I wrote a thing!

You can read it here: http://standardissuemagazine.com/arts/here-come-the-girls/

I'm quite chuffed about it. Very little editing done to it, none of it onerous (just things to standardize to their style). It feels quite good to have written something that someone else has published, not felt the need to edit, and frankly, done it all in less than a week (though it was arranged about a month prior to that). Most of that week was spent trying to get images sorted out, anyway!

Go me! A positive start to a new year. May it be better than the shitstorm that was 2016.

Done

2016 fucking sucks. Get the hell out, and don't come back. I'm done with the shitstorm that is politics, war, and death of this year.

RIP Carrie Fisher

I'm With Her

The next white, hetero, middle-class, middle-aged, English-speaking male who decides to mansplain American politics to an American is going to be told to shove it where the sun don't shine.

I was told today that sexism isn't the main problem that's facing Hillary. By a colleague I like and respect, but who plays the video game of life on the easiest setting (see above) and thus doesn't get the inherent, endemic sexism that surrounds us.

Vote early, don't vote often because that's against the law, and frankly, vote Hillary. I'm With Her, because he's a dipshit who wants to set the world on fire just to watch it burn.

Also, Secretary Clinton is probably the most qualified person ON THE PLANET to govern a country. Just sayin'.

Reading List 2016: January/February

A new year, a better start? Doubtful. I'm starting this on the 7th, but will I actually publish around the 1st of February? (UPDATE: No.) Also, I realized that there are at least two books I read last year but never bothered to upload (I took photos for this purpose. And then deleted them.) One was R.L. Stine's Red Rain (yes, the kiddie horror author who did a good job with a creepy adult book), and the other was a Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl, I believe. But onto this year, and who knows what I've already missed.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY

1. Driving Heat, by "Richard Castle"
2. Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge (for reading group)
3. Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch (Peter Grant #5)
4. Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi
5. Mogworld, by Yahtzee Croshaw