Email this morning confirming they are closing the account.

Delisted my D2D ebooks. Only way to close your account is to ask customer service to close it, so I did. Got an email saying, “Are you sure? If you don’t have books listed, you won’t be charged the maintenance fee.” (What’s the point of the account, then?) I confirmed. Haven’t heard back yet.

When I’m alone and talking to myself, I will often revise what I just said for accuracy or style.

Welp, guess I’m closing my Draft2Digital account. I knew I would be, sooner or later, when they bought Smashwords, just didn’t know what it was going to be.

I’m “7-Eleven opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 11 p.m.” years old.

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

A package of Colonel’s Favorite Jellybeans, with flavors Fried Chicken, Sweet Corn, and Gravy. (All labeled “artificially flavored.”)

Anne and I are back from our trip to NYC, Edinburgh, London, and Dublin.

We might have these in the States, but I’ve only seen them in London. (KFC seems more popular than McD’s in the places we visited.)

Reading Don Quixote. In the 2nd book, I don’t know how the author intends us to take the Duke and Duchess; but they’re rich and powerful and they play games with the lives, feelings, and honor of those who aren’t, and I hope they meet a grisly end (but I know they won’t).

If I had to choose three books that every young reader (7-12) should read, they would be:
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Hobbit

I’m going to be in Scotland for a few days this spring, but unfortunately not in time for Hippfest! ☹️

The forecast today is literally “63° and snow,” so I’m getting in my outdoors time with the dogs before the “snow” part hits. (Though they both love snow.)

I wish the Pleasant Company, creators of the American Girl Doll brand, made more plastic tubing. Then the packaging could say (Pleasant Company extruded)

Well I made it into the Comics Curmudgeon “Comments of the Week,” so i’m having a good day. (Username Basil Wishbone)

Local weather forecast:

Saturday: high of 71°F

Sunday: high of 62°F, 60% chance of snow

Monday: high of 29°F

… then the following weekend, highs in the upper 70s/low 80s

That’s if you murder seven people by your own choice. If God tells you to wipe out an entire town, and you don’t, then—you deserve eternal torture.

It’s obvious to me now that such a religion is a training program for authoritarianism. Evil isn’t about what you do, it’s about who you defy.

The religion I was brought up in didn’t have the concept of venial & mortal sins. Sin was sin. Rob & murder seven people, and you deserve eternal torture. Lie about having read War and Peace, and you deserve eternal torture. Eat some fruit you’re not supposed to, and all of humanity has to die. 1/2

It’s weird that so many US presidents were named after high schools and bridges.

Fascinating thread!

In black and white, a vintage set of encyclopedias, “THE WORLD BOOK: ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE IN STORY AND PICTURE”

Is this what they mean by World Book Day?

Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night for comedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra for tragedies. Oh, and King Lear. And I have a soft spot for Timon of Athens, though I admit it’s not one of his best.

I’m late on the “true thing about you that sounds made up” but I had a summer job helping fix pens at the Parrot Hill Crocodile Farm, which was some woman’s home in the middle of the city where she kept caimans, crocodiles, and at least one alligator. The gator was in its pen as I was working on it.

You’d be an immense improvement on our current governor. You can take over for the senators, too.

The more he starts wars, the more we ask, “Where the fuck are those files?”

young dog howls, humans
howl, aoo, aoo, aooo…
old dog shuts her eyes

senryu

The X-Files, Season 1, Episode 11

MULDER: Since 1967, over 34 states have reported unsolved cases of cattle mutations.

(So… 35 states?)

Me: I wish there were a market within walking distance where I could go to get fresh produce every day or so.

Also me: (in my power recliner, eating butter for a snack.)

Will people be able to park without a smartphone?

It seems to me that most book-banning laws, if applied as written, would end up banning the Bible. I say this as a Bible college alum and the son of a preacher.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Therapist: And what do we do when we’re sad?

Me: Buy more books.

Therapist:

Therapist: Ok I’m going to give you that one.