Moe Lane's Blog, page 37

‘Cheerleader.’

This band is like an antidote for feeling old.

Cheerleader, Walk Off The Earth

So. Warhammer 40K SPACE MARINE 2 and ROGUE TRADER. On Steam Sale. Worth it?

Thinking about it, although I worry that I don’t have enough computer for either. I am also not at 100%, as my body is feeling cranky over something that I ate. So I don’t want to rush into anything, just for the dopamine rush from buying a shiny.

So. Worth it?

…Or I could just be sick.

I didn’t have anything particularly weird for dinner yesterday – pasta, chicken sausage, and that spaghetti sauce that’s supposed to keep you from indigestion. But I’ve had an unpleasant morning. The kind that makes me wonder whether I’m going out tonight.

‘The Middle.’

The Middle, Jimmy Eat World

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Lightish posting this weekend.

We are actually going to parties and so forth! It’s very strange. Possibly decadent. I haven’t decided yet.

Tweet of the Day, A Reminder That People On The Internet Are Actually Real edition.

Basically, this man objects to being categorized as a mom-slapper. Anybody’s mom-slapper. And he has reason to be. A small but recognizable insult has been launched at this man’s good name.

Admittedly, it probably bounced of his chest, which very may have more sheer muscle mass than I do in total, but the principle stands.

He's cool af pic.twitter.com/MUbmxukrkj

— Wretched Plebiscite (@wretchedplebe) May 22, 2025

Had to adjust prices on my chapbooks.

Not to mention the foreign prices for FROZEN DREAMS. I didn’t want to, but Amazon is adjusting the royalty rates for paperback books under $9.99 from 60% to 50%. As it was, I’m still getting dinged because I only raised all the chapbooks from $6.99 to $7.99. I may have to raise the paperback prices further, and I would rather not.

At the moment, the Kindle prices for my books remain unchanged. So that’s still all right.

05/22/2025 Snippet, TOM VARGAS AND THE CASE OF THE MEDDLING PRIEST.

Investigation!

I bet you’re wondering why I just walked right in, fat, dumb, and happy. Why not let the cops handle it? Preferably an older, grizzled one that was too old for this mierda, and ready to lay out half a dozen street punks with a left hook and a few quips? Look, I told you: they don’t patrol this part of town often enough. If there was something bad going down, would Carlito thank me if I didn’t stick my nose in in time?

Speaking of my nose, it was twitching in a way I didn’t like. Something in there stunk. It wasn’t blood and it wasn’t icemold, but those two aren’t the only bad things you can find on the other side of a hastily-closed door. That was all the excuse to meddle I needed, not that I ever do.

The inside was deserted, and also a mess — and I don’t mean like pawnshops usually are, all stuffed to the gills with knickknacks, mathoms, and the occasional geegaw. Somebody had trashed the shop, either because they were looking for something, or just for the fun of it, It was so bad, I wondered why the cops weren’t here already. Whoever had done this hadn’t been quiet about it.

There was more, though. The stink was even stronger inside, and I didn’t like the way it tasted on my lips. Don’t ask me how it tasted, or smelled, though. You probably don’t have the right kind of nose or tongue, and just then? I wished I didn’t. There’s a term from the Lore: ‘reek of wrongness.’ Bergman’s was full of the reek, and it was scarily fresh and horribly spoiled, all at the same time.

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I will be selling my game at Savage Fest!

Huzzah for me!

BEHOLD! pic.twitter.com/Cr9KBs18Gv

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) May 22, 2025

Despite the name, Savage Fest is an upcoming (June 7th) local community event in much the same vein as the Laurel Main Street and Arbutus Arts festivals, only with hopefully much less in the way of explosions and blood sacrifices and so forth. I’m trying to decide whether to flog these for twenty-five bucks, or thirty. The money works out about the same at the former price, but if they’re moving at thirty online…

(As always, you can get your copy of the Fermi Resolution Worldbook here!)

“Over The Hills and Far Away.”

“Over The Hills and Far Away,” The Music of Sharpe

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