Dueling spellcasters. Reanimated corpses. High-speed steamcarriage chases. Bad breakfasts. At least one demon and four puns. And so much more. THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL from @parliamentbooks #Steampunk #SteampunkReads https://t.co/wD0Qx3pFfh

My Dryer: plays a cheery little song to let me know it’s done. Me: Nice, my clothes are dry. Dryer: I didn’t say they were dry. I said they were DONE. Me: … Dryer: Here, I twisted everything into a sopping wet rope for you.

In which the DarkLit debacle continues to drag. I feel for the authors hung up in this purgatorial slog.

Maybe one day I’ll be able to hear the name Alfred Bester without “What about Ray Bradbury?” blaring inside my skull, but today was not that day.

“Whatever, the next person will probably wipe it down before they use it” is the “The shampoo lather runoff will clean my balls when I rinse my hair” of the workout world.

At this point I just assume the people who don’t wipe down the equipment they use at the gym are the same people who don’t actively wash their privates in the shower.

No one will remember: - your salary - how “busy” you were - how many hours you worked People will remember: - that time the waitress said “Enjoy your meal” and you replied “Thanks, you too!”

@HNTurtledove @henryrollins @RobertJSawyer Situation update! The Wall of Inspiration now has quotes from @HNTurtledove, @henryrollins, and @RobertJSawyer. The RJS is a paraphrase from his Masterclass Workshop at When Words Collide @alexwriters last weekend. (Prior to this, one colleague asked if these were my uncles.)

Favourite quotes from each will be added when I have a chance to pick up some hanging hooks. We’re not allowed to use nails because asbestos! Until then, here’s my Bowie section (also a work in progress).

My “Wall of Inspiration” in my office is taking shape. @HNTurtledove, whose work first made me sit up and say “I want to do this one day!” @HenryRollins for inspiring me to “Show up and do the work!” @RobertJSawyer for proving to this kid that a Canadian can make a go of it.

A visit to a small town used bookstore turned up a @HNTurtledove short fiction collection paperback I’ve never seen (and never heard of) before. Sure to be some gems in here!

Would you rather watch a trained falcon fly a loop during the day, or kestrel manoeuvres in the dark?

When you’re in the elevator with that coworker you have almost nothing in common with.

I just backed Hauntings & Hoarfrost: A Gothic Anthology w/ a Winter Twist on @Kickstarter by @TycheBooks! https://t.co/AkWppOHQd8

Thinking about it today, and I can’t remember any sci-fi starship besides the Enterprise D which had both cats and carpet.

Late to the party, perhaps, but I’m currently reading and thoroughly enjoying WOUNDS by @NBallingrud. Delicious stuff! Ballingrud’s prose is on another level here. I’ll be adding everything he has ever written to my TBR.

Are you normal, or do you (like me) find yourself occasionally spending time fretting and fuming about how much fridge and cupboard space is wasted by the gaps between circular containers like jars, bottles, cans, and yogurt tubs?

I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish it with books, a comfy seat and Earl Grey tea in a cozy reading nook. I'd like to buy the world a book and give them time to read. That's the real thing.

they can just drop prices by 30-fucking-percent and still turn a profit which just shows you most of our current inflation problems is a scam cover for record profiteering

"Galen Weston" is trending, but unfortunately "defenestrated" is not.

So of course we all realized immediately Bender in Futurama was named in tribute to John Bender in The Breakfast Club, but, uh... I just now figured out Frye is named after Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. (this is probably new information to only me)