I was hesitating between "Needless melodrama" and "must commit sepukku on CSPAN". If you prefer "needless melodrama", I can make the necessary changes.
We made Simon's Pinewood Derby car and finished middle of the pack.
I have accepted now that I'm not my dad, and my dad may have helped me make the fastest car and win first, but I am not that guy. Next year, we're going to make something goofy and elaborate and just try and have more fun making the car together.
Sunday, we went to the Arboretum. We took a friend's kid who is obsessed with trains and checked out the indoor model train setup they have in winter. That was nice.
Then I read. And read. And read. I read more yesterday than I read last month total. It was good.
I finished All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, which was terrific. Kind of a loopy Vonnegut-like story about a guy who is from 2016, but not *our* 2016... he's from the really awesome 2016 we were promised in science fiction. And then, while using a time machine to go back and watch the invention of the amazing device that provides his world with limitless, nearly free energy, he instead fucks that moment up, creating the craptacular world we live in instead.
Then I read the majority of All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, which is an odd little book from last year's Tournament of Books list about a war between magic and science... only instead of that being the kind of piffle you'd get on SyFy, this is more a literary novel that uses that as a framework for looking at how we see the future. Also good.
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Stoned wallabies make crop circles
Cash Rivers and the Sinners - Goddamn Lookit My Phone Got Wet
I was mostly sick. Watched more Black Mirror and the football games.
S___ went to NYC yesterday. She's doing some panel discussions at a digital media conference up there.
It's weird to spend an entire day not uttering a single word out loud.
I have accepted now that I'm not my dad, and my dad may have helped me make the fastest car and win first, but I am not that guy. Next year, we're going to make something goofy and elaborate and just try and have more fun making the car together.
Sunday, we went to the Arboretum. We took a friend's kid who is obsessed with trains and checked out the indoor model train setup they have in winter. That was nice.
Then I read. And read. And read. I read more yesterday than I read last month total. It was good.
Then I read the majority of All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, which is an odd little book from last year's Tournament of Books list about a war between magic and science... only instead of that being the kind of piffle you'd get on SyFy, this is more a literary novel that uses that as a framework for looking at how we see the future. Also good.
My favourite tellytubby.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88