It was lovely birthday, and I'm thankful for the folks I got to spend it with and for the folks who sent kind messages through cards, calls, and texts. I'm also exceedingly grateful for the regular multitude of blessings upon my back, especially for the days I've been allotted to spend topside.
Basement Missives
Weekend Warrior Yard Work Mode
Library 📚 Haul
Andrei Pechelin’s “Disco Elysium’s Post-Socialism Evokes Nostalgia and Melancholy”
Enjoyed reading Andrei Pechelin’s take on Disco Elysium which offers a perspective of the game through the eyes of someone who grew up in post-Soviet Union Russia.
Family Read-Aloud: Winnie the Pooh
Costco Boons
A Book Bargain For Today: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
Strange Dreams
Saturday evening, for the most part, is pizza night in the ol’ Purdy abode, and last weekend I must’ve ingested the right amount of cheese and peppers and green olives to make for one of most bizarre dreams I’ve ever experienced (that I can remember). I was staying in a mansion of the Xavier Institute … Continue reading Strange Dreams
Redwall’s Coming to Netflix
Imagine my delight then to learn that Netflix is adapting Redwall and then later Martin the Warrior into animated films
Launching a Gumroad Page: “Rests Like a Bastard Sword”
I've also taken the time today to set up a Gumroad page as a landing spot of sorts for independently publishing and selling some of the stories I'm working on. The first piece is a just-a-hair-past-nano piece of short fiction, "Rests Like a Bastard Sword," from my Short as Fictober 2019 endeavor.