Random Saturday
In spite of an average four days of rain for every one of sun and the this year incessant interest from the moose (I chased off a cow and two calves with my car a couple of days ago), #inmygarden 2026 is not a total loss.
Let’s get this Friday started!
#thiswritinglife
Dana sez–I only wish I’d had this list when I began writing, but 40-ish novels later, I do have a few things figured out. I don’t follow all these rules slavishly. I say begin with the murder but…often I don’t. Every writer does things differently, so don’t take how someone else writes as your template.…
…it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent…”
A coffee table book about brooches, but don’t let that frivolous description stop you. Madeleine Albright, first woman secretary of state, accessorized with pins all her life, but it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent” in a poem he allegedly wrote himself that she retaliated by wearing a pin in the shape…
Read more …it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent…”
Lagniappe Sunday
Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
Random Saturday
Speaking as an Alaskan I’d have eliminated Texas, not New Mexico. xkcd (h/t Kottke)
Let’s get this Friday started!
I’ve always loved their “Black Betty” in the shower, too.
#thiswritinglife
Dana sez, he’s writing about visual artists but most of this is useful for writers, too. Especially Admit It’s a Business The number one mistake I see artists make is not accepting that they run a business. If you cannot accept and even embrace this simple fact, you are totally hosed. It is hard to…
#inmygarden
In spite of the rain that fell straight through the Fourth of July weekend…
Lagniappe Sunday
So long and thanks for all the belly laughs. Although he missed the Pinwheel of Death. (Brian Phillips in The Ringer, h/t Kottke) Plus, further illness and death that won’t happen, brought to you by vaccines: Bangladesh just vaccinated 18.4 million children in an emergency measles-rubella campaign after an outbreak killed more than 600 people and exposed…
