Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 70

Do It For Love

Yes, I know, I have told you to do it for spite. And you know, if you can’t muster love, then duty, need or spite will do.

But if you can do what you do out of love, it really works better.

I’m one of those people who tends to get lost. Mostly because I have ADD, but also because I get depressed. And when I get depressed, I can — sometimes — still produce, but I don’t enjoy it, it’s a slog, and forcing myself to work makes me more and more depressed.

Which you could call “the story ...

Buckets of Icy Water

I have never been woken with a bucket of icy water to the noggin. In fact, most such I’ve seen are scenes in movies of someone pouring a bucket of ice water over the head of a drunkard.

I do, since I’m confessing, confess that I once woke my younger son by dropping a cup of ice on him. In my defense, we had an appointment and he was 13 and taller than I and impossible to wake. The result was, btw, amazing, and once I was done peeling him off the ceiling, I decided never to do that again, ...

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

*We’re now, hopefully, fixed at home till Spring, save for maybe day trips. We’re down to two kittens, one of which — Circe — we’re keeping, and the other — Toast 2.0 — adopters will be getting after thanksgiving. Circe is on my shoulder, as I type this. But this post isn’t late because of the kittens and travel (except second order effects of much travel). It’s late because as some of you know, I’ve been feeling “off”. It manifested as a massive ear infection on my birthday. I’m on antibiot...

Delayed due to Internet Hamsters

Or maybe it’s internet quail. Or even kittens.

There will indeed be a promo post, at some point, but later, after spending time with family.

So! I am to relay a short story from real life:

Once upon a time our hostess’ future-daughter-in-law decided to take up raising quail. Since landlords frown on such inside apartment buildings, these quail reside in our hostess’ back yard. During Son of Silvercon, a minor quail event occurred, the three residents of one cage vanished! The house...

And Memes Are ALL I Have

A Symptom Of Being Human

I was going to write about the power of love. Mostly because I’m realizing the depths of depression I’d fallen into and the kittens are bringing us back to life. Little Circe, particularly, really loves her daddy and it’s healing his heart.

BUT– But lately I’m running into the narrative on Jews that is really just anti-antisemitism in glad rags. “All Jews are commies, destroying western civ. Why should we support their war.”

It’s…. interesting, shall we say? Because in the end, it co...

Attention Huns and Hoydens

Our hostess is fine, although bekittened (enkittened? surrounded by and engulfed in kittens): I have begged the blog today for a project we are working on.

We’re putting together a memorial. I’m collecting the names of our departed Huns and Hoydens. Would you please post anyone you know of we have lost in the last three years in the comments of this post? I already have some, but I’m sure I’m missing others. I will be also posting this in the Diners: there is no need to add names to more...

Social Math

Of all the ideas in Heinlein fiction that would be useful, the most impossible isn’t his “sensitives” that can communicate telepathically or otherwise circumvent technology. I mean, those seem impossible, but to be honest, we haven’t really tried for them.

The most impossible, which seemed, I think, back when he wrote them, “just within reach” are things that, though I don’t remember the exact names he used (a sure sign it’s time to re-read) involve making the sciences of psychology and...

Terminal Conditions

One of you recently came up with the idea that we have ten percent parasites, and therefore society can’t endure and “it’s over man.”

Honestly, I don’t know who is promulgating this kind of insanity. I know someone is, because these completely unrooted and frankly crazy ideas show up everywhere at once, and whoever it is a) understands very little of the immense abundance in US society, still, despite everything that’s been done to us. b) is very dogmatic and pulls numbers from ass on the...

HamAss, Hospitals and the MSM by Francis Turner

HamAss, Hospitals and the MSM by Francis Turner

Many of us on the side of civilization have noticed that in the last month and a bit after October 7th that the Mainstream Media has been solidly on the sides of the genocidal Hamass. Among many examples there was the time when much of the MSM credulously repeated Hamass lies about the rocket that blew up in the hospital parking lot. Although it is true that many of them eventually walked that story back, the damage was done because the ...