Another two weeks, as tends to happen. Been something of a roller coaster of a time over these past two weeks, though.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf83 Halloween was on a Saturday this year, and I headed over to a friend’s house for a few hours for their annual Halloween party. Had a nice evening hanging out with friends from the SeaGoth and convention communities. The Venn diagram of the goth and SFF fan convention communities has a lot<\/em> of overlap in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83c\udf82 This Tuesday was my wife’s birthday. We took off from work a little early, came home, and had a nice evening having birthday treats, watching silly TV, and doing our best to ignore the rest of the world, because\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \u2026Tuesday was also elections day, and for the past few years, that hasn’t exactly been a terribly good day. Thankfully, things went quite a bit better this year<\/a>. Not perfect, but much better than we feared they would.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Finished a book I’ve been working on for six months: Dracula Daily<\/cite><\/a>, Matt Kirkland’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s book. It’s a very fun way to revisit the story.<\/p>\n Two new albums from long-time favorites came out recently, and I’ve been enjoying both of them:<\/p>\n Jesus Jones’s Twilight<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket<\/cite>: I talked to Tom, the viral \u2018Jonestown\u2019 Trump rally guy<\/a>: “I spoke to Hoyle by phone Thursday evening about his 25 seconds of fame, being a \u201cdaywalker,\u201d the meaning behind his shirt, and how he learned comedic timing from Billy Crystal.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Paul Thompson at Albums That Should Exist<\/cite>: Pink Floyd – The Maximum Wall (1979)<\/a>: “\u2026a reimagining of the entire Wall universe. \u00b6 It gathers every available building block of material: the album, the film, demos, outtakes, alternate versions, songs from ‘The Final Cut’ album, and more. They’ve all been collected, edited, extended, mixed and sequenced to create a single continuous vision, narrative and experience.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Jason Torchinsky at The Autopian<\/cite>: A Typography Geek Pointed Out Something About The Space Shuttle Discovery And Now I Can\u2019t Unsee It<\/a>: Ugh, that clickbait headline. One of the S’s on the space shuttle Discovery<\/i>‘s markings is upside-down.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Trae Dorn: Why Fanfic Writers Should Be Maintaining Their Own Sites<\/a>: “A distributed internet is a more robust internet, and it\u2019s time for us all to become internet cockroaches again, fanfic writers included. It\u2019s time to build that site, whether it\u2019s on a paid platform, a free platform, or anything else. You keep your works on as many servers as possible, so if one goes down, it remains available \u2014 and you should be in total control of at least one of them.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Why No AI?<\/a>: A good one-stop-shopping list of reasons.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Mother Jones<\/cite> (no byline): America Finally Has the Votes to End the Electoral College<\/a>: “Come January, Democratic legislators will have the votes to elect the next president by the popular vote.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Brittany Packnett Cunningham at The Cut<\/cite>: The \u2018Blue Wave\u2019 Is Really a Black Tsunami<\/a> (gift link; archive.is isn’t loading it, but there is an Internet Archive mirror<\/a> if the gift link ever expires): “This country owes a debt to the thousands of local and national Black organizers, students, leaders, institutions, creators, journalists, and neighbors who have helped (and continue to help) bring democracy back from the brink and slow the threat of autocracy.”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\ud83d\udcda Reading<\/h2>\n
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