When I left Colorado, I was content playing video games and reading books. Being home alone was actually wonderful! These were the things in life which nourished my soul ( Read more... )

In the early nineties I spent a lot of time in libraries. Mostly for shelter. I began reading, became voracious like maribou, and burned my way through early editions of Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies, then classic science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, and a whole bunch of stuff. On 9/27/1999 I began writing ( Read more... )

I have been writing more, but mostly on Twitter and on Slowly. Slowly is an app where people find pen pals across the globe. Rather than a message being instantly delivered, there's a significant time delay between sending and receiving a message. I think I've made a friend in Italy through Slowly ( Read more... )

Longa antaŭe mi memoras kunparoli eksamikon. Mi diris ke mi pensas ke mi nur verkas se mi pensas ke mi verkas pro amiko ol kelka (anonima) spektaro. Se mi pripensas tiun spektaro tiam mi pensos ke la spektaro ne havas ajn amikojn sed homoj kiu ne zorgas pri mi aŭ mia verkado aŭ malamikoj. Se mi verkas por amikoj, la vortoj fluas kaj rakontoj formas ( Read more... )

Via my friend and EIC, PH.

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Truly good UFO researcher Martin Kottmeyer, posting as Mrherr Zaar on Facebook:

WORD OF THE DAY: SELF-DIAGNOSED “SKEPTIC”

One needs to acknowledge a well turned phrase and I freely grant I smiled broadly, with an undertone of grudging admiration, when I yesterday saw our chosen term on The Anomalist website.https ( Read more... )

Our moon is hollow
The Earth is flat
Kubrick filmed Apollo
With actors on a matte
Burma Shave

I should be writing, but I'm not writing ( Read more... )

I am hoping, sometime next week, to hear what kind of month the company had in terms of revenue.

Especially to see if the vice president hands out cash to the billing department, because I'm totally going to use half of that to start my new site.

For those who know Esperanto, it's the English word for maraĵo. The translation isn't even a common ( Read more... )

The turkey at my job has gone missing as of last week. I am concerned for his well being ( Read more... )

Earlier today I found myself thinking about writing. It was after reading "Against Popular Culture".

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

Basically pop culture is cheap and easy, like your ( Read more... )