The snippet of the day is from OFF THE SCREEN, an SF novel due out in one month. It is set 150 years from now, and the characters are talking about musical theater:
"One of those biographical musicals, like Hamilton, or Barack at Harvard, or Evita.”
Many orchids reblooming! I think I have 4 different ones here.
Chinese New Year at the Portland farm market!
This is not the cover of the novel, OFF THE SCREEN. It's the cover of the program of the musical the characters are staging, in a future when live theater has been slain by AI. To write the book I had to create the program (all the actors, numbers, etc) and from there to the program was easy.
This is actually a pattern from Knitty, not Ravelry: knitty.com/ISSUEfall08/...
It's an adorable pattern, far more fun that just knitting a square. I only hope it doesn't make the baby dizzy!
A blanket knitted for the hospital.
I have to repost this at least twice a year. At this moment they're telling the US military that Armageddon is on the way. So this lays out the Christian thought about end times.
bookviewcafe.com/the-rapture-...
At that instant the sun dimmed like a lamp running out of oil. There was something there on the beach, confronting Tad. He yelled, a wordless shriek of terror, as it loomed before him, taller than a man but smokily transparent. Two fearsome skeletal hands reached and seized Tad by the throat.
This short film has been nominated for an Oscar. It is =hysterical=, and I use that term advisedly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxpj...
The adult beverage of the day is a Black Manhattan. Rye plus Averno, very sophisticated.
Today I have a library card in two county systems. There was a period when I had a library card in seven. Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Montgomery, and Prince Georges counties, plus the District of Columbia. I had a Library of Congress card but they don't let you take stuff out.
35k, and this book is all talk. Not enough action. Why can't a girl have mayhem. Muse, give me mayhem! The combat robots should show up soon, maybe we can have some violence. The hero's going to overbalance in mid flight and ... fall out of the sky? No, maybe he should go splat against a wall...
Due for an update? This first came out in 1980. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hE...
Lookit that, the Portland Frogs made it into the Washington POST. This is a free click. wapo.st/4aNkG7S
The worm in the brain is the only explanation for his fantastic stupidity.
I asked my MD to check my measles antibodies, and it turns out mine are still active. So it might be worth a check, if they're drawing blood out anyway.
Weird, others report it is OK. It's also up on the FB side if you go check there.
The dessert of the day is a chocolate cloud cake from Tous les Jours, a nearby bakery
This is an important story for friends my age. Enjoy it, it's a free click. I've unsubscribed from the POST, so there won't be many more. wapo.st/40hAz1H
Acquired today, used. It's good to think ahead, right?
Over in PLANETSIDE, the online magazine of SFWA, I have an article for writers about reading your own work aloud as a marketing tool. And, since it is about reading aloud, there's an audio version as well!
www.sfwa.org/2026/02/24/c...
I am reminded that Nebula Award nominations close at the end of this month. SFWA members, I draw your attention to HIS SELACHIAN MAJESTY REQUESTS, which is eligible!
Sent just now to my governor (Oregon):
I see that more than one governor of a US has submitted an invoice to the White House, for reimbursement of the illegally applied tariffs. I hope you'll send in one for Oregon too. Might as well get our claim in there, right?
A magnificent loaf of bread from local baker! As food as you get in france.
Yarn chicken, and I won! With barely one yard left.
Gosh, I dislike slow burn romance. It's taken them 27k to climb into bed. C'mon, characters, get it into gear! I want my combat robots!
Recognize this? It's a phone booth! No phone it in any more.
On a nearby bulletin board.
The 20th century was the US century. Britain had the 19th, France the 18th. So I'd believe the 21st c. will be Asian. If China can get on top of its demographic difficulties.
