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06/03/21 Snippet, WOLFGIRL KIM AND THE HOA OF DOOM.

I may change the title.

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I awoke the next morning to the wonderful smell of coffee and the slightly less wonderful sound of a pressure hose. A glare at the clock told me it was 8:38 AM: sort of well into morning, but still too early to be making a racket. Which meant I couldn’t sleep in, dammit. Somebody responsible had to go intervene.

My grumbling started as I went down the stairs. Werewolves prefer ranch houses or trailer parks, because we don’t like multiple stories. This place? Five floors, including the basement. And we were sleeping two to a room. This town house would be snug for six humans; for werewolves, it was cramped. It was making us all bristle-furred, even when we weren’t actually sporting any.

But eventually I made it to the (again) too-small kitchen, where Tonya was doing yeoman duty by making a whole pot of that precious, precious coffee. And cooking up some deer steaks, which was extra nice. “Morning, sis,” she said as I was wisely handed a fresh cup. “Aya already said she’s going as quick as she can. The hide needed cleaning, quick.”

“It could have waited until noon,” I muttered around my cup. “Humans might have been still sleeping. I was sleeping.”

So, I’m thinking HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD for my triumphant return to the movie theaters.

I watched THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD, and it was precisely the kind of ridiculous I like to watch, enjoy, and then go on my merry way. Do I want to early access HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD, though? …Maybe. I’ll need to check schedules on that, though.

Tweet of the Day, I Remember Dolly Having Braces! edition.

Obviously, she did not, because there’s plenty of video evidence in MOONRAKER to the contrary. But I’ve never had the Mandela Effect hit me before. It’s kind of neat.

https://t.co/onhsa1NTpz

— Simon Hunt (@Simian01) June 3, 2021

Do you hate Trending Topics on Twitter? Click this link!

More specifically, click this link: Tweak New Twitter. It’s amazing, how much jackwagonry that particular Chrome add-on nukes. And people don’t seem to know about it, so what the heck.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m still on Twitter for the same reason I still put stuff on Facebook, use my old LinkedIn profile, and am trying to suss out how Pinterest works: I don’t have an advertising budget. Bricks without straw, my droogies. Bricks without straw.

Dragon Con 2021 Nominations are open.

I got reminded that they’re open until the middle of July (the link’s here). Before you ask: alas, I do not have an eligible book this time: FROZEN DREAMS was published before the period started, and TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is a collection of short stories, not a novel. But I agree with Declan Finn that the Dragon Awards matter, and you should nominate the books published in the last year that you’ve read and liked.

Also, STORM BETWEEN THE STARS is a rather good book.

Light posting tonight.

I am currently thinking about how to arrange TINSEL RAIN. It is not yet productive, but it will be. But actually writing anything today wasn’t in the cards.

USAF officially interested in SpaceX’s upcoming line of suborbital strategic transport shuttles.

Excuse me: ‘Starships.’

“The Department of the Air Force seeks to leverage the current multi-billion dollar commercial investment to develop the largest rockets ever, and with full reusability to develop and test the capability to leverage a commercial rocket to deliver AF cargo anywhere on the Earth in less than one hour, with a 100-ton capacity,” the document states.

To give you an idea of what that means: that’s about 71% the capacity of a Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy military transport plane… but much, much faster. The USAF isn’t looking for assault shuttles (dammit); but they likely are looking for things that can be converted into emergency transport in, well, an emergency. I suspect SpaceX will be happy to make that easier for them, too. It rarely hurts to have the US military owing you a favor.

Moe Lane

If you are wondering whether there will be any successful pushback on SpaceX’s plans to blanket orbital space with its cheap wireless communications network :looking at the Ars Technica article again: …yeah, I don’t think that’s a high-probability scenario just right now.

Self Tweet of the Day, This Is The Question I Ask Myself Today edition.

So, when people sell books at conventions, what do they transport the books in?

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) June 2, 2021

I got a hundred paperbacks to move*. What’s my loadout for that? – And, yeah, bensdad00 is right: I need a hand truck.

Moe Lane

*If I sell them all, I lock up the money in the car, leave the information for getting the book online and go check out the rest of the convention. I will not sell them all.

In the email: THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD.

THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD is a fantasy Western by Will Neely, a sometime reader of this site. Will wanted me to take a look at it, and this particular genre is of some interest to me (I’ve even written a couple of stories along those lines), so I decided to pick it up. No complaints so far, although I’m only about six percent into the book: it’d be longer, but I have a full day today.

But, by all means, check it out.

‘Once in a Lifetime.’

Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads