This still beats the time that I arrived insanely early at the train station but didn’t get in the right boarding queue, so even after waiting around for ages I ended up getting one of the last free seats on the train.
Figured it would be better to arrive at the station early for my train than too late, but yeesh, I managed to arrive WAY early. Budgeted for delays in my ride arriving, traffic, etc, and made it from my front door to the station in a matter of minutes.
4 all the way, I've been exclusively using Uniball Vision Elite pens for making longhand notes and outlines my entire writing career, for well over twenty years at this point.
Starfleet Academy drop nite! Ep109, “300th Night” is directed by a... *checks notes* Jonathan Frakes? Story by Kirsten Beyer & Kenneth Lin. Can’t believe it’s the penultimate ep. It’s been a long road, getting something something, but hopefully you’ve enjoyed it as much as we’ve enjoyed sharing it.
This will be my first time attending ECCC and *not* tabling since, 2012? 2013? It's been a WHILE, either way. Looking forward to spending aimless hours roaming Artist Alley gabbing with friends without feeling guilty that I'm not at a booth of my own that I should be manning.
I'm heading up to Seattle tomorrow for ECCC, and even though I'm not tabling and have absolutely no responsibilities while there, I'm still starting to feel the usual anxiety that I always get while gearing up for a con. Like, I just need to get to the train on time tomorrow, brain, relax already.
My paternal grandfather was a dentist, as was my dad, my great-uncle, and my great-grandfather, dentists all the way back to the late 1800s (until I bucked the trend and became a writer, instead). My maternal grandfather worked in construction as an engineer.
A new study examined Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels to see if they could detect changes in his writing prior to his tragic Alzheimer's diagnosis. Here's what the study says, and what it doesn't say 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/03/did-...
Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...
A few years ago I got REALLY into the Assassin's Creed games, playing all of them in release order over the course of a year and a half. Just remembered that I can finally try out AC Shadows on my new PS5, but I'm also kind of tempted to just replay them all from the beginning.
I've been looking forward to this launch since I first heard Ben describing the high concept for the story a few months ago, and now you can check it out, too!
My pal @wordblanket.com has launched his cool SHUFFLED serial fiction project. SOLID establishment of the world and a couple of the main characters in the first chapter. I'm looking forward to reading regular chapters. Serial fiction is fun.
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1555...
Blake Babies, for sure. (And no lie, I still have nearly half of these cassettes in a box in storage.)
That series has been on my radar for a while, but knowing that it has an Evan Call soundtrack just might be the thing to nudge it to the top of my To Watch list.
Please watch my animated short, Dang! It's Dracula, on YouTube! youtu.be/th8hKC9Y4Rc?...
I always reintroduce myself unless it's someone that I've shared more than one meal with, and sometimes even then.
I've started reading four different novels and abandoned each after only a few chapters in recent days after they failed to hold my attention, and only now it occurs to me that just maybe my anxiety and dread about world events might be interfering with my ability to focus properly.
Another week without any projects for me to letter, so please keep me in mind for your new series and please consider requesting me via your WFH editor! I need to get my schedule filled as soon as possible! Thank you 🙏🏻
The main title theme from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is always tantalizingly familiar to me, reminding me of incidental music from some video game I've played in recent years, but I can never put my finger on just which one (and searching through musical clips online has proved fruitless).
I have fallen into a deep Gorillaz shaped hole the last few days and I don't show any signs of emerging any time soon...
Reminder that this is one of THE best comics out there.
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Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.
Finally had a chance to watch Longlegs last night, and everyone who raved about it in 2024, you were absolutely right. I liked it a lot. Going in I hadn't known that it was (a) a period piece and (b) set in Oregon, which both came a pleasant discoveries along the way.
I was kind of amazed I was able to get it up and running, but after the first live action cut scene finished I was running around punching and kicking security guards no problem, so I guess it works!
I remember playing the first few hours of it and enjoying it, but got distracted and never went back to it. But held onto the discs in pristine condition all this time, just in case.
While digging through a box of old CDs in my closet I found the installation disks for the Enter the Matrix video game from 2003, so naturally I had to try to get it installed and running on my desktop, which I have now done. Never finished it the first time around, seriously considering it now.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
re: Kansas today, but everything generally—I don’t repeat what’s become a talking point about the number of trans people being so small to be so targeted. The number of people harmed is not a fight I want to have when that number could be one and the harm would still be wrong.
Yesterday I began to worry that I am overthinking the lore for this new comic idea I'm working on. Then late last night I realized that the solution was to overthink it even more but in another direction. Problem solved!
