Remember when you could pop over to Amazon, fairly certain you’d be able to pick up a used copy of that book you want for £0:01p ? Why can’t we do that anymore?
I went to a poetry reading tonight and found out Angela Davis is speaking in town next month. What a treat! For context, I live in a city town of about 40,000 people, 85% white (thought it would be over 95% tbh), so this is unexpectedly awesome.
Decided to just roll with it and let my characters have rune-powered wands. Result? I'm enjoying what I'm writing. I guess the lesson here is to just give yourself permission to write whatever you want. That permission silences your inner-critic/inner-self doubt. Give yourself permission. Want to have elves, dragons, and wizards? Go for it. Want to have talking dinosaurs in space? Sure, why not. Write what works for your story. End of discussion. Don't plagiarize, of course, but all the basic stuff has been done before -- but not by you. Give yourself permission, 'cause you're the one writing this thing. So get to it, my lovelies!
Someone just walked past me wearing the same perfume as an early and significant girlfriend of mine... Oh man
I’m pretty sure my local theater chain is a front for a money-laundering operation or something. I bought a ticket for the new Nicholas Cage movie for $9 (they used to be $10–somehow prices have dropped $1 with inflation at its highest rate in years) which I think is like half the national average. The theater was empty, and it nearly always is at least almost empty. A few weeks ago I went to see the Godfather and tickets were free? The girl at the ticket counter was as confused as I was. Every time I go in there it seems like there are more employees in the building than patrons.
I think it'd be tough to launder money through a movie theater. Seats and show times are quantifiable and easy to audit. Vending machines and auto-repair shops used to be the jam up in Providence. And restaurants and clubs. Still quite a few of them that I know about.
I wonder about The Godfather. My local cinema chain runs morning classic movies, only in the ~9:00 am showing, and The Godfather was the film for the last week of March. Might be some sort of campaign going (for god knows what reason) for that one. Of course, if it is money laundering, what better film than the one that defined the mafia for a generation or more?
There is a sushi joint locally that I suspect is using trafficked labor. The wait staff is all Asian, and the turnover is such that in the half dozen times I was there over a couple of years I never saw the same waiters twice.
When I was a working musician we played a "laundry" once in a while. There was no way that I could see to justify the cost of hiring the group (five singers, four of us in the backing band) to play a small club to 20 or 30 people. Several of the men who ran the club were very nicely dressed with suspicious bulges under their suits.
My Face When I realize: - The video/audio was on the entire time - My bowels are about to explode and I can't go to the restroom - My boss tells me to pipe it down from the next room 'cause my singing was disturbing him on his call - When the world's going to collective shit and I'm stuck with it to however it ends - A snide comment under breath was, in fact, heard - I forgot it was Thursday, not Friday - I ain't got no defense
Don't know where this might fit, I did not want to start a new thread for it, so here goes: I made a post in another community asking for a specific book that had all the stuff that is currently in my own book world. (Just to see if there was anyone who have done the shit I am about to do before me.) And the first respone I get is that it sounds awesome and that I should write it. Lol.
In 1995, Texas had a hail storm with stones the size of cricket balls. I don’t know what they’re complaining about. How big could a cricket’s balls be?
