I don't know about you all, but I have had the hardest time concentrating for the last few months. Funny, that. ;-)

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In case you need some distraction, I cannot recommend strongly enough
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I need to focus on gratitude, I suspect. Because otherwise my head will explode with rage and frustration and grief. So I will take a clue from some of y'all ( Read more... )

I remember this kind of weather: buy snow tires, people!

I just saw this today on Twitter, and it looks awesome: a faux history podcast! -- LOVE IT. Something else to get me through 2017 with my sanity intact, I hope.

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Go go Governor Moonbeam! (I.e.: Jerry Brown telling the tangerine demagogue what for.)

A necessary follow-on: Can California ( Read more... )

I realized I haven't posted much lately. Hard to be encouraging when Voldemort seems so intent on just burning everything down.

Sigh.

Anyway, I went on vacation last week: had some great meals, saw some friends & family, and saw the Chicago production of Hamilton! Which was awesome. Just, really full of energy and its own slightly-varying ( Read more... )

Current reading: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, for book club. Just started it, so no thoughts yet. Also listening to The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis on audiobook, although I am beginning to think Willis isn't a good choice for that format; the endless digressions and communication mishaps come across as far more annoying when you can't skim ( Read more... )

Just Finished: Erm. I put down a couple of books recently (Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson and Too Like the Lightning by Amanda Palmer; neither of them were doing it for me), but I did read, and enjoy, Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown. I enjoyed the heck out of the world-building and the food porn, and will certainly be reading ( Read more... )

Some nights you just really have to make macaroni and cheese from scratch. NOM. (At least I cut the recipe in half, and I added sauteed onions in vermouth.)

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Sonofabitch, I'm going to miss this President.

Nice essay here on Why English is so weird.

The NY Times on climbing monster Alex Honnold. At one level, free-soloing can be seen as the ( Read more... )

It's still Wednesday here, anyway.

Just finished: Harry Connolly's A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark. It was... okay, I guess? Marley Jacobs (seriously) is an elderly woman with unusual talents and a lot of money, both of which she uses to manage the supernatural goings-on in the Seattle area. When her nephew dies in unusual circumstances, ( Read more... )

I was on vacation in the mountains last week, in a place that not only didn't have wifi, it pretty much didn't have cell reception! It was great. But as a result I have more than 2 weeks worth of links piled up...

And because it's 10:30 on Friday night and I have had too much whiskey, I'm not going to sort these. Randomly, then:

Well, there's a ( Read more... )

I'm astonished and saddened about the referendum results in the UK, especially since it appears that many people didn't actually know what they were voting for? I can't even. All my sympathies to folks currently living and working in Britain.

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Dave Eggars has a fairly damning report on a Trump rally in Sacramento. Damning for what it says ( Read more... )