"..into that secret place where no one dares to go."

Jan 22, 2024 16:54

Well, warmer today. We broke freezing for the first time since, I think, Friday. Our high was 55. Clouds in the morning, and some sun later on. There is a terrible week of rain ahead of us, though. The end of the cold will bring 3"-6" of rain this week.

One thing or the other.

It looks like it will be sometime next week until I finally see the dentist, and I'm dealing with that. With not eating. I am down to 164.4' (I weighed about 185' right before the pandemic began, close to my ideal weight). I feel gaunt.

Tomorrow morning I am going to do all I can do to start a new story for Sirenia Digest 214, and, also, get back to mosasaur paper 2.0. Honestly, only in the last couple of weeks have I come to understand that I am having so much trouble working because I am simply not getting enough to eat.

Sorry. I'm not whining. I'm not making excuses. I just wanted to get some of this out there.

This afternoon's film was Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014).

A new episode of True Detective: Night Country last night. I finally realized that Tsalal was a references to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), which, by the way, was ptreviously borrowed by Jules Verne for his An Antarctic Mystery (1897). Great use of "Song to the Siren" and Agenes Obel's music, and, oh, and among the links to Season One was one very cool one. But no spoilers, natch.

The great Robert E. Howard was born on this day in 1906.

So, here's a thing, if you buy a copy of Vile Affections from us sometime in the next two weeks, you will get a COLOUR monster doodle, drawn and colored by my own hand, FREE. I have very rarely offered colour monster doodles. So...don't snooze.

Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast



4:18 p.m.

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