Rain. Like I said. Rain all night. Rain much of the day. There was some watery sunshine at one point. rain tonight. Rain tomorrow. Flash flood watch again tomorrow night. Rain. Rain in the House of Muddy Grey Walls. Currently, it's 51˚F.

I have pretty much nothing to report about today. Oh, I did finish Jack London's The Sea-Wolf. I kinda like ( Read more... )

The sun is back. The temperature, though, is a chilly 53˚F.

Manhattan is so much warmer than Providence.

I spent yesterday trying to find the vignette I need to write for Sirenia Digest #123, which I know has something to do with mummification and might be set in HPL's Dream Lands (I know I said I wasn't writing anymore Lovecraft stories, but ( Read more... )

I'm not exactly awake. I haven't been sleeping well, between nightmares and waking too frequently. But I think the reading last night took a bit out of me. I have grown unaccustomed to such things. Anyway, it's currently 37˚F here in Providence, but next week we're looking at highs in the 50˚s F. Thank you, El Niño. This is weird weather, but I'm ( Read more... )

A chilly morning. It didn't help that I drew the blinds in my office when I went to bed last night, then shut the door behind me. Out there it's only 66˚F, 43% humidity. Fortunately, all the windows remain shut, so we have a little moisture in the air. In Providence, Spooky and I are seeing the leaves simply turning brown and falling, instead of ( Read more... )

First Thing: The new video from How To Destroy Angels for "Ice Age," directed by John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition). My thanks to Josh Cruz for bringing it to me attention. It is, as Josh said, "A hypnotic, unexpected, lovely thing with a slow building malignancy." Exactly. I think this song is going to become very personal to me; it come be ( Read more... )

Snowy, slushy, cold here in Providence. Presently, 30˚F, with an expected low tonight of 21˚F, so yeah, we're sort of having a heatwave. More snow on the way tonight ( Read more... )

In a somewhat dark place this morning. It's cloudy and cold and windy, the Outside reflecting my internal weather, or, to be more precise (and less egocentric), my mood reflecting the dismal weather Outside my office window ( Read more... )

Cooler and, more importantly, less humid, here in Providence. I actually had to put on a sweater this morning. We had several days of hot, spectacularly humid weather, so this comes as a relief ( Read more... )