If you’re a writer, you only wish you could write this well. Some excerpts: According to the news, Kyle Rittenhouse, the man who fatally shot two protesters during the 2020 demonstrations in Kenosha and then became the right-wing’s favorite little armed grievance goblin and mascot for gun worship and “self-defense” cosplay, was hospitalized after a…
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Tiny telepathic teleporting dragons
A reread after many years, which holds up well. Not much style but a lot of substance—settlers fleeing a dying Earth emigrate across the stars to a planet in orbit around Rukbat. A story for our times for sure. Only—uh-oh—until…after they’ve landed and moved planetside they discover that an erratic body that transverses Rukbat’s solar…
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Lagniappe Sunday
Dana sez, I promise you, so well and wittily written that you will not want to skip ahead in reading this story to find out which restaurant does serve the best bread. On the other hand, at the end you may immediately click over to your air carrier of choice to book a ticket to…
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#inmygarden
It has been a long, cold, very windy winter, which has turned into a long, cold, windy spring, if indeed spring is ever going to come. April 26th, one brave bud of rhubarb, one insanely optimistic Himalayan poppy peeking up. May 8th. Left, more rhubarb buds, but still only buds. Right, now there are two…
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Random Saturday
One of those great little museums who choose one topic and stick to it–the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska. I’ve been there three times and I’d go there again in a heartbeat. Just turn left at the twenty-foot hammer. And of course there’s a video. And just ’cause.
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