Exactly.

Cats GIVE scratches.

They receive scritches.

Happiness is asking your romantic partner if she will watch a video of a live performance of "Subdivisions" with you in what hopefully is advance of seeing Rush live together this fall, and having her say "Yes".

And then saying "That's a lot of drums."

On the contrary, I /have/ talked about it, but I will not be doing so in the future. My point stands. :-)

"The new memoir from Lena Dunham that everyone will be talking about."

I will in fact not be talking about it, if only to disprove the hypothesis.

Take that, social media marketing manager!

I remember sending you a link to a live rendition of this song.

Your response was, and I quote, “What the fuck am I listening to?”

Sitting alone in a dark house at midnight listening to "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers".

Why, yes, I am a horror writer. Why do you ask?

Already in full midseason “Where the heck did I park at the Durham Bulls game?” form.

#BullsWin

I appear to be physically allergic to Confederate apologia.

…the moment you hit the road a half hour later than you planned but a half hour earlier than you expected, and call it a win.

It's doing the thing where I write it, it's fine there, I move my thumb to hit SEND, and in that instant it changes it on me without conscience or permission.

I shake my tiny fist.

So help me, the next time I'm talking about loving on a cat and autocorrect changes "scritches" to "scratches" on me, I am driving to Cupertino with my crowbar and a lot of very stern language.

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I am humbled, honored, and very proud to receive this recognition from the IGDA Game Writing SIG.

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Today's song lyric quote:

"I used to hate the fool in me, but only in the morning/Now I tolerate him all day long."

-Mike Cooley, the Drive-By Truckers, "Perfect Timing"

Every so often, someone you’ve worked with says something really nice about you that genuinely makes you think “I did something good, didn’t I?”

Am both humbled and appreciative right now.

And he still probably looked like a 70 year old crank addict.

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I would like to thank my sister for NOT informing me of the Chapel Hill Library Book Sale this weekend, for obvious reasons.

But I know Betamax Guillotine....

A conversation I had today:

"The first concert I ever went to was Lynyrd Skynyrd with Kid Rock."

"That was zombie Lynyrd Skynyrd."

Whew. Haven't had a two week writing sprint like that in a while. Just like old times.

Not good times, just old times :-)

....did I really just get a subscription offer in the mail from the goddamn National Enquirer?

This is like the time I got on some right-wing mailing list that kept getting sold back and forth and got fifty subscription offers from Forbes, or, as I like to call it, "HuffPo for Von Mises fanfic"

….maybe?

Twix bar for me

Sweeney Todd was such a bad experience it basically made me quit playing clarinet forever.

It’s the only production I’ve ever seen where they actually wanted to actively hurt the pit orchestra.

Considering my current writing workload, my lack of a Jolt! problem now is my problem :-)

I am not actually sure I did. There is a non-zero chance I have been Sixth Sense-ing my way through the decades ever since, and that production of Sweeney Todd at Wes was my stay in Hell.

To quote my beloved Ellen, "You do realize that nothing you do is normal, right?"

It exists.

It's back.

And it now comes in Root Beer as well.

In college, my housemates had to do a Jolt! Cola intervention on me because I was going through half a case of it per day, minimum, staying up all night studying and writing. They forcibly sat me down, went into my room, and removed the four cases stashed under my bed.

I kind of miss those days.

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