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Imaginary

Writing is a sort of madness. Undoubtedly. Or at least it is as I’ve experienced it and as a lot of my mentees, friends and associates practice it.

There is danger in dreams. Every human myth records that. The danger of the dream, like a deep ocean. You can get sucked into the dream and never find your way out. You can confuse your dreams for reality. You can suck others into your dreams too.

The Victorians weren’t entirely wrong that fiction is dangerous. Yes, yes, I know. It’s fashi...

Dangerous

Son of Silvercon was full of interesting talk and cross-conversations, and conversations that mutated and changed and became now serious, now funny. — Talk was ongoing, wherever people from the con gathered. In fact because I often forgot the numbers of the rooms we were supposed to be in, I just followed the constant, babbling brook of voices — Funny things happened, like when I mentioned that every few years my blood pressure plumets and I end up in the hospital. This happens to my dad t...

Tired And Kittens

I know I promised to be fully on today, but my house is covered in cat litter, and everything smells bad and needs cleaning.

I’m going to post kitten pics, and let you ooh and ahhh. I’ll write a post tomorrow, promise.

Fifth Week and they’re now lapping kitten milk, which is good, as it supplements mommy’s milk. Next up, eating.Little orange boy and white girl, who SEEMS polydactyl. Um….

This one is tiny little Circe, my future little girl.This little boy will go to a frien...

Patience by the Balloonatic

Patience by the Balloonatic

My sister-in-law used to tell us about how she struggled after her first son was born. She was having trouble keeping up with everything, and so she began to pray for patience. When her son was 14 months old she gave birth to twins. The moral of the story is that when your pray for patience, God sends you something to teach you patience.

As a “crafty” person, who likes to work on things like cross-stitch or home-made blankets, and major home renovations, I o...

Why Sarah Disappeared

It occurs to me I up and disappeared without much warning, here or my serializing substack, or my newsletter, or Patreon, or instapundit or– well ANYWHERE.

I was at a convention in Las Vegas NV. Since there were noises being made about masks on planes, and I’m all out of patience, we drove. In fact, we’re still on the road, and will be till the wee hours of Wednesday.

The convention? Son of Silvercon. It was an inaugural convention, and things went wrong. Don’t they always? But despi...

I stole her!

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Neener neener I got our hostess! Also her husband!

Ok, actually they tried to steal my son, but he has college classes. But still. (I think they’d give him back after he ate them out of house and home.)

Son of Silvercon is a lovely, friendly little convention, and you all should consider booking yourselves into it next July.

we’re Gonna Meme You Till Tomorrow

Yeah still Behind…

Someone who shall remain husband has turned this into “the man who traveled in elephants” type of trip. Turns out stopping to see the world’s largest ball of twine and such slows a trip down to a crawl.

I will try to post tomorrow, but if I fail…

Look, I’m hoping this is Arab braggadocio. However those of you in large, soft-target type of places, and those of you obviously identifiable as Jewish, kindly watch your six tomorrow, please. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/10/11/a-worl...

No Post Today Or not Until Late

Yesterday was a very weird day, complicated by not sleeping more than about 2h the night before. So I was doing the strangest things. Today I need to get some stuff done. But if I can I’ll write a post this afternoon.

Misunderstandings By David Bock

Misunderstandings By David Bock

One of the challenges when dealing with people who are unfamiliar with firearms is that many of their impressions have been formed in the media sphere.  Whether through books, movies, television, video games, or the nightly news, an often erroneous understanding of firearms exists. 

Take the fun Bruce Willis movie “Last Man Standing” for example. In one scene his character sends an opponent flying through a plate glass window and rolling across the street...