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My non-review of “Space Jam: A New Legacy.”

Short version: don’t be absurd. Watch that movie? I have more of a sense of self-worth than that, and so should you. Read my books or check out my Patreon, instead. Or just take your money out back, and burn it in a ditch.

Moe Lane

PS: Judging from the reviews, kids may like it. Which annoys me more, because I’d rather mine not be exposed to A CLOCKWORK ORANGE just quite yet…

#DavesCarIDService Now available on Substack!

I know some of you don’t like Twitter – well, nobody likes Twitter; we just endure it – but if you felt bad that you were missing Iowahawk’s almost preternatural ability to tell you what the car was in that snapshot of your Aunt Mabel, well: he’s got a Substack now. $5 a month, $40 a year; and Lord, but the number of people out there upset that Substack even exists! And they’re all the kind of people you take some pleasure in seeing upset, too. Gives an extra little frisson to the whole affair.

But it’s still mostly about the car IDs.

So I went and did the Substack thing for #DavesCarIDServicehttps://t.co/78WiunTL8X

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 16, 2021

‘Don’t Worry Be Happy.’

Don’t Worry Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin

07/15 Update, July Patreon Pledge Drive (with added linky action!)

My Patreon did not burn down, fall over, then sink into the swamp. After the rest of today, I am counting that as a legitimate win. But I encourage people to join my Patreon anyway. Weekly/monthly fiction and RPG writing, excellent value for a dollar a month. Alternatively, if you don’t want that kind of commitment… buy my books! My illustrated short story “Pickman’s Model: A Romance” is out this week.

https://www.patreon.com/MoeLane Patreon!

The Season 3 Trailer for WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS.

This looks fun. But then, it always does.

Experience the world in Vampire Reality. What We Do in the Shadows returns Sept 2 on FX. Streaming next day #FxonHulu. pic.twitter.com/l4zSzhfn5u

— What We Do In The Shadows (@theshadowsfx) July 14, 2021

07/15/21 Snippet, THE DEFENSE OF WINDERMERE CASTLE.

Different is bad.

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The road was deserted.

It stayed deserted for the quarter-mile the group shadowed it, and stubbornly remained empty when they finally stepped up into the roadbed. This particular stretch had been metcalfed, so it was a slight rise from the drainage ditch up to the top. Not enough to call getting up there a ‘climb,’ but certainly dangerous in a world where the walking dead waited to swarm the clumsy.

But there were no shamblers wandering the gravel-and-stone road. No corpses, either: just a few patient weeds, and a number of weathering bones. Witherby knelt to look at one pile of scattered ribs and femurs.

“Regular victims, not shamblers,” he said. “See here? Human teeth would not make these marks. Not even the rotting ones of a shambler’s mouth.”

“Aye, I see that, Lieutenant,” said Jimmy. “Didn’t expect you’d know the difference right away, I admit. Nicely scouted.”

“Thank you, Mister Jimmy. But we saw a lot of worried corpses on our retreat to the Castle, and even more poor bas— fellows who had taken bites. After a while, you learned what to look for. But I don’t know what animals did these.”

“Crows and rats, I reckon. Although that one over there was set on by a dog or wolf pack.” Jimmy looked grim at the thought. “It’s bad, when they learn to eat human meat. You can’t ever bring a dog back from that.”

SO THE NETWORK IS OUT.

I suspect the people putting up fences all along my row of houses, but can’t prove it! Technician coming tomorrow! Or Saturday! Roll those dice tomorrow!

But that’s OK! We have phones! Today I learned how to USB tether phones to computers! I also learned how to creatively make it clear to my children how there are to be no extraneous downloads until the network’s fixed! Oh, and I also interrupted all of this to get a callback from Xfinity, who wanted me to find out where my cable was! I told the man three times that I didn’t know, didn’t care, and that I was actually in the middle of patching all of this so why not let the nice technician – you know, the one coming Saturday! Or tomorrow! – figure all of that out because I don’t have that training in that particular skill set!

I don’t know how many times he heard that, because the connection was awful! Which is why I didn’t start swearing! But it all works, so it’s all good!

…How was your day?

Good thing I had ten hours’ sleep last night…

…because this morning I’ve been trying to get signed up to a site that would let me determine whether or not the federal government is in the process of screwing up administering the child tax credit that I did not actually request and would rather they not send me. No luck and no timely tech support; as I said on Twitter, ask me if I am surprised. That is a rhetorical question, naturally; for, Dear Reader, you already know that I am not.

I need to do a soft reset.

That’s a pretentious way of saying “I need to go to bed before midnight tonight.” I’ve been irritable and distracted all day, and while I don’t think I’ve bitten anybody’s head off I’m probably not at my best. I’m even half-tempted to start Internet fights over stupid things, and we all know that’s contraindicated for people such as me.

So early bed for me. Or… shoot. Maybe I could have a drink of something. That’s a plan worth further consideration.

Finished up LOKI.

I liked it. Probably my favorite of the Disney+ shows so far, and I enjoyed them all. I was particularly impressed that they managed to surprise me with the ending: they did the one thing I honestly didn’t expect. Well done, folks.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m not going to say what it was, obviously. Spoilers, and all that.