…that I began explaining The Curse of Lono to her, rather than The Great Shark Hunt. And in thanking Z profusely, I told him twice that the only edition of The Great Shark Hunt I own was the big Taschen coffee-table sized edition — an edition which doesn’t exist for The Great Shark Hunt, but rather — once again — The Curse of Lono.

…a man so morally loathsome that he made Edward Kramer seem like an altar boy and so deft at concealment that he made some of the more recent SFWA leadership look positively transparent.

Readers won’t know any of that, of course. Particularly not for the scene in question. But I do. And that’s part of the job, I suppose.

But that part of the job doesn’t get easier with age, kids.

That will free up a lot of time for me. I am behind on deadlines, and feel like crap about it. FALLING ANGELS: THE LABYRINTH Book 4 should have been on sale in time for the holidays, and instead I’m still writing it.

Chyld were a remarkable band — a hybrid of grunge, progressive metal, and sludge/doom metal before any of those things were even things. True innovators, all but forgotten to time except to hardcore local music fans like myself and probably John Boden…

‘But it is my experience, and I will share it with you. I don’t know that it’s wisdom, but it is my truth…’

‘Posting a link to it on Instagram is useless, because people just look at the accompanying picture and comment on that, rather than whatever the topic of the Blog was. Seriously. I could write an essay here about children dying in diamond mines, and post a link to it on Instagram with an accompanying photo of a diamond, and the comments would all be “Oooooh! What a pretty diamond!”…’

She’s the same age as The Great Gatsby, and she’s lived through and witnessed major events in human history such as the Great Depression, World War Two, the end of Segregation and Jim Crow, Sputnik and the Moon Landing, Vietnam, the collapse of the USSR, the inventions of television and the internet, cloning, 9/11, and even the Kardashians.

The opposing party has, thus far, been like a crossing guard on quaaludes, either afraid to stand up and mount an actual political resistance movement when there was still time, or — like my homeboy John Fetterman — playing footsie with the other side in a ill-fated attempt at self preservation.

Local elections are taking place across much of the United States today, including in New York City, where one of the most pressing issues on people’s minds isn’t taxes or crime or healthcare or tolls, but the fact that an eighteen-year old child has never seen a thirty-eight year old film called The Princess Bride.

And look, that gin wasn’t even supposed to be for me. See, what happened was this…

But I left him in charge of all that, so I never really paid attention. All I cared about was “did the show sound good” and “did we get the interview”. And since in the entirety of the show, there was only one recorded interview that got lost and never made it to the air (a 90 minute sit down with…

Unfortunately, Jim, Dacia, and myself didn’t foresee recording a podcast to deal with that sort of stupidity.

The 1X Neo begins shipping to homeowners next year. It can turn your lights on and off, and maybe open a door. If you want it to do anything else, however, you’ll have to grant camera access to your home so that somebody half the world away can operate the robot with…

Which is apparently America’s only export now — a succession of old men from both political parties drooling into their Cream-O-Wheat…

Last night’s wrap marks the end of phase 1 of filming for DEAD FORMAT. We have some second unit scenes to film with actor…