On this day in 2011, I posted an absolutely idiotic idea for a spoof of ParaRom, which went on to become the Quinn novels and come damn near to destroying my life. Three years after completing the last Quinn book, I still have not recovered from that fiasco ( Read more... )

A little warmer today, and it's overcast. We have days of clouds and rain ahead of us. Currently, it's 41˚F in Providence, but the windchill is 32˚F. In Birmingham, it's 63˚F, with a forecast high of 76˚F ( Read more... )

A dusting of snow last night. It was pretty enough. Today, it's mostly melted away, and there's rain. Currently, it's 36˚F. Last night, our shitty new LED streetlights robbed us of the warm orange glow I associate with snow in the city. Back in 1997, in "The Last Child of Lir," I think I called it "baby aspirin light."

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A sunny day, Halloween the Sixth. Currently, it's 62˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and it's currently 60˚F. The tree outside my window is still green.

I have another art preview from Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales. This one is Richard Kirk's illustration for the collection's title story, "Houses Under the Sea," the altar to Mother Hydra:


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And today it's winter again. Currently 60˚F, our high today was a good fifteen degrees colder than yesterday's. Days like yesterday I can try to lie, tell myself I don't loathe New England. Days like today, it's simply not an option.

Later,
Aunt Beast

Sunny today, but it's only 51˚F out there. Cold spring is alive and well ( Read more... )

Snow all yesterday and then a weird ice fall last night. Not like the ice storms in the South. And not sleet. Ice falling. Today, the sky is grey-white sludge. Tonight the snow returns. Currently, the temperature is 36˚F. Something strange happened last night; the temperature rose above freezing after dark. That always seems to strange to me ( Read more... )

"[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ~ Charles Darwin ( Read more... )

I just wrote an entry and...somehow...I erased it. So...really, I should give up and go to bed. It was eloquent. It was well composed. This will be shit. Unless I just go to bed, in which case, it will be nothing. Fuck you, LJ. Fuck you, computer. Why the text didn't autosave, I have no idea. It's autosaving now ( Read more... )