This week I tore through Christina Dalcher’s novel Vox which was kinda terrifying in a “Handmaid” kinda way but with much less rape. In this, the US has elected an unqualified dickhead with a penchant…
Date Archives August 2018
Day 37 of 200: Hello From the Other Side
Of credit card debt that is. After many many many, too many to admit, years of carrying around a ridiculous (to me) amount of credit card debit, I have paid it off. The refrigerator I…
Day 36 of 200: One Small, Sweet Joy of Freelancing
With a decade of freelancing under my belt, I am qualified to give all kinds of unsolicited advice. Like, never wear real clothes if you don’t wanna. Lots of blog posts are all “get dressed…
Day 35 of 200: Little Debbie Snacks, The Definitive Ranking
1. Fall Party Cakes Back in the good old days these were just known as Snack Cakes and you get get them all the time and life was grand. Sometimes you can get these bad…
Day 34 of 200: Why Sloppy Joes Can Rot in Hell
My friends Hotrod & Daby tease me about my virulent dislike of universally beloved foodstuffs like, say, pie. I hate pie. All of the pies. Today a friend was bragging about how much his five-year-old…
Day 33 of 200: Nothing to Write About is Making Me Cranky
It’s 33 days into this blogging exercise, this warm-up to making my way back to writing fiction for the first time in two years, and boy do I not want to do this. At all….