Moe Lane's Blog, page 717
May 31, 2021
Have a good Memorial Day.
It’s a nice, sunny day here on the East Coast. Enjoy as you like, and be thankful for the people who made sure you could enjoy it in peace. …If not quite ‘quiet,’ thanks to the cicadas.
May 30, 2021
‘Freedom!’
Yeah, I already used it. But it’s over.
Quote of the Day, Oh F*CK No edition.
And I say this as somebody who uses Amazon to publish my books.
Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network that helps devices like Amazon Echo devices, Ring Security Cams, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers work better at home and beyond the front door. When enabled, Sidewalk can unlock unique benefits for your device, support other Sidewalk devices in your community, and even locate pets or lost items.
Click the link above to see what Amazon products you suddenly don’t want in your house. Although a quick-and-dirty rule of thumb there would be anything with the word ‘Echo’ in the product name.
Willem Dafoe to reprise Green Goblin role?
That’s the rumor. They’re supposedly going to Sinister Six it, which makes sense. Doc Ock and Electro were already announced, complete with the actors who played them in past Spider-Man movies. Never saw THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN movies, so can’t speak to Jamie Foxx; but Alfred Molina was solid as Doc Ock and Dafoe — well, as Weird Al once noted, the dude was even scarier without the mask on. So… I’ll allow it.
I have a Patreon! It’s nifty! There are people who will tell you that!
There has never been a better time to sign up for my Patreon! …Admittedly, that’s still going to be true next month, and the month after that, and so on and so forth. But it remains true now.
Patreon!Patreon Microfiction: ‘Back of Back of Beyond.’
Bismarck once said that if he heard the world was ending tomorrow, he would immediately move to Mecklenburg – because everything there happens fifty years later. “Back of Back of Beyond” has that energy. Some places just don’t react much to current events.
Patreon!
Patreon!May 29, 2021
Early night tonight…
…tomorrow I have to be out the door by 7 AM to make it to the event site by 8 AM. We need to walk the place, figure out where we’re putting everybody. The recent relaxation of gathering restrictions in Maryland means we can triple attendance, and that’s obviously going to affect where the tents and list fields go, and whatnot. After that, my day is free.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m supposed to do something on Monday, I think, but damned if I can remember what it is. Maybe hold the fort while my wife goes for drinks with her sister and cousin. Lord knows she needs some face-time with people, too.
“Liches Get Stitches” is up on Patreon.
Book of the Week: The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Why? Because Shaenon Garrity mentioned Illuminatus! on Twitter [fnord!], and danged if I can think of a better choice. It’s been a weird week. I wonder if it’s all due to the looming ending of the pandemic [fnord!]; I am stretching out, and some of my mental muscles feel stiff and unused…
