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December 20, 2020
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Okay, So It Was ALSO A Pickup Line.’
Would ‘Okay, So It Was ALSO A Pickup Line’ work in real life? …No? Look, sorry, I was never exactly what you’d call good at picking up girls. My wife almost had to hit me in the head with a club before I realized that she was interested in me. So I wouldn’t use this site as a font of dating wisdom, sorry.
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December 19, 2020
Moderna [vaccine] approved by FDA.
Second one out, and already starting to be distributed:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States.
The FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the coronavirus vaccine produced by Moderna for ages 18 years of age or older.
The Moderna vaccine can be safely refrigerated (the Pfizer vaccine needs a very cold freezer), which will be handy. It does have slightly worse side effects in some people than the Pfizer vaccine does, although not particularly severe ones. Everybody involved should be congratulated for their yeoman work. Well done!
Book of the Week: REVISIONARY.
REVISIONARY! By, well, me. With a horror-themed illustration for each story, too! I have some pardonable pride about how this came out. Whether it’s justifiable pride… ehh. I dunno?
December 18, 2020
Season 2 of THE MANDALORIAN officially Does Not Suck.
Count no season good until the last closing credit fades from the screen. But, yeah, THE MANDALORIAN was …Dude. Also, don’t turn it off until the closing credits are over. There’s an Easter Egg you’ll spot, if you’re sharp-eyed enough.
My REVISIONARY Cthulhu Mythos chapbook is now available in print!
REVISIONARY, in all its Cthulhuoid beauty! Huzzah!
…Although personally I’d suggest pre-ordering it on Backerkit. It’ll be signed, and there’s a discount.
Tweet of the Day, Just Use The Dang Sauce edition.
Chick-fil-A's Polynesian sauce spontaneously explodes, customers claim https://t.co/LOJchYVoVE pic.twitter.com/9BI3XFNnZT
— New York Post (@nypost) December 18, 2020
TLDR: the sauce explodes when you leave the packets out for too long. Like, months. The solution should be obvious.
In the e-mail: Texas Otherworld.
In case it isn’t obvious, I’ve been trying to read more indy writers lately. Seems prudent, right, since I am one? Anyway, Texas Otherworld bills itself as ‘Urban Fantasies in Slavic Texas,’ which at the very least piques my interest. Worth a look, certainly: I’ll try to let people know what I think of it.
December 17, 2020
Quote of the Day, JUSTICE LEAGUE 2: This Time, It’s Personal edition.
Zack Snyder didn’t say this today – today he just announced a March 2021 release of JUSTICE LEAGUE – but I hadn’t realized he had said this earlier.
When previously asked about if he would incorporate some of Whedon’s footage, the filmmaker said: “Would set [Justice League] on fire before I use a single frame I did not photograph.”
…I am starting to wonder if there may be some bad blood here.
The print version of REVISIONARY is off for review.
I’ve been letting REVISIONARY hang over my head for about a week longer than I should have. The problem was that checking a proof copy for errors is simultaneously tiresome, frustrating, and futile. It must be done; you will catch errors that have managed to elude you thus far; and you cannot hope to catch all the other errors that have managed to elude you thus far. There’s a joke in this business that the best way to instantly find mistakes is to push ‘Send,’ only nobody’s laughing. Or at least they’re not laughing with humor.
Next up: second pass-through on the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION story edits. That link offers a discount on signed copies of REVISIONARY and ANAGNORISIS, by the way. Just saying.
The JIU JITSU Nick Cage trailer.
…The title says it all, doesn’t it?
This particular… whatever it is… was either highly fortunate or deeply unfortunate to be released in 2020; which means that it is impossible to judge JIU JITSU by its box office, download status, critical review, or indeed anything except actually watching the damn thing. I mean, sure, it looks like it’d be a sloppy mess; but how can we be sure? All those criteria were created in a past age. A lost age.
And this is a time of wolves now.
