High Water
A mostly overcast grey day, but by afternoon we started seeing sun. I cannot say how much I needed that sight today. Our high was 61F.
I got up at 6:30 this morning and reworked the sixth interlude for The Night Watchers, a level of revision I rarely do. And now it really is time to get back to the main narrative. I also spent a couple of hours on the Bashi Marl sample. Mollusks aside, some interesting (and very tiny) elasmobranchs (mostly rays) are coming out of it.
Last night, Kathryn and I watched David Fincher's Killer (2023) on Netflix, which I thought was marvelous. This afternoon, I watched three documentaries, one of the Kennedy assasination, one on Apollo 8, and a third on attempts to save Venice from the effects of sea-level rise due to climate change. I also finished "James S.A. Corey's" sixth Expanse book, Babylon's Ashes and began the seventh, Persepolis Rising. I gotta say, even if Babylon's Ashes hadn't been so goddamn dull, I'd have only given it the three stars I did solely on the basis on one of the characters using the loathsome threw them "under the bus" phrase. So why continue? Well, the books are free, and it is hard for me to stop something I have begun.
Once again, reporting this, the holidays/Xmas sale we've got going on at the Dreaming Squid Sundies shop. Please have a look: Kathryn has been hard at work getting more stuff up in the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop, all part of our holday/Xmas sale. Today, she added rare copies of three SubPress titles: Tales of Pain and Wonder (2008; the massively corrected third edition), the original hb of The Dry Salvages (2004), and the really cool original chapbook of "Waycross" (2003). Someone you know and love needs one of these...or buy yourself a gift.
Before I sign off today, if you are unaware of Donald Trump and his followers' Project 2025, please begin to educate yourself. It describes itself as an attempt to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, eliminating the independence of the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. It would also eliminate from government office all employees not loyal to Trump (as he was accused of doing in his first presidency). It would, in effect, make Donald Trump a dictator. There's no other appropriate word. Beisdes the Wikipedia article, there's a piece at Salon ("Project 2025 shows us that the old Right has left the building: GOP's surrender to Trump complete"), and there's, if nothing else, Project 2025's own website. We have ;ess than a year to respond to this, and I'll be writing a lot more about it here.
2:47 p.m.
I got up at 6:30 this morning and reworked the sixth interlude for The Night Watchers, a level of revision I rarely do. And now it really is time to get back to the main narrative. I also spent a couple of hours on the Bashi Marl sample. Mollusks aside, some interesting (and very tiny) elasmobranchs (mostly rays) are coming out of it.
Last night, Kathryn and I watched David Fincher's Killer (2023) on Netflix, which I thought was marvelous. This afternoon, I watched three documentaries, one of the Kennedy assasination, one on Apollo 8, and a third on attempts to save Venice from the effects of sea-level rise due to climate change. I also finished "James S.A. Corey's" sixth Expanse book, Babylon's Ashes and began the seventh, Persepolis Rising. I gotta say, even if Babylon's Ashes hadn't been so goddamn dull, I'd have only given it the three stars I did solely on the basis on one of the characters using the loathsome threw them "under the bus" phrase. So why continue? Well, the books are free, and it is hard for me to stop something I have begun.
Once again, reporting this, the holidays/Xmas sale we've got going on at the Dreaming Squid Sundies shop. Please have a look: Kathryn has been hard at work getting more stuff up in the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop, all part of our holday/Xmas sale. Today, she added rare copies of three SubPress titles: Tales of Pain and Wonder (2008; the massively corrected third edition), the original hb of The Dry Salvages (2004), and the really cool original chapbook of "Waycross" (2003). Someone you know and love needs one of these...or buy yourself a gift.
Before I sign off today, if you are unaware of Donald Trump and his followers' Project 2025, please begin to educate yourself. It describes itself as an attempt to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, eliminating the independence of the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. It would also eliminate from government office all employees not loyal to Trump (as he was accused of doing in his first presidency). It would, in effect, make Donald Trump a dictator. There's no other appropriate word. Beisdes the Wikipedia article, there's a piece at Salon ("Project 2025 shows us that the old Right has left the building: GOP's surrender to Trump complete"), and there's, if nothing else, Project 2025's own website. We have ;ess than a year to respond to this, and I'll be writing a lot more about it here.
2:47 p.m.