High contrast: last week it was responsible adults in the room talking about hope, diversity, unity, and hard work. This week: rallying cries for a second Civil War delivered by coked-up nepotistic sycophants to a hateful demented old lech who can barely read from a teleprompter (yet mocks even family members with disabilities). Seriously, Don…
Read More DNC vs RNC conventionsThree years ago I bought a display form from a local boutique that was going out of business. I named it ‘Adelaide‘ after the boutique. Adelaide-the-mannequin had a cracked support post and base, and was permanently pitched backward (she frequently fell over). She also needed various bits of padding to mimic my ridiculously variable girth.…
Read More Say hi again to AdelaideIt’s literary pie fight time! Otherwise known as the Hugo Awards. And lo, in the midst of the Covid19 Plague Year, heat waves, hurricanes, murder hornets, and global political unrest, the speculative fiction community did come together virtually to award (some) of the best creators in the business. They did so in what could have…
Read More Those 2020 Hugo Awards