Howard Hughes and the Great Reconsideration
Sunny today, but still cool. Our high was 64F.
Today Kathryn had a tooth pulled, the first of two or three she has to have dealt with. It went well and she's recovering. She seems more annoyed than anything. "I'm tired of smelling blood," she said. Anyway, obviously that seriously skewed today.
I drew some monster doodles, answered some email, picked teeth from the Bashi Marl, and worried about Spooky. That was about it.
I do not think I have ever seen something play out the way Season One of The Three Body Problem is playing out. Episode one was much, much better than I expected. Episodes Two and Three were just fucking silly. But! Then episodes Four-Seven looped back to that very effective beginning and, while this is not great TV, once more it was very good. What the fuck? Mostly, I blame the silly videogame puzzle solving thing. Soemone could have thought up a far less obvious, smarter way that the aliens could have tested humans than trendy VR simulations. There are lots of options. Anyway, yes, the second and third episodes seem to have been aberrations. We'll watch the last episode of the season tonight. (See, I can change my mind. It happens more than you might think.)
It terrifies me there are actually people who have no idea what the Red Guard were or what they did. Read a fucking book, people. Or at least that ill-conceived and misbegotten calamity they call Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, check out the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thank you.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:30 p.m.
Today Kathryn had a tooth pulled, the first of two or three she has to have dealt with. It went well and she's recovering. She seems more annoyed than anything. "I'm tired of smelling blood," she said. Anyway, obviously that seriously skewed today.
I drew some monster doodles, answered some email, picked teeth from the Bashi Marl, and worried about Spooky. That was about it.
I do not think I have ever seen something play out the way Season One of The Three Body Problem is playing out. Episode one was much, much better than I expected. Episodes Two and Three were just fucking silly. But! Then episodes Four-Seven looped back to that very effective beginning and, while this is not great TV, once more it was very good. What the fuck? Mostly, I blame the silly videogame puzzle solving thing. Soemone could have thought up a far less obvious, smarter way that the aliens could have tested humans than trendy VR simulations. There are lots of options. Anyway, yes, the second and third episodes seem to have been aberrations. We'll watch the last episode of the season tonight. (See, I can change my mind. It happens more than you might think.)
It terrifies me there are actually people who have no idea what the Red Guard were or what they did. Read a fucking book, people. Or at least that ill-conceived and misbegotten calamity they call Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, check out the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thank you.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:30 p.m.