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March 3, 2022
Day Ten of the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter!
We’re just under $1,600, which is excellent news. But, you know, filthy lucre and all that. Also, I want the audiobook. So back the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter today!
Tweet of the Day, This Is @Elonmusk’s Broomstick edition.
I mean, seriously. This threat would be a lot more interesting if we didn’t happen to have private orbital capacity at the moment. As it is… heck, Space Force was already phasing out Russian engines. We’re gonna be good to go, thanks.
The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency Dmitry Rogozin says American astronauts will have to "fly on their broomsticks" after Russia stopped delivering its rocket engines in response to Western sanctions pic.twitter.com/SBiHN8mhMP
— Francis Scarr (@francska1) March 3, 2022
March 2, 2022
I didn’t feel well, today.
Something I ate, I think. I suspect it was too much grease, which is simultaneously hideous and wonderful news. Hideous, because grease is awesome; and wonderful, because grease is a great way to gain weight.
Anyway, slept a bit and now I feel better. Well, except for worrying about the Kickstarter, the kids’ schooling, and the general geopolitical situation going on out there right now. Been tacking on more prayers for wisdom and good judgement lately.
Everybody, stay safe.
Trying the Kindle Vella ‘thing:’ THE STARS ARE WRONG.
I dunno if this is going to work, but it’s worth an experiment, at least. THE STARS ARE WRONG is a novella (also, last month’s Patreon short story*) in a Cthulhu Mythos style… with a twist! And also provided in serial form. It’s functionally equivalent to the aforementioned Patreon offering, so if you’re a Patron there’s no need to check it out. Mostly I just want to see what happens.
Moe Lane
*Interestingly, Kindle Vella does not care about reprints. More or less: you can’t put up anything that you don’t have the rights to, or anything that’s available for free. But apparently being behind a paywall is fine.
The ‘Damn, I missed summer movies’ BULLET TRAIN trailer.
BULLET TRAIN looks like nice, uncomplicated fun. Just as long as you don’t actually tug on any of the plot threads. But why would you do that? Such a thing is anathema to the summer movie experience.
Brad Pitt is back and kicking butt in the trailer for Sony’s upcoming #BulletTrain pic.twitter.com/XsZzl81aab
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 2, 2022
Quote of the Day, I Have A Sherman Tank So Your Argument Is Invalid edition.
This is old, but good. Short version: man buys tank. Man parks tank outside of his house while he works out final home for the tank. The bug up the a*s of the man’s HOA decides this is intolerable, starts up the passive aggressive machine, and sends a certified letter. Result?
In the spirit of General Patton, Buzbee was unmoved by this opening salvo. “Typical,” he says. “It sounds like small-town stuff, but this was Houston, Texas. But I didn’t fret over it. Hell, I would have moved it two weeks before I did but for the fact I got that letter. So then I decided I’d leave the tank here for two more weeks just to see what they would do about it.”
What they did about it was start writing parking tickets, which is funny. I mean, generally speaking you can assume that anybody rich enough to buy a tank is rich enough to just pay the parking tickets. Besides, he was moving it anyway to a nice ranch, where it can peacefully frolic and run over cars…
Via @KPlorable.
March 1, 2022
The TORG Bundles of Holding.
TORG Eternity Essentials and TORG Eternity Cosms. I have most of the former from the original Kickstarter; am considering grabbing the latter. The major thing stopping me is that I haven’t got time to play it – but since when has that ever stopped a gamer?
Man, at this rate I better hope there’s a gaming room in Heaven.
The Surprise! Brandon Sanderson *Really* Doesn’t Need My Help to Advertise His Four Secret Novels Kickstarter.
I mean… wow. Thirteen million on a one million dollar pledge goal. In the first day. That is, like, massively cool.
Congratulations, Brandon Sanderson. It’s fun to see this going on. Not as much fun as seeing it going on for you, I imagine, but still fun to see.
Annnnd TINSEL RAIN is off to the editor!
Given how well the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter is going, I’m comfortable with starting the process. I will have to hold off on getting the map updated and a book cover designed, but those are both relatively straightforward jobs. I’ll need the text edited before I can get the cover done anyway, because of page count issues.
It was a slow day, mostly because it’s the first day of the month. I’m always slow to get back into the swing of things on the first. I always feel slow, and vaguely listless. Possibly I need to manage my time better?
