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Writer’s Resolution 2023: Mounting An Aggressive Defense
(If you’d care to read last year’s 2022 resolution — here ’tis.) This year’s resolution is simple on the surface, if difficult to implement: Be vigorous in your defense of your work. Now, already I want to be clear that I don’t mean “defend it against bad reviews” or “against healthy criticism” or “editors” or […]
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The Death And Rebirth Of A Year: What Happened In 2022, What May Happen In 2023
TIME HAS SUCCESSFULLY PASSED, I say, though I don’t find nearly as much evidence of that as I’d like. My wife compared Pandemic Time to defragging your hard drive — the relevant data bits are fewer, and so they get juggled together to free up space, which makes time and memory collapse and crumble in […]
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I Saw The Blue Goat Cat Fish People Sequel Movie, And It Was Definitely A Movie That I Saw
I have a theory as to why people kept going back to see the first Avatar in the theaters, and it has nothing to do with the beautiful CGI world or the powerful 3D effects. It has everything to do with simply trying to remember the thing you just spent a lot of money and […]
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The Bird Site Is Fucked
It is, I think, the sensation of a phantom limb: it itches, the limb that doesn’t exist anymore, and so I want to scratch it even though nothing will ever satisfy or resolve that sensation. It’s like how I sometimes want to call one of my parents even though moments later I am reminded, “That’s […]
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The Non-Comprehensive Non-Exhaustive List Of Cool Stuff I Liked In The Year 2022
If you are at all like me, time means nothing anymore. The pandemic has broken any and all sense of temporal flow I once had. My wife likens it to defragging a hard drive — the pandemic was such an erratic time that our brains defragged, moving all the relevant chunks together and largely ignoring […]
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Melissa Olson Delivers The Terribleminds Gift Guide For 2022
So, as noted in an earlier post, I just didn’t have time to put together a gift guide for 2022, but then friend and author and possible hallucination Melissa F. Olson was like HELL NO YOU AREN’T GETTING AWAY THAT EASY, WENDIG, and I was like, whoa, aggressive, Melissa, also how did you get in […]