Angeles isn’t all over the country by now.

I’m not surprised at the bullshit itself. It’s a hot combo of the left having entered the last, desperate point of their ghost dance, their having imported a lot of military age men that they think would be a reliable army, and their wanting to recreate the “success” of BLM and the 2020 Summer of love.

Oh, and the fact we are a nation so great we pay people to riot against us....

The Memes! The Memes!

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