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Danger Slater Should Have Seen This Coming

Danger Slater should have seen it coming. Ya’ll know Danger, author of Puppet Skin, I Will Rot Without You, DangerRAMA, Love Me, and more. He posted how he was selling books out somewhere the other day with someone (he didn’t say where or with whom) and a lady came up to them and said “Oooh, I like your costumes.”  Then he mentioned that they hadn’t been wearing costumes. He should have foreseen that I’d reply with this:

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After all, he was one of my featured readers at the Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series event I held commemorating (a year late) the 30th anniversary of Once Bitten. Heck, we had a costume contest as part of that where the recipient was supposed to insist that they weren’t wearing a costume. Honestly, I thought he was feeding me a line.

Not sure why he wasn’t expecting it. He should have been.

 

One More

I know I’m supposed to be done with the running thing on animated gifs of The Simpsons. Just one more though.

There. Now I’m done.

This Is Why I Kept Posting These

Remember how I’ve been posting animated gifs from The Simpsons the past few days? This is why:

My essay “‘Your Lifelong Dream’ On ‘Marge vs. the Monorail’ and the enduring timelessness of The Simpsons“is live at The Dot and Line!

You should go check it out.

Yeah, I know, it went live yesterday. I already had a good Simpsons animated gif post lined up and didn’t want to lose it. I figured I’d just do this a day late.

 

Why Do I Keep Posting These?

Why do I keep posting animated gifs from The Simpsons this week? There must be a reason.

This one is one of my favorites.

It’s Coming….

It’s coming….

There’s an animated GIF of The Simpsons for everything.

It Me Today

It me today.

Ow…quit it.

This Is Today

This is today.

Eighteen…nineteen….

Monorail. Monorail! MONORAIL!

Monorail. Monorail! MONORAIL!

Just have this stuck in my head.

 

This Is What All The HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ATTACK!!!!! Articles Have Me Thinking Of

This is what all the HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ATTACK!!!!! articles have me thinking of:

I mean, I’m questioning their advice even before I read them…which I don’t usually bother. Most likely scenario? We’re going to be hosed if the nukes go off regardless. Better hope and prepare for them not to happen instead.

Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter If It’s Spam Or Not

I get probably the usual number of spam emails. I also get probably the usual number of emails from entities that aren’t spam but aren’t contacting me about something I want to hear about. Sometimes it doesn’t matter if it’s spam or not.

For example: I get a number of emails that my financial account has been suspended due to unauthorized log in attempts and I need to “click here” to reactivate. I usually don’t even have to look at the sender to see they aren’t who they claim to be, or to hover over the link to see that it isn’t what they claim it is. I also usually don’t need to be smart enough to know that real financial service companies don’t have you do that and would instead request that you contact them separately. I usually don’t need to do any of this because most commonly I’m sent these “from” financial institutions I’ve never even heard of. Pretty sure I don’t have accounts with them (though yes, when checked the emails are from garbage addresses and the links are garbage links).

However, I’ve recently been getting horrified emails from Dropbox. Apparently I haven’t used my account in a while and they’re going to shut it off if I don’t do something. Oh no!

Yeah, I had to sign up for an account to get pictures from a photographer I was collaborating with on a story years ago. This was the one and only time I’ve ever used Dropbox. I honestly don’t care. They can go ahead and close the account. I don’t need it.

Their email is pretty much like spam even though it’s technically not. It’s functionally equivalent.