"Future primitive. The ones you left behind."
Mostly cloudy today, after a windy, rainy night. You all know how I dislike the wind, how it sets me on edge. Our high was 69˚F, and it is currently 63˚F.
Here's a deeply unsettling statistic: During the 43 years between 1945 and 1988 an atomic bomb - fusion or fission - was detonated every 9.6 days. So, 38 explosions a year, for a total of 1,634 nuclear detonations. I have not tried to calculate the total energy released by those bombs, as it is a) a much more complex problem and b) I do not really want to know.
What little I managed to do today was divided between mentally stringing together the skeleton of The Night Watchers (I just cannot write stuff like this down, so I hold it in my head) and talking with the Yale Peabody Museum, Mike Polcyn (SMU), and Jun Everhart (McWane) about a mosasaur I'm going to be working on very soon.
And the afternoon's movie was Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018). Only the second time I'd seen it. It's actually a much better film if you approach it as something entirely apart from Jeff VanderMeer's novel, upon which it is sorta based. The pacing is a bit of a mess, and it needed a much stronger screenplay, but there are some profoundly sublime moments of weird.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks. Also, we are down to the last two copies of The Variegated Alphabet of the ten that we were told by Subterranean Press that we could sell. They're in Spooky's Etsy shop. The book is sold out at the publisher.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
12:00 a.m.
Here's a deeply unsettling statistic: During the 43 years between 1945 and 1988 an atomic bomb - fusion or fission - was detonated every 9.6 days. So, 38 explosions a year, for a total of 1,634 nuclear detonations. I have not tried to calculate the total energy released by those bombs, as it is a) a much more complex problem and b) I do not really want to know.
What little I managed to do today was divided between mentally stringing together the skeleton of The Night Watchers (I just cannot write stuff like this down, so I hold it in my head) and talking with the Yale Peabody Museum, Mike Polcyn (SMU), and Jun Everhart (McWane) about a mosasaur I'm going to be working on very soon.
And the afternoon's movie was Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018). Only the second time I'd seen it. It's actually a much better film if you approach it as something entirely apart from Jeff VanderMeer's novel, upon which it is sorta based. The pacing is a bit of a mess, and it needed a much stronger screenplay, but there are some profoundly sublime moments of weird.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks. Also, we are down to the last two copies of The Variegated Alphabet of the ten that we were told by Subterranean Press that we could sell. They're in Spooky's Etsy shop. The book is sold out at the publisher.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
12:00 a.m.