This week, besides being my birthday week, is also National Banned Books week. It’s a week when we “celebrate” banned books, as a reminder that the rights we hold dear in the United States are easily abridged or outright removed by determined people with agendas. Looking over any of the lists of banned books, you’ll […]
Read MoreWe’ve probably all heard by now about how Mark Zuckerberg, founder and head of Facebook, admitted to a US Congressional committee that Facebook will not fact-check political ads, opening the floodgates for smear campaigns that will stagger the imagination. It is a decision born of greed, and – dare I say it? – evil. Couple […]
Read MoreLast week was not a good week for me. On Tuesday, I slipped and fell down some stairs. Luckily, the stairs were carpeted. However, I wouldn’t have slipped on them had they NOT been carpeted, so it’s kind of a double-edged sword. I have an enormous, horrific-looking bruise now, and it covers nearly all of […]
Read MoreWarning: might contain spoilers. Like many people, I thoroughly enjoyed Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. It was a fantastic journey through mythology and how the ideas humans worshipped grew and changed over centuries and millennia. When the television series of the book was announced, I was thrilled. I looked forward to meeting what the filmmakers and […]
Read MoreI recently came across a post somewhere — sadly, I’ve forgotten where it was and who wrote it — about valuing one’s own work. The context was self-published books, and while I don’t have a vast amount of experience with this, I do have some, and I’d like to share my experiences with you. The […]
Read MoreI had some trouble with my website last week – the kind of trouble that prevented me from accessing my dashboard. Luckily this happened AFTER I’d put up my blog post for the week, and the problem was on the admin end so it was mostly invisible to everyone but me, though many of you […]
Read MoreSaw a Facebook post the other day from an acquaintance in the Steampunk community, about a backhanded compliment he’d received on his looks. I commented to the effect that I thought he was a very handsome man – possibly one of the handsomest men I know. I wasn’t kidding. After posting, I immediately started to […]
Read MoreI recently ordered a few household goods online, and I’m already regretting that decision. First of all, I needed some new compression stockings. The prescription type generally look like crap, so I was in the market for something a little nicer, even if the compression factor wasn’t as strong. I have edema, so my feet […]
Read More*Warning: discussion of health issues and bodily fluids will ensue. You’ve been warned.* So I have a health issue known as Edema. My body swells up with excess fluid. I take a drug daily to help me pee out the excess liquid, but lately it’s not as effective as it once was. After I take […]
Read MoreIN a shocking development, there’s a debate raging on the Internet — I know, right? Anyway, a group of self-entitled fanboys are trying to raise money to REMAKE The Last Jedi. The Star Wars movie that JUST CAME OUT a couple of months ago. Disney apparently did it wrong, according to these folks. The first […]
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