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June 25, 2021
I *think* I can still manage another chapbook this year after all.
The Kickstarter over-performed just enough to give me some margin and still be able to have books for the con circuit this fall. God willing and the creek don’t rise, at least. It must be nice to have liquidity – mind you, compared to most self-published authors I apparently do. At least until 2022. I dunno, maybe I’ll have a good enough backlist by then.
Speaking off… feel free to share the love, hey?
06/25/21 Snippet, WE LOVE TO TALK ABOUT THE PLACE.
Alarm!
Patreon!When he hit the ground Andy yelled loud enough to make me jump. It was just a regular kind of yell, at least; an I’m-in-pain yelp. He stood up, squeezing his left hand shut with his right, and his face was almost gray.
“Is it the hand?” I asked, still well away from the fence. “How bad is it?”
“I broke a finger dropping down,” Andy grated out. “Fuck, it hurts.” I didn’t get shocked by that: ‘fuck’ sounded like the sort of thing you’d say when you broke a finger. “Where’s the door?”
My own face must have gotten gray at that. “Door?” I said very quickly as I stepped back one pace. “You meant the gate?”
“Yes! The gate to the fence! Where is it?”
“There isn’t one, Andy.”
You hear something?
…Neither do I. My blessed wife has taken our wonderful children camping this weekend, giving me the opportunity to spend a couple of days in peace and quiet, but mostly quiet. The utter hedonism has already started, of course. Why, I had large fries with my Big Mac for dinner.
More seriously: the plan tomorrow is to return some too-short canoe paddles (this is not a euphemism for anything), catch a movie while I’m out, and maybe go have a beer. Very calm, very peaceful, and not on any kind of schedule. Except for the movie theater’s, but you can’t have everything.
Tweet of the Day, It Needs The Sunglasses Gif edition.
This is excellent. Straight up. via @PelgranePress.
now why am i laughing pic.twitter.com/X2XBQIvmE5
—becky. (@djrtyhands) June 21, 2021
June 24, 2021
‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart.’
I like the melody line.
So, it’s a hernia for sure.
With (very minor) surgery in August. Apparently it’s fallout from my gall bladder surgery, but nobody’s panicking or anything. I am just to avoid heavy lifting for the next month or so and try not to eat anything that will make my bowels explode.
…Is this oversharing? This is probably oversharing. Anyway, that was my day.
06/24/21 Snippet, WE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE PLACE.
Getting there.
Patreon!“Betcha I can get over the fence,” he told me that morning.
“I bet you can,” I replied. “But you don’t want to.”
“Why not?”
“Because we don’t go near the Place.”
“Why? Are you scared of it?”
“Yeah,” I said.
Andy waited for me to say something else, but I didn’t. “Why? Is it a haunted house?”
“Probably,” I said. “Why are you asking? You already know the answers.”
“I don’t!” I started a little, the angry way he said that. “Nobody will tell me about this house.”
That surprised me. “Really? My folks won’t shut up about the Place.”
“Oh? What do they say about it?”
Okay, that was a pretty good question. I remembered slow conversations around the dinner tables, idle talks while burgers and steaks were grilling, the chatter of smokers in the church parking lot after services. Whenever there wasn’t anything else to discuss, the adults would talk about the Place. I imagine it’s like how people in other places talk about the weather. Never saw the point in those, honestly.
The SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS trailer.
Featuring Abomination!
That Abomination looks like the same one from the Ed Norton Hulk (you gotta wonder if Ed regrets not taking that contract). Nice to see somebody remember that particular movie, honestly. I particularly liked how they put the whole damn origin story in the opening credits, because they wanted to save me valuable time. I enjoyed the consideration.
Well, it’s probably not a *bad* time to drop Mailchimp, personally.
I don’t have many people on the newsletter, and the newsletter is very sporadic because I have difficulty coming up with Flying Koala-related things to say every week. I dunno what to use instead, though. Somebody I know seems to be getting good results from their free Substack?
Moe Lane
PS: The reason for considering a switch is due to Things We Do Not Talk About Here; suffice it to say that I’d rather switch now, then have to switch later, and I’ve never quite trusted Mailchimp anyway.
Steven Spielberg refused to remake JAWS.
GeekTyrant noticed this, buried in a story about Amblin Entertainment partnering with Netflix:
One area the director will not revisit is Jaws. Deadline heard recently that Universal broached the subject to reboot Spielberg’s breakout classic, with Spielberg producing, and the answer was a firm no.
…Personally, I might have preferred that Spielberg had responded to such a highly impertinent question by dangling the unlucky Universal suit over a shark tank, but that would have been unethical. After all, you don’t blame the messenger for the message. Life is not a Conan movie. And JAWS should not be remade.
Moe Lane
PS: I don’t actually want to see a Spielberg Conan movie. I want to see a Guy Ritchie Conan movie, set in Conan’s thief days.
