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"Buy the sky, and sell the sky, and lift your arms up to the sky, and ask the sky..."

greygirlbeast Aug 17, 2019 13:58

The NWS says we'll hit 101˚F today, but currently it's only 96˚F, with the heat index at 95˚F. We are fortunate that today the humidity is very, very low, currently a mere 29%.

No writing today.

The mail brought a package from Centipede Press, copy VIII of Wilum H. Pugmire's posthumous An Ecstasy of Fear. Nothing has made as sad as seeing that ( Read more... )

wilum pugmire, weird fiction, heat, not working, not writing, sorrow, humidity, the wide carnivorous sky, centipede press

"Where's the shadow government when you need it?"

greygirlbeast Mar 27, 2019 19:11

I hardly slept last night, then woke this morning to the news that Wilum H. Pugmire had died. I sat here for an hour, sad and tired and confused, wondering if I was going to lose the day. Then I got Spooky up at eight and got on with the day ( Read more... )

perth, editing, wilum pugmire, flowers, jonathan strahan, the tindalos asset, bad movies, deaths

"Springsteen is the king, don't you think?"

greygirlbeast Nov 16, 2014 12:47

The sky outside my window is lead, and there's snow out towards the Cape, and there's snow down in New York. So says the radar. Here, the sky is pregnant, heavy, and we'll not see the sun today. Day before yesterday, it seems there was snow before we awoke, just a little. I'd hoped this was still a month or so away. What is hope but wishful ( Read more... )

winter, joshi, wilum pugmire, paleontology, dreams, cons, podcasts, "the rest of the wrong thing", "the green abyss", the wide carnivorous sky, lovecraft, plesiosaurs, alabaster

"I am carrying this scrap of paper that can crack the darkest sky wide open."

greygirlbeast Mar 13, 2014 13:40

And, on the thirteenth of March, I awake to snow and a wind-chill of -2˚F. I am utterly exhausted by this goddamn winter. It was 17˚F when I got out of bed about 10:30 a.m. Now it's 18˚F, and the windchill has risen to -3˚F ( Read more... )

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"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."

greygirlbeast Jun 28, 2013 13:55

Another grey overcast June day in Providence. Only 75˚ Outside, 80˚F in the middle parlor. Comfortable enough, but sticky. And I tire of the clouds on day two ( Read more... )

beginnings, wilum pugmire, paleontology, not writing, thai, ambrose bierce, clouds, short fiction, shirley jackson, good days, summer, spooky's bday, peter, deadlines, humidity, mail

One Year, with Mosasaur and Kitten

greygirlbeast Oct 16, 2012 13:35

People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get. ~ Gregory House, M. D.

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One year ago today, "principal photography wrapped" on the book trailer/still-photo project for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. I'll come back to this tomorrow. Or it might have to be Thursday. Or Friday...

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Once again - annoyingly - the Alabaster: ( Read more... )

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"These eyes are the eyes of the old, shivering and bold."

greygirlbeast Dec 26, 2011 14:07

Comment today, kittens. It'll help ( Read more... )

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"The memories of me will seem more like bad dreams. Just a series of blurs like I never occurred."

greygirlbeast Sep 08, 2011 13:30

My morning was going rather shitty (resuming a course begun last night), but then I saw someone refer to Orson Scott Card as a "howling bigoted douchemonkey," and I almost laughed, and now I feel a little better. Also, I've been sleeping like crazy, which is a tad bizarre. Vaults of sleep. Too much wandering in the watery Dreamlands. These days, ( Read more... )

joshi, wilum pugmire, insilico, homophobia, second life, vincent d'onofrio, xtian bigots, parasitism, the drowning girl, rping, michael zulli, bad writing, cems, lovecraft, comedy, neil

"Boom boom, bang bang, lie down, you're dead."

greygirlbeast Jun 08, 2011 14:10

And (whatever the calendar says) today is the first day of summer in Providence. Plus! For a limited time and at no added bonus, a massive solar flare is barreling towards Earth at some 1,400 kilometres per second! Whee! In the house, it's 85F and climbing! Outside, 88F and also climbing. Whee ( Read more... )

typewriters, kyle cassidy, rp, pink floyd, mars, the drowning girl, rift, joshi, wilum pugmire, summer, blood oranges, computer stuff, then vs. now

"The funny thing about Stegosaurus... "

greygirlbeast Oct 16, 2010 13:18

A blustery, cold day today. The sky is that shade of blue. Better I be in here, though I want to be out there. But, tomorrow I will be leaving the House for an autumn foliage excursion to parts north. I only hope that this wind has left a few leaves on the trees ( Read more... )

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