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Family House Lasers

Okay, the lasers are just for show. I’m in the middle of multiple crisscrossing crisis(es?) and can’t even think straight, much less write a post.

The short version and for public consumption is that both houses (short sale and other) under some tenuous contract to us are likely to fall through/have to be rejected which puts us back to square one.

The long version is ARRRRRRRGH.

That’s all. Back when sane. It could be a long time.

Tudors Tales and Turpitude – James Schardt

Tudors Tales and Turpitude – James Schardt

Greetings everyone. Normally, Sarah would either be posting here, herself, or would have someone who, at least, has a blog of their own post here. However, in the interests of keeping her writing the stories we all want to read instead of the unprofitable columns or gif posts she sometimes feels obligated to write, I am stepping in. Sarah, go write. We gots this. *cracks neck*

Brad Torgersen reposted a link to his “Nutty Nuggets” column Sunday. To s...

Social Critique

As you guys know yesterday I came across mention of an IO9 article that said that we’re already living in a science fiction world, and so all that was left now to justify science fiction’s existence was social critique.

I didn’t read the article, partly because it was IO9 and who the heck wants to wade in that, but the concepts struck me as worthy of “unpacking.” Frankly, they need to be unpacked, as it’s impossible to deal with that fermenting load of insanity in a single post. “Wrong too gr...

The Future Of The Past

*Sorry about lateness. I should know better than NOT to blog on Friday night. Saturday morning we always have errands which ends up making the blog very late. I’m not done either, I’m going to need to clean the cat boxes. I’m being glared at by Greebo as we speak, I’ll have you know.*

Yesterday in one of the groups I belong to and check irregularly, someone posted an article from IO9. Full disclosure, I didn’t read the article. Life is too short to hang out at IO9. But this is not about the a...

Taking a Day Off

Sorry. I don’t like taking days off from the blog, and I’ve taken too many, but I woke up at six am with all the symptoms of stomach flu. I’m fairly sure that’s not actually it, and suspect it’s just stress, but right now is the first I made it to the computer and way from the bathroom.

I have four short stories to write and deliver, and as you imagine those have precedence. So, I shall now work on those. Then I shall start the final going over of Darkship Revenge, hopefully to be done by Mon...

Voting For Free Soup

So, I hear Donald Trump is now promising free college. Don’t bother explaining that that wasn’t really what he said, or why it is the best idea possible. I’m not interested in the Donald. What I’m interested in is this idea of free college.

Free education was an idea of the liberals, back when liberals stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They had the idea — which was amiably passed on to me by my parents and grandparents — that you could educate anyone into … well… what they...

A Game Of Mirrors – A Blast From The Past From February 2015

*Hugo Season is here again, and the cry of the butthurt is heard in the land. I don’t have time to deal with it, so nip on over to the inestimable Nicki Kenyon’s blog for … well, blunt opinions, language, and some criticism of a sometime beloved science fiction author and a never loved science fiction poseur and some totally unwarranted insults to a fermented body secretion. Given what’s going on, it’s time to rerun the post below.*

A Game Of Mirrors – A Blast From The Past From February 201...

Paranoiacs Abroad

Yesterday I was thinking, always a terrible mistake, while I did the cat boxes and scrubbed the toilets (it was that kind of day) about how part of our problem today is not only that parts of our culture don’t know each other, but that parts of our culture actively know stuff about the other parts that absolutely isn’t so.

This is a problem for various reasons, one of them being that various parts of this vast and varied nation think they need the government to protect them from “those fellow...

Assumptions

I’m horribly late, partly because I slept late, but also because I feel still groggy. In explanation, we have an accepted offer on a house — not short sale — and hopefully will be permanently housed in a month and a half. Early days, yet, but tentatively that’s the plan, and just this is farther than we’ve been since November.

I must have been under a great deal of stress I didn’t even realize, because not only did I sleep better than I have in months, but I woke up late and still feel rather...

I’m Alive

Just slept really late, and dealing with an excess of blood in my caffeine stream. Post soon.