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August 11, 2021
The ‘How long will Moe last before he scrounges up another $260?’ DELTA GREEN: THE CONSPIRACY Kickstarter.
Funny story: yesterday, while I was getting prepped for surgery, the anesthesiologist told me that I should avoid driving, operating heavy machinery, and impulse buys. My wife, who knows me very, very well, said, That means no Kickstarters, hon. I laughed and agreed.
GUESS WHAT DROPPED YESTERDAY?
So I wake up, check my mail, then carefully go down multiple flights of stairs until I find my wife. She looks at me, visibly wondering why I’m downstairs when I should be in bed, and I go, Hey, remember when we agreed no Kickstarters? Well, DELTA GREEN: THE CONSPIRACY just dropped… and then she interrupted me to say, Well obviously that’s different. Of course you’re going to get that; it’s one of your favorite games.
Which I have, at the $40 level. Sure, I want the $300 level, but discretionary income is getting a little tight these days. If it’s a choice between this and getting out another chapbook, obviously I have to get another chapbook out. I need to have that stuff available.
Moe Lane
Oh, I am *salty* today. (Buy my books!)
A combination of the aches, soreness, and painkillers, I suspect. It would probably be best if I automatically not publish anything more controversial than “I like turtles.” Maybe it’d be more hilarious, but it wouldn’t be best.
Oh, and buy my books. I am totally ready to cheaply milk sympathy at my ouch-ridden state for sales. Always Be Closing…
August 10, 2021
Still alive!
Which is to be expected – it was a straightforward surgery – but you never know. Typing this on my phone, though. Gonna be taking it easy today.
In the Mail: DELTA GREEN: IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES.
DELTA GREEN: IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES is the King in Yellow supplement*, and I am sure it will be the perfect book to leaf through during my post-surgical recovery. …Okay, so that is how a cosmic horror story starts. But this is real life.
…Dammit, still doing it.
Moe Lane
*And thank God for Kickstarters, because these books are gonna be expensive.
August 9, 2021
Didn’t write anything new today…
…and I can’t imagine why. On the other hand, I mostly caught up on edits of the new book. I didn’t need as much concentration to do that.
I’ll be glad when I’m on the other side of this procedure.
Tweet of the Day, My Personal Favorite Penny Arcade Strip’s Anniversary! edition.
I dunno if it’s their best, but I love this Penny Arcade strip above all others. The aesthetic here sings to me.
"I Hope You Like Text" is 15 years old! #pennyarcadehttps://t.co/A323ZpAzZR pic.twitter.com/oG6EEc5CJC
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) August 9, 2021
The Gloriously Stupid And Hysterical BIG FREAKING RAT Trailer.
I’m not telling you to see this movie. BIG FREAKING RAT is undoubtedly going to be, to quote GeekTyrant, “so freakin’ stupid.” But the trailer is worth your time.
Not least because the filmmakers understand what you want to see. You want to see the BFR, in all of its cheesy glory. And gory. Lots and lots of gory. And they deliver. …Although I’ll be damned if I know where you can find the movie (it definitely isn’t on Amazon: not even the ‘you might as well stick it there’ parts). Then again: that’s probably for the best.
August 8, 2021
Going to be a weird week.
Well, not weird; just kind of wearying. I’m going in for my hernia on Tuesday, which means that pretty much everything from Tuesday morning to probably Thursday just isn’t happening, and I’ll be a half-step behind for the rest of the week. It’s not a hospital stay sort of situation, thank God, but neither is gonna be fun. But they will fix the hernia, which is nice. Hopefully it’ll stay fixed, too, because it’s where they did the surgery for the gallbladder.
Am I worried about it? Ehh, maybe slightly. There’s always the chance for a complication. But even in the worst-case scenario I should be fine. In my fifties*, but fine.
Moe Lane
*Alas, there’s no procedure that can fix that.
A new installment of my (free) Pulp SF serial THE BOLD MARAUDER is up!
New Patron, new installment. If we get to $200/month, there’ll be a new installment every week!
Patreon!
