He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence
Antibiotics did not solve my ten days of sinus headache so now I get to take prednisone. I’m going to be so productive at things that I don’t actually need to do.
Tim Powers, THE STRESS OF HER REGARD, finished 4/21. Reread. I’d forgotten how absolutely batshit this is, a kitchen sink of myth and physics and history and horror and Romantic poets and geography and gore. It’s way too long. I love it.
but my favorite part was them confessing that they’d vaped weed in our guest bathroom late at night with the window open and the fan on like a pair of teenagers who I am somehow responsible for
Photo inside a hangar with a bunch of two-man planes. Arcing over them is the wing of a plane ten times their size.
My parents visited for my birthday and we had a lovely time doing yardwork and going to the art museum and the Japanese Garden and the Evergreen Museum where they keep the Spruce Goose which is genuinely mind-bendingly enormous
John Banville, VENETIAN VESPERS, finished 4/19. I like an unlikable, unreliable narrator, but this drags. I’d rather read Sarah Waters.
Happy belated birthday, literal birthday twins!!!
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Was yesterday their actual birthday or was it observed? It was my actual birthday and I think I should’ve asked for better presents, like at least a train set.
Happy birthday to me, fix your hearts or die 🥰
It’s about first contact and gender and colonization and how to coexist with change. It’s an exquisite exploration of otherness. I didn’t buy the main character’s romance, even a little bit, but I will be thinking about this book for a long time.
Cameron Reed, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING, finished 4/16.
There’s a kind of science fiction that boils down to “aliens: they’re just like us!”, and another kind that sets up that premise and then knocks it down.
This book starts from the premise that we are not like us.
Exactly one year ago today:
Cutest little vector!!!
Somehow three days of 7/10 sinus pain did not seal the deal; I needed to hear about abscesses.
Today I happened to see the doc who prescribes my immunosuppressant and he gave some graphic descriptions of opportunistic infections he’s seen in patients on this med and you know what, sign me up, I will take doxycycline for life like the Lyme people and maybe also live in a bubble just to be safe
I’ve been avoiding picking up antibiotics for what’s definitely a sinus infection because the side effects suck, there’s no guarantee it’s bacterial, overuse contributes to antibiotic resistance, etc
DNF:
Cameron Reed, THE FORTUNATE FALL. Just couldn’t get into it.
AG Slatter, THE CRIMSON ROAD. When I was 22 I lent my older coworker THE HISTORIAN and she said it was “hilarious” and I was super offended and then I reread it at 35 and was like, yeah, this IS hilarious. Same energy.
Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Wendy N. Wagner, GIRL IN THE CREEK, finished 4/12. Fungal body horror in rural Oregon. I will not be hiking for a while.
Elizabeth Hand, HOKULOA ROAD, finished 4/12. Mainer moves to Hawai’i and encounters murder, birds, and folklore.
I haven’t read many books set during lockdown. Not sure if that’s due to my genre choices, or a cultural desire to memoryhole the pandemic. It’s an effective part of the setting, here.
All running barefoot in the moonlight, blood on our lips and bows on our shoulders, leading the hounds in the hunt, howling as the men scramble desperately through the woods
men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
glamorous Portrait Mode photo of a bearded brown and gold chicken on a lawn, staring balefully at the camera
Have received photo evidence that Scout is happy, and presumably still screaming, downriver. Getting rid of her was the best decision I’ve made all year.
It actually kicked in Saturday, which still seems long!
Honestly it kicked in so late it may actually have been the flight home!
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I still have a fever and gunk in my lungs and everything hurts and I’m dying but otoh I finished a bunch of fetch quests and got new horses. also ww3 didn’t start I guess. I’ll call today a draw.
(it’s “of fucking course,” fight me)