Well! Well! Well, I just simply do not know what to say about *waves hands* all this, except that we are at the end of a second week of Definitely Crisis Mode, and everyone but me seems to be making bread. An admirable goal! Drop into the comments and let me know what else you’re doing to get by. My two main things are listening to “Back to Before,” a Broadway standard from a musical I don’t know, watching The Repair Shop on Netflix, and coloring in my coloring app, which is called Happy Color (it’s worth investing in the…
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Empress of Salt and Fortune slaps. I review books and I am very professional and Empress of Salt and Fortune fucking slaps. I could honestly end this post here. You would believe me, right? You would just read The Empress of Salt and Fortune based on that! Plus this gorgeous cover! Chih, a cleric from the Singing Hills abbey, has come with their ?familiar? to Thriving Fortune, where they meet an elderly woman with stories to tell about the Empress of Salt and Fortune, who once lived in exile in Thriving Fortune. The elderly woman, Rabbit, offers Chih and their…
Leave a CommentDo you think Friday the 13th still counts when there’s a global pandemic on? Or do you think we all get a bye on Friday the 13th bad luck because we’re having such terrible luck already? Either way, the important thing is that we all have enough Tylenol and reading material, so pop into the comments and let me know what you’re reading and how it’s treating you. I myself am reading Realm of Ash, by Tasha Suri, and it’s treating me real real good. And now, on to the links! Tumblr’s not dead — no! It is aliiiiiiiive! China…
Leave a CommentOrdinarily I’m all in favor of Leap Year, because it’s cool to just have an extra day. But honestly, do we want an extra day anymore? Don’t we have enough days? Don’t the days keep coming at us like rats to a granary, like field mice when there’s harvest home? Let’s just get through this Leap Year, and before you know it, we will be past it and the year will resume having the normal number of days. And we will MAKE IT THROUGH. Here are some links to help us reach that time. There is a new little Book…
Leave a CommentAva has organized her work schedule at Not!IKEA to avoid any contact with her ex, Jules, and she is therefore deeply resentful of being called in to sub on a day she was supposed to have off. Of course, she’s sharing a shift with Jules, and it’s awkward as fuck. To make matters worse, a customer’s grandmother goes missing in the depths of the store, and it becomes pretty obvious that she’s disappeared into a wormhole. As the two newest employees, Ava and Jules are tapped to go chasing through the multiverse together to find the missing woman. My favorite…
Leave a CommentHappy Wednesday, friends! Because we took December off, we never got to co-watch The Knight Before Christmas, but are we deterred from watching a Christmas movie by the mere fact of its not being Christmas? We absolutely are not! If linear time can abandon us entirely in these dark times, then we can surely watch a made-for-TV Christmas romcom in February. It is… an experience. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 127 Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin…
Leave a CommentMy first link is from The Boston Review, and I just think it’s a good time to appreciate The Boston Review for all the terrific, interesting, thoughtful writing that it publishes. Great job, editors. Keep up the good work. You are doing brilliantly. “To celebrate what was good and criticize what was lacking in the American Revolution were two sides of the same civic coin. Both were necessary for political reasons, but not least because both were true.” On the historians’ debate over The 1619 Project. To nobody’s surprise, the Catholic Church continues to resist transparency on child abuse by…
1 CommentLana has returned to New York after years away, hoping to pursue restaurant work after spending oodles of time learning to make noodles. (You see, I have done a little wordplay there.) Meanwhile, her ex-husband Simon is planning to leave behind his inherited, rent-controlled, teensy-weensy apartment in favor of something new. When they cross paths for the first time in years, they must unwillingly admit that splitting the rent on a beautiful railroad-style apartment in Harlem makes pretty good sense. And moving in together leads them to face the things about them that have changed, and the things that have…
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