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Inbetweening in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
During the periods when I’m not working, I seem to be in a place where I abstain from taking my ADD medication until such time as I happen to wake up at 4:00 a.m. with something ready to start se...
Of demons, ambiguity, and the beauty of a web in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
From time to time . . . do you ever have the feeling that you are secretly attended by demons, who, just every now and then, do little natural-seeming interventions, nudges, to thwart development...
Blood in Brussels in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
And I think of making lists like “Things I Like”… and “Things I Like”… (My perennial forgetfulnesses reave me like a shrike!) – scrap of paper I scribbled on while typing that last marijuana en...
Spring is always different. Here in the Pacific Northwest the transition matches the increasing diminishment of the soggy grey and the reappearance of the sun. But it used to happen in New Mexi...
The glum title is chosen because tomorrow is “Super Tuesday”, when a large clump of states have their primaries for both major U.S. parties . . . and, on the Democratic side, Sanders is not favor...
Donald Trump: America's solution for Tony Abbott envy? in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Trump, Trump, Trump… I do not want to write about Donald Trump. But it worries at me, and I pace, and there is no Gwen for the mutual balm of talking. If I smoked cigarettes, he would be making...
Two parody-poems upon a BSOD in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
THE SONG OF BLUE-SCREEN SOLOMON Behold, thou art not fair, Blue Screen; behold, thou art not fair; thou hast snake’s eyes within thy locks: thy hair as is a pair of goats, their horns hopelessly ...
Flug wakes up and grabs the laptop by the bed... in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Just now dreamed an Elmore Leonard special and no mistake. It started with a man, a private detective, meeting a woman, and a strangely whirlwind romance, with the woman finding him so strangely...
Filler/excuse: The perils of simplicity in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
There should have been a long, wide-ranging, and very good entry awhile back. There almost was, but it vanished. I wrote it on a webpage that forces you to write in only the most commonly used ...
The one about "truthers" in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I’ve shown it before, but here is the first of the two business cards I have. “And around me, as I fiddled in Gimpshop, I felt the winds of prophecy . . .” I am finding it much less amusing at ...
The email continues. So, with this winter of discontent about the future of space (or about the torpidity of its approach) in the background . . . what am I thinking that Australia should do in...
(Long title. Start a naming convention in haste, repent at leisure.) I won’t have an excuse to mention it later, so: a movie to get in DVD - almost certainly by ordering it from Japan, as I did, ...
Polesitter 1 - the unattended promise in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
So. In the throes of mooning about Woomera past and present, I did some investigation into its prospects - more specifically into the prospects for some sort of ongoing role for it, for a living ...
A birthday, a tooth, and three outworld gallivants in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Four days ago I finished a very strange month-long stint of editing. No thickets of narrow decisions are in my face. This will probably only last a few more days, but my free time is for the mo...
. . . Faugh. ENOUGH!! So much for my finding a philosophical way to MOURN an at-long-last social outcome that I have been wishing for and arguing for for thirty years!!! :-) (And probably too d...
Attention Deficit Disorder periodically involves an inability to remember whether the pills that one just swallowed included the Attention Deficit Disorder pill. I remember opening the two bottle...
What happens when I'm in a jeremiad mood in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
There should be a word for the feeling of approval of ruthlessness, including one’s own vicarious ruthlessness, and approval of one’s approval of it, all in a package. Things should have adequate...
Alex affects the universe in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
So, the other morning I woke early - well, at 5:50 a.m. , which is not the sort of early where I can really grind my forehead into my pillow to get back to sleep, but which is early enough for me...
Pirates for posterity in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Getting very, very tired of this ultra-verbiated madness, and somewhat dismayed by it. Me. My comments. Here, in Facebook, under io9 posts, everywhere. My language brain is hyper-stimulated a...
Why it is wrong to take care of the "job creators" in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I rarely try to write about economics anymore, even though I’ve retained my sense of it - somewhere, in potentia - as the magnificently challenging Queen of the Social Sciences and of the Navigat...
So I edited the short story “The Grove” (which can be found here), and then resumed and completed work on the All Ages version of the novel Fluency, and then I incorporated all the edits of the ...
Because the good ones should all be written down in as many places as possible. :-) I keep coming back to these. SMOTHERED CABBAGE AND KIELBASA Like many of our favorites, this is something w...
And then something went "bump." in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
A welcome pause, taken in deep fatigue. A big bowl of smothered cabbage and kielbasa—fine stuff; I don’t think I put in quite enough crushed dried red chillies this time. Always seek out kielbas...
So, there'll be a story coming. in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I sort of fell backward into editing work. In fact, I’m too busy to write here, about that or some other things. Soon, though. A break has to come sometime.
Denouement/me talking to people in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Most of the business… I need to be more careful, or less naive, when I talk to people. Otherwise it’s water over the dam. But there is the leftover problem with my friend (I’ll go ahead and say ...
