Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?
A quintet of young pearl oyster mushrooms grow like overlapping mollusks from the side of a moss speckled log. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
These are gorgeous!
Everything that’s going on has me writing a short story about rich and powerful men at a manor house being picked off one by one. And I thought the horror would be in how the monster does it, but it’s actually in how the men keep up the air of normalcy even in obvious calamity.
1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
If anyone has something to help me get thru to tomorrow, I'd appreciate it.
Had to make a surprise urgent care visit.
PayPal.me/panediting
One sold ads for the local newspaper. The other did a bit of everything: taffy puller, crab fisherman, panned for gold
Reminder that we're doing a query critique donation drive for a shelter-in-place program here in MSP. Going well so far--we're at about $1700 and would love to get to like $2500. Come get your pitch critiqued!
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
A red moon with little white at the bottom
Tonight's lunar eclipse at 3:33AM and 33 seconds on March 3rd.
If you need a break from the news, I just published a space ghost romance short story on my website you can read here:
writingles.my.canva.site/space-ghost-...
James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
Trans people protect your peace! Stop doomscrolling, block transphobes, and take a deep breath. I am not going to sugar coat it: things fucking suck right now. But make sure you realize that you are not alone and in the end love will overcome hate.
Screenshot of post reading: No notes. Quoting post from Mass Daily News reading: Ed Markey demands abolishing ICE, impeaching Trump, firing RFK Jr., Noem and Patel, reversing tax cuts, passing universal healthcare AND securing a Green New Deal…
No notes.
Just THREE DAYS left!
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
She’s perfect! Good healing to you both
Providence Girls is free to get on Kindle today. :)
Trader Joe’s cashier, scanning in my absurd number of frozen items: wow, you must have a big freezer.
Me, knowing full well I’m about to have the equivalent of a boxing + chess match against my normal size freezer: yup, real big.
ah, this reminds me I need to call Governor Healey again
(617) 725-4005
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."
I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."
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Birnam Wood is moving to Dunsinane Hill
Tina Belcher wrote the Levi’s ad
No Kings includes Draft Kings
That was not very Wild Geese by Mary Oliver of you, dude
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