The last month of a very foul year. And I do not look towards 2017 with anything resembling hope. I think that I have to learn to live without hope for a while. It's sunny again today, the sky an uncomfortable shade of blue. Blue like a razor. Currently, it's 55˚F; we're having an odd little warm spell ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Currently, it's 51˚F here in Providence.

Yesterday, we schlepped boxes to Pawtucket. That was work yesterday. Today, I have to put together Sirenia Digest #130, which I hope to have out to subscribers by sometime tonight.

Last night, we finished up our John Hughes thing with his first and second films, Sixteen Candles (1984) and The ( Read more... )

This is me trying to push the anger away, trying to pretend that I am not, in this moment, blindingly angry with every stupid motherfucker who voted for Trump or who voted third party or who simply refused to vote or who wrote in the name of someone who wasn't even running. Now, add to the long list of things we wouldn't be suffering under Clinton ( Read more... )

The humidity stayed low yesterday, and the day was quite pleasant, though the mercury went as high as 87˚F. Today will be cooler, only about 82˚F ( Read more... )

I wish I had something interesting to say about yesterday. But I didn't write. We went to the storage unit in Pawtucket and I sorted through papers from...well...my whole life, it felt like. looking for stuff that needs to go to Brown. I found my high-school porn stash, Playboy and Hustler from 1979 and 1980. Who the fuck keeps shit like that? I ( Read more... )

The weathermen are saying that it'll be 72˚F on Wednesday. We'll be heading to the shore to wipe the winter off our faces. Right now, it's 44˚F and sunny, which is an improvement over the weekend, at least ( Read more... )

Today is the ninth anniversary of Sophie's death. Time just hemorrhages ( Read more... )

I slept at least eight hours last night and awoke to sun. Which means today is already a vastly better affair than yesterday. Currently, the temperature here in Providence is 79˚F, and they say it feels like 88˚F out there. We'll find out soon, as we have to head to the storage units in Pawtucket ( Read more... )

Yesterday managed to be exceptionally grim, and I suppose I'll blame the weather. Today's an aftershock. But at least it's a little warmer, currently 73˚F. Still cloudy, though ( Read more... )

Yesterday, without warning and in defiance of Accuweather, cold spring skipped actual spring and became summer. Yesterday's high, which was supposed to be 79˚F, was 86˚F. And it looks as if the same thing might happen today. At 12:08 p.m. it's 83˚F (with a heat index of 86˚F ( Read more... )