Over on Bluesky, I’ve been participating in a “game” (trend?) of posting—once per day for 20 days—the fictional characters I would invite to a dinner party. I’ve made some rules for myself in this, such as not choosing any of my own original characters and not allowing more than one character from a fictional world (with one key exception). And
It has been pretty popular lately for Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/General Dumpster Haters to crow about his tanking approval ratings. And I am as happy as anyone to see them continue to fall. But I don’t think they’re as important as most people believe (or hope), or at least, not for the reasons some might think. The majority of commentary that I’ve seen
A few weeks ago, I received an unsolicited email from someone offering to make me a Wikipedia page. However, based on his description of why he thought I deserved to have a Wiki, this person seemed to think I was some combination of a chef and humanitarian. In short, he either had the wrong person or was fishing (phishing?), so
Ever since my last post about John Mulaney’s live show, the show has improved. I won’t take direct credit, but I’m glad to see someone took the advice of having fewer callers. BUT. He just mocked and hung up on Dr. Jack Horner, and that’s not okay. And I’m pretty sure Chuck Tingle is on the line right now? HOW
I’m writing again, hopping from project to project, but I think this is finally the one I’m going to focus on. It’s set in AElit (see the tab above for context) and the working title is The Lost God. Below are excerpts I posted on Bluesky for various prompts. They’re not in any particular order in terms of the chronology
Our family loves John Mulaney’s comedy. We quote him regularly, and middle child actually does a pretty solid impersonation. We’ve seen him live. And we got a real kick out of the week-long Everybody’s in L.A. series on Netflix. A lot of people did—so many that Netflix returned to that well and created a weekly live talk show in the
Behaviors are bad all over. They have been for a while, but they seem to be getting worse (or I’m turning into one of those cranky old people with no tolerance for tomfoolery, which is just as likely). Movie cinema owners and operators bemoan that fewer people are going to see movies on the big screen, but they do nothing
We recently passed our “Caliversary,” which is the anniversary of the day we put our family on a plane in Massachusetts, flew across the country, and transplanted ourselves in California. I had lived in Massachusetts for over 12 years (12 years, 7 months, and 4 days to be precise), but I’ve now lived in California longer than that, which got
Leopards are feasting on faces right now. Social media is rife with posts about Trump supporters who have found themselves hoisted by their own petards. Some go so far as to post pleas directly to their clay idol to have him undo the specific harm that they have been caused. “Please hire my wife back!” “Please don’t deport my son-in-law!”
Five years ago, right around this time, the world began to fold in on itself like origami. I’ve seen a lot of people posting their memories about it, so I thought I’d add mine. At the end of February and start of March 2020, my husband and I drove down to Disneyland for a long weekend to enjoy the Food