I’m a fan of chukkas and chelsea boots, but I hate when a front loop is added to boots

That first cover looks like it was designed by the same person who designed the crappy textbooks for the (mostly) crappy gen ed courses I took in community college in the ‘90s.

I had hoped that the long silence hadn’t meant what it seemed to mean, but I’m glad for the update even if it is a hard one.

And I’m also glad that other life events occurred during that time for both of you.

I hope you both know that your sharing of yourselves with us is a gift.

Didn't accomplish a huge word count today, but I got through one of the trickier sections to write.

Which is to say: I always appreciate your food recs.

I just found out about this a couple of months ago. 15+ years living in the upper midwest and they kept it from me until now: topthetater.com

(I don't disapprove of shorts wearing--I just prefer not to wear them myself. I think it's some ancestral cowboy thing where you don't wear shorts even if it's hot b/c you want to be protected from insects and sagebrush.)

This is a classic MN solution, but I don’t wear shorts out of the house.

fun!

I hate this, but I also love this

FWIW (b/c I will never read these novels so won't have more to say about them): I really liked the way you transitioned between each of the novels. Always love it when the structure reinforces the point.

I don't have any opinions on the Riddim other than to say that the EP series is the Teenage Engineering gear that seems most worth the price, but I can echo Arturo and say that playing around with music can be quite therapeutic for writers, esp. b/c it allows us to focus on the fun.

Oh, dang: "But these are not novels which really know technology, or have much to say about the human as a category in flux or under threat."