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March 30, 2017
When Reality Kicks Back
I really didn’t feel like writing a post today, but I seem to have misplaced all my guest posts. (Yeah, if you sent and it hasn’t run, send again.) Which leaves me with…
Well, yesterday this was doing the rounds of our circles: Sales, Earnings Fell at PRH in 2016.
First of all, what doesn’t this mean? It doesn’t mean Random Penguin is in serious trouble. Not yet. It doesn’t mean the entire edifice of traditional publishing is going away, either.
Look, at this point, just like Hollywood...
March 29, 2017
Seeing What Is There
The hardest thing in the world is seeing what is right before your eyes when it contradicts what is in your mind.
In most cases, when someone asks “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes” it’s supposed to be a laugh line. But when the “me” is someone who’s been lying to you since you were born, the answer is often “you.”
I’m not talking of bad parents, though the mechanics is similar. By evolution and attachment not to mention affection, we tend to believe and trust those who r...
March 28, 2017
Who Is The Customer? – Kate Paulk
*I think this essay of Kate’s is very important because so many times people taking money from us by force (the IRS, say) and using it for things we would never buy, act like it’s for our own good, and we’re the customers who purchased the goods, after all.
Let us remember without the choice to be or not to be a customer there is no private property and no freedom of association. If someone can force you to buy “insurance” because they think it’s for your own good, you’re not free. If someo...
March 27, 2017
Identity
No, not collective, group, or much of anything.
This is a post written in haste. Last night in the middle of the night, I felt myself coming back to myself.
I don’t know how else to describe it. I just woke up and thought “Oh, I’m normal now” and then I turned in bed and went back to sleep.
This has happened before, usually after prolonged illness. This time it surprised me, because I wasn’t aware I’d been off long. Oh, sure, the short prednisone course. It was good to feel my heart sett...
March 26, 2017
News and Announcement From Sarah, Pomp and Promo by Free Range Oyster, & Winsome Sunday Vignettes- by Luke, ‘Nother Mike and Mary Catelli
The good news, at least for me, is that I took the last dose of Prednisone this morning. Well, at least last for the foreseeable future. However since my doctor doesn’t believe in tapering, the next couple of days MIGHT be rough. All the same, glad to be done with this. Large portions of the last few days have been devoted to trying to get my brain from jumping all over. I might have added three books to the TBW cue, too.
Announcement: I don’t know if it...
March 25, 2017
Coyote Gravity by Christopher M. Chupik
You know the moment. Wile E. Coyote (Super-Genius) has ordered his high-tech equipment from Acme and is busy creating his elaborate trap which will catch the Roadrunner. But while he’s doing this, the Roadrunner sneaks up behind him and beep-beeps loudly, startling Coyote right off the cliff he’s standing on. For a moment the Coyote hangs suspended in the air. Then he looks down. Gravity reasserts itself with a vengeance and he plummets helplessly...
March 24, 2017
The Coup
There was a revolution in the hen house, and Felix the Red (Bantam) was in charge.
The hen house was how Felix thought about it, even though these days the ladies preferred to be called layers, after their occupation, and even though there was another rooster here, Gus. This is what came from having inexperienced chicken breeders. They should know that there was absolutely no way you could get away with two roosters in the same coup. But they had thought since Felix was a bantam rooster, a...
March 23, 2017
Cross-Culture
I am a cross-cultural being. As such, I am weirdly aware of the various … gradations… of what is culture, what is biological and what is probably reinforced in biology by culture over the centuries.
Say you’re a woman in a country that puts women to death for being lippy. Most indications would be that lippy women would get weeded out of the culture. Except things are more complicated than that, when it comes to human tendencies and inclinations. I.e. “It’s not that simple.” You could be...
March 22, 2017
From Where came the Were? – Alma Boykin
*I NORMALLY don’t run two guest posts, back to back. However, I’m back on prednisone and trying to finish a novel. the autoimmune was going crazy with the stress of the last week or so. So, cut me a little slack for one day. And enjoy Alma’s great post. – SAH*
From Where came the Were? – Alma Boykin
Shape-shifting individuals, and animals that take on human form, seem to appear in almost every folk-lore around. They have become the mainstay of paranormal fantasy, in the process losing th...
March 21, 2017
The Ease of Evil – Kate Paulk
This morning I read Marina Fontaine’s review of Downfall (http://marinafontaine.blogspot.com/2017/03/netflix-review-downfall.html), yes, including mention of that scene, the one that’s been recaptioned several gazillion times, some with more humor than others. In the review, she asks why the fascination? What is it with the Nazis and Hitler?
I have a theory. It is purely mine, based on reading a metric crap-ton about all manner of things (and don’t ask me for c...
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