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May 6, 2021
Mini-vacation this weekend…
…the kind where I don’t bring the Chromebook. It will be good for me, I think. Besides, I will have my phone for reading books. But mostly there’s going to be a bit of digital decompression going on.
Anyway, I’ll be around in the morning, at least.
So, I guess they’re not filming a new season of THE MANDALORIAN any time soon.
I almost wrote ‘at all,’ but maybe another six months or a year will be enough time for the heat to die down. GeekTyrant aside, Dave Filoni did not ‘tease’ information on THE MANDALORIAN so much as he evaded giving out any. The Good Morning America segment was remarkably free of information on the subject (ScreenRant provided the relevant transcript):
Oh, that’s a tricky one, you know I don’t like to go into those answers without Jon here, my partner Jon Favreau. It’s exciting, we’re both working on that, we’re working on Boba Fett right now, so there’s a lot of new adventures coming up. I have to be careful, I can’t really say anything specific, but I think the Force will be strong with it. Let’s just say that.
Back in the Before Times I called this ‘Dorwinization:’ which is the ability to carefully and easily speak for some time and not say “one damned thing.” Working is such a broad term, really. When it refers to the Boba Fett show, it means that the show’s about to leave production. When it refers to the Mandalorian third season, it means that production has yet to begin.
But what do I know? They’ll probably start filming next week, just to prove me wrong.
Moe Lane
Much as I would like to believe in native Martian Death Fungus…
…I suspect that if that fungus actually exists there, it’s because it came along for the ride. And that ‘if’ is a big if. I don’t think we’d be able to really tell without sending somebody to actually look, preferably with a full biolab included.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, I’m assuming that the fungus would try to kill us. I don’t trust fungus in the slightest. Not on Earth, and definitely not any hypothetical Martian equivalent. I’ve seen zombie flicks. My kid played The Last of Us. I know how this ends.
05/06/21 Snippet, Rescue from Chateau d’Aléatoire.
More telling where I should have been showing. Tsk, tsk, Moe…
Patreon!Gerard also took the effort to palm a knife when he finally staggered out the door. He flattered himself that it was quite the feat, but it was also wasted on all the stumbledrunks who might have possibly noticed. No matter, Gerard thought. They’ll remember I was there, drunk, and full of drunken cheer over a future ‘advancement’ coming my way. Hardly the sort of person to blame for a reckless act of heroism, no?
The thought made Gerard scowl, and he was unsure why. But that was also helpful, in its way; it added bite to his arrival at his quarters. “Pierre!” he slur-shouted as he pushed open the door. “Where are you, you whip-worthy layabout?”
That got his manservant’s attention. Old Pierre was an unpleasant sort, even if he wasn’t a spy for either Gerard’s enemies or (worse) his cousin. At the best of times Pierre was barely worth keeping around, particularly since the servant knew Gerard wasn’t the type to beat his social inferiors.
But Pierre also knew his master wasn’t the sort to get loudly drunk and profanely drunk, either. He came out of his own room at what, for him, approached a rush. “Is… is all well, milord?”
Tweet of the Day, I’d Buy It In Hardcover edition.
No question, straight up.
Maybe I’ll just quit my entire life as I know it and instead write a cookbook called “longer than you think” and the whole thing will just be honest takes on how long it actually takes to caramelize onions and brown butter.
— chelsea brasted (@cabrasted) May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021
Announcing my new “A Proper Picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model’ Kickstarter!
Sign up here. Basically, this is a very quick-and-dirty art Kickstarter, starting May 12th. The short version is: I’ve revised and expanded my short story ‘Pickman’s Model’ (yes, I have no shame*) and I plan to publish it on Kindle, and so forth. But for that I need art. I’ve called in Ben Fleuter to make a proper picture for it, but he rather reasonably wishes to get paid.
The Kickstarter itself is going to be fairly low – but if we hit the target, the stretch goals will let me buy more art ahead of time, for the next one or two chapbooks I’m working on now. People who back at the $5 level will get a digital copy of ‘Pickman’s Model,’ complete with the art; people who back at the $10 level will get the story, and digital copies of any chapbooks (plus the art, of course) unlocked by the stretch goals. This is absolutely a digital-only Kickstarter, though. Printing physical books gets expensive, very very quickly.
Here’s the link. Hope you’ll sign up to be notified on launch!
Moe Lane
*Technically it’s my first professional fiction sale, only I never got paid. Long story.
SpaceX launches Starship, lands Starship, Starship survives.
SN15th time’s the charm:
Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test → https://t.co/Hs5C53qBxb https://t.co/chZjdVAute
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 5, 2021
Via @IMAO_. I’ve always felt Elon Musk’s operating philosophy draws much from the below. Note, by the way, that I say that respectfully. The philosophy below works:
Happy Cinco de Drinko!
Which I understand is one of the good-naturedly exasperated nicknames that Mexican-Americans often have for Cinco de Mayo. I don’t normally quote Urban Dictionary, but this seems spot-on:
I can sympathize, since my own ethnic minority went through this decades ago. It’s just how groups assimilate in this country: your holiday gets appropriated, and then people start getting [expletive deleted]faced celebrating it. I recommend just leaning into it, because you won’t have a choice anyway…
Tweet of the Day, That Is, Indeed, Not How It Works edition.
Not that I do that particular hobby. But I’ve done other hobbies. And it’s NEVER how it works.
Happy Wednesday! New PA for you:https://t.co/XcXzF0WhoX#pennyarcade #gunpla pic.twitter.com/BjhowgfW9d
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) May 5, 2021
