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

Book Promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. I ALS...

I Am A Dragon In Shining Armour- Courtesy of Foxfier.

As most of you know, I am working on Bowl of Red. Which means when Foxfier posted this:

I am now hearing “Dragooooooon in shiiiiiining armor” to the tune of “bridge over troubled water.”

Tom started singing it in my head. But of course, he was just repeating that line.

So then Foxfier, who is perhaps having a slightly evil day suggested:

…..make a Challenge Post to filk the entire song.

And there it is. Go.

No Promo Today

Promo tomorrow. Sorry, guys, I was actually ill over night (long story. Probably through stupid garden tricks. I’m allergic to everything under the sun, so wading in to weeds and spreading seeds all over me might not have been the brightest move.)

So, promo and vignettes tomorrow. I kept hoping to wake up more, but still zonked and it’s five thirty.

A Strike of Zeal

So, something to do while we wait for things to go truly crazy.

In Portugal when I was growing up, used mostly by the left, there was something called “a zeal strike”, mostly employed when you couldn’t strike, because some meany government wasn’t letting you do so, or because your customers had had about enough. (Or both.)

I believe Heinlein called it White Mutiny (insert obligatory Ree of racisssssm, even though white in this case is in the same sense as “white magic” as opposed to “b...

Monsters of the Id

Normal human beings don’t aspire to power. Or I should say, normal human beings don’t aspire to power over everything and everyone.

Oh, it’s fairly normal in kids.

I know it will shock you, but I wanted to control the way other kids played with my toys (to some point, because thanks to several relatives abroad I had better toys than run of the mill in the village, and they had a way of ending up broken when other kids played with them) so I would enforce “the one correct way to play....

Thursday Morning Coming Down

It has dropped!

Like every time I change genre, let alone medium, I was very nervous, and it was probably a mercy I didn’t realize it was coming out yesterday but thought it was another week.

Anyway, the reviews are decent.

https://www.grahamcrackers.com/products/barbarella_1_2021_cover_a.htm

and:

https://comicalopinions.com/barbarella-vol-2-1-review/

I expect there will be the usual, you know “I didn’t read it, but I don’t like her” reviews, but it’s not like I ever care...

Nobody Knows The Trouble….

I’m becoming excessively fond of MeWe. It’s providing almost as much fodder for posts as FB used to, only from the other side. Maybe. I mean, these are at least purported non-leftists.

The problem, of course, is that due to both the American people’s tendency not to agree with anyone, including themselves individually, there are more sides to this argument than there are to an infinitely folded pocket universe.

Anyway, this person was self identified non-lefty, genus impatientus, speci...

Travel Day

I’ll try to put up a real post but we’re doing a cannon ball run to be there for the inspection tomorrow.

Keep fingers crossed.

Stop Collaborating With The Enemy

You ain’t Tokyo Rose. Before words come out of your mouth and memes out of your fingers, ask yourself “am I being used?”

For some reason, I keep running against this bilge on mewe. I think because honestly when I go to Facebook it’s mostly or private groups, a chat with a friend, or for echoing the blog posts. So time spent looking at my main page is….. short. Though to be honest, my time on FB is short and getting shorter.

What bilge? Oh, memes extolling the Chinese in relation to u...