Alexander Danner

I may have been a bit drunk when I posted this, but apart from misspelling "divine," I stand by it.

Anyway, i'm on drink #4 for tonight. I'm on break all next week.

And it shouldn't be controversial to say that every restaraunt that has ever served buffalo wings with motherfucking *ranch* motherfucking dressing instead of the divien gift of blue cheese can ethically be targeted for arson, and I mean burned to the goddamn ground.

Anyone who isn't eating blue cheese every chance they get is wasting their entire fucking life, and that is the hill I will die on.

Julian (age 16): Why live life if you can't talk like a poet from the 1700s?

There used to be a requirement in the law that you had to have a police officer on site to oversee the drawing. Which, you know...no thanks.

That doesn't seem to be in there anymore, so that's something. Still, not something I'd mess around with.

noooo, I will make it work!

Conversation last night:

@librarybrandy.bsky.social : If you decide to have a cocktail party to serve the weird drinks you're making, how could you be sure anyone would even want to try them?

Me: Well...I'd invite @icarusfloats.bsky.social.

Thank you!

I've successfully made a tasty cocktail out of my lapsang souchong tea infused-vodka.

I've successfully made a tastey cocktail out of my black trumpet mushroom infused-vodka.

The brown mustard seed-infused vodka is proving a greater challenge. But by god, I will make this happen!

Have you played T.I.M.E. Stories? There are definite elements of this. (Though also some elements of stopping the Evil Leaper from changing things for the worse.)

Things I have infused vodka with this week:

Lapsang souchong
Black trumpet mushrooms
Mustard seed and coriander

Ha ha, that's great!

Yesterday I tried to describe something as "navel-gazey," but instead said "nasal-gazey," and now I am offering that phrase to you, dear world. Please make it happen. Feel free to shape its meaning as you like, so long as it takes flight into our language.

Whelp, tacking that bullet point onto the end of my lecture on how our identities shape and influence our writing for my intro fiction writing workshop...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

ICE is in Maine right now because Trump and his lackeys are racist, and are particularly hateful towards Somali Americans. They've given their mission a cutesy name that I won't type here; you can look it up if you want to feel sick.

OMG my nemesis

Different Stranger Things comics from Dark Horse

If you're not ready for Stranger Things to be over, might I suggest the comics that myself and other creators have been writing since Season 2? I've had a blast telling stories with both familiar characters and new, and happy to have contributed my small part to Hawkins and the Upside Down.

OMG, the chutzpah of rejecting Bowie's music for the soundtrack!

Part of the brilliance of Labyrinth is it really took to heart the fact that the best song in any musical is the villain song, so they just went all in and made every song a villain song.

Followed the instructions on this thread and it was super easy and quick! I had to leave the window open after hitting submit for it to process, but they sent a confirmation email when it submitted.

The moderate position here is that every single ICE agent should be tried and put in prison for their many crimes. That's the baseline

ICE IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

That way where I am guides my instincts about what I should be doing.

I assign different kinds of work different physical locations. Sound design work happens on my desktop computer in my office. Writing is done on my laptop on the left end of my couch. Administrative stuff in the recliner on the right side of the couch. Grading student work in the bedroom.

He humored me by picking out an umbrella.

So I got him the umbrella. And a nice marble track. Because goddammit, I wanted to buy a toy!

My son has never particularly wanted material things, and never got much into toys. When he was little, I took him to a toy store just to let him pick out a treat for himself. He looked around the whole store and declared "there's nothing I want." "But i want to buy you a present! Let's look again!"

Anyway, I got three new Transformers for Christmas this year.

When I was 14, 16, 18 years-old and still buying Transformers, and people would imply that I should be less childish, my response even then was there's nothing more childish than actively trying to be perceived as an adult. Actual adults just do what they want. And I wanted Transformers.