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April 8, 2022
It’s Spring Break!
Dear Lord, but this last week. Eldest has first year in high school, youngest starting the preparation period that will result in him being in in-person school next year, and then there’s me. I am not a natural teacher and/or teacher’s aide, to put it mildly.
But we have a week off, and that’s gonna be real nice. Movies, visits from relatives, and hopefully a chance to concentrate on stuff I’m writing instead of synonym lists and essay proofreading. I can hardly wait.
April 7, 2022
DUST Short Film: PARALLEL MAN.
I’m assuming that PARALLEL MAN is a pitch for an animated show, and I’m down for that. I’d like to watch a show about universe-hopping revolutionaries. It sounds like it would be neat.
04/07/2022 Snippet, MOUTHY.
I like this title better.
Patreon!The damned Plague. The damned Plague.
When there were more of us — the ones who understand what’s really happening — we’d try to figure out just what went wrong. And that wasn’t easy to do! It’s ironic: the same rules we had to use to keep the Plague away wouldn’t let us get together to fight the real danger. I bet the mouthies laugh like sharks about that.
By the time enough people figured out what was happening, it was too late. The mouthies were here, burrowing in and biding their time. And you couldn’t tell one by looking, back then. They kept their faces covered, just like everybody else. The Plague wasn’t safe for them, either, just like it wasn’t for us.
Except it wasn’t the same, was it?
OPERATION MINCEMEAT landed at Netflix after all.
Originally, OPERATION MINCEMEAT was supposed to go to cinemas in January: now it’s going to be on Netflix in May. Honestly, that might make more sense. The film’s about how the Brits conned the Nazis about the Sicily invasion, using a corpse and sea currents; it’s a great story, but maybe not an action-packed one. Putting it on streaming could be good for getting a wider audience.
Trailer below for those who forgot about it.
04/07/22 Snippet, THE THING IN THE AIRLOCK.
Back in the saddle again.
Patreon!After a moment of silence, Tobias sighed. “I’m afraid you’re going to start from the beginning on this one, Mrs. Miller.”
“And if I don’t want to?”
Tobias shrugged. “Do I need to insult your intelligence by spelling it out?”
That at least redirected the scowl in his direction. “No, Commander, you don’t. You’re in charge, you don’t have a boss anymore, and you could throw me out an airlock for any reason. Or no reason at all. Tell me: what’s that kind of power like?”
“Highly annoying,” Tobias replied promptly. “It gets in the way of me doing my job. Which right now includes figuring out who killed Shirley Oates.”
“Well,” Miller snapped out, “It wasn’t me.”
“Fine. It wasn’t you. Who do you want to blame for it?” Tobias chuckled at her look of surprise. “You knew her, I didn’t. Even if you lie to me, I’ll still know more after talking to you than when I started.”
I find the TRUST NO ONE Netflix trailer curiously intriguing.
Mostly because I think that the stakes are incredibly personally low.
Did a cryptocurrency CEO fake his own death to steal $250 million?
— Netflix (@netflix) March 9, 2022
Trust No One: The Hunt For the Crypto King premieres March 30 pic.twitter.com/1BBtDH3mhu
I mean, what’s it to me if he did? Aside from the hit to Western society whenever anybody allegedly embezzles money at this level, of course. On the other hand, Western culture is improved by tales of a really good, and somewhat deranged, scam at this level, too. If TRUST NO ONE: THE HUNT FOR THE CRYPTO KING is a good enough documentary, does that offset the heinousness of the original crime? I am undecided on the answer.
Via @iowahawk.
Moe Lane
PS: Yeah, the dude’s probably dead for-real, if only because of Occam’s Razor (and the fact that successful scams of that magnitude never work out right). So stipulated. I still have no particular skin in this game, which is allowing me a certain detachment about the story.
April 6, 2022
Day called on account of day.
Personal stuff that is not actually relevant to anything except that I am now watching the second episode of MOON KNIGHT and trying to untangle. It’s a remarkably good show so far. If this keeps up, it’s going to be the best Marvel series they’ve done. Yes, possibly even better than LOKI.
So lemme go back to that.
April 5, 2022
‘To Leave Something Behind.’
Spring Break will be nice, yes.
Today was Unsexy Publishing Stuff Day!
Mostly spent getting my barony’s newsletter in final shape, emailing people about stuff involving the book, and general fiddling with stuff. But at least everything I had to do today, got done. That’s not nothing.
Hopefully the coming days will be more conventionally creative, though.
