Yah, I'm on one of those now. Major NY press. I even know the author. First book was good. Second book is not, but I feel as though I owe the author a complete reading. Maybe it will get better, but I doubt it.
Maybe the only thing we can do is make fun of the people steering us into some fresh hell.
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Years ago I got drunk and ran a marathon the next morning, with a hangover. It didn't go well.
Trump didn't even care enough to doff his ridiculous stage prop cap. That ain't dignified where I come from.
Once you go full, you never go back. Just today I was searching for a landscape pic I needed...it was from my old D300 and it just wasn't sharp enough to be useful. My progression over 20 years: D200, D300, D800, D810, D850, Z8. You're gonna love all those pixels when it's time to crop.
Absolutely. These days we have to find our amusement somewhere, no?
An editor is not a proofreader. Surely you know that many people have their hands on a book before it hits the streets, and they're all doing different jobs. If the proofreader slips, or the copyeditor slips -- it's nothing to do with the editor (who was almost certainly not a professional editor).
OK, so this is NOT THE 2026 ECLIPSE. But since heavy cloud cover kept me from shooting it here, I offer the 2019 eclipse, as seen from Kahinahina on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. Altitude about 9,200 feet. There's a reason optical observatories get as high as they can -- clear air.
Running in the snow is tiring. Sometimes, if it's deep enough, Tommy raises serious bow waves.
Nothing beats getting a poke bowl or bulk poke at Suisan in Hilo, Hawai'i. You know the fish you're getting was caught the night before and prepared a few feet from where you're buying it. Mainland poke is a poor imitation (but better than having none).
My mother taught HS English in Hilo, Hawai'i, and always taught this poem. In the 50s, she was working at night in her classroom when a handful of her students walked in, recited the poem, and left. She never forgot that. It must have made her very happy.
After weeks of concrete skies and snow and awfulness, we finally got a spectacular sunrise.
Yeah, I had the same experience. Or maybe I forgot about that non-fiction book I wrote about Henry Ford's early days.
It's terrible, but the woman who called the cops on him has to take some of the blame for his death. She could have figured out what was wrong, and helped. She didn't.
I hit my stride in my fifties, and got out two books (story collection and memoir) in my seventies, a lit mag publication at 81 and I'm shopping a novel around as I look at 83.
As Richard Pryor said, "You don't get old bein' no fool."
What frosts me is when the print edition price is the same as the Kindle price. I see this mostly with academic/university presses. Here are Amazon's numbers: book over $9.99, publisher gets 35%. Book $9.99 or under, publisher gets 70%. It's possible that big publishers get better deals, I suppose.
Whoops. Should have read the article before commenting on the post.
Let's not leave out Natsuo Kirino. "Out" is amazing and "Swallows" (a very different novel) is excellent.
I'm hoping the Canadian hockey team wins, so we can see an epic Trump meltdown.
Infrared, of course, to verify her hotness or (as we all know) lack of it.
As the saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you.
No votes were the dumbshit and the two super-corrupt guys. No surprises there.
Yep, and the other two are thoroughly corrupt. One dumbass, two grifters.
All good suggestions but I think the easiest is to sign up for Dropbox (free or paid). Then place the folder that has your work in the Dropbox folder. Done -- it's now being backed up and you don't have to remember to do anything. Everything in the Dropbox folder is backed up automatically.
Hey, if they can take out a balloon in 2026 a meteor should be easy way in the future.
Reminds me of how I used to warn my students that in my multiple-choice exams some choices were true statements but even so, not necessarily the right answer. That's what we're seeing here...and the stakes are a lot higher than getting a multiple-choice question right.
I'm thinking that border security will stop it. Right?
Jennifer Doudna. Nobel Prize 2020. Hilo High School, Hilo HI.
The main flaw -- and where these myth-spouters are vulnerable -- is the question of rate of change. Yes, change happened in the past. Of course. But how fast? As fast as it's happening now? No! But the dumbshits either don't understand rate of change or are hoping the masses don't.
