This makes it funny

[sovay]

So the news today has been almost exhaustively upsetting and I've been amply warned it's going to get worse tomorrow. This is a terrible progression. Here is a handful of things that did not upset me:

1. Clockwork Phoenix 5 made the Locus Recommended Reading List.

2. Alan Turing is no longer alone in his posthumous pardon.

3. This is true (barring use of the word "dating," which I have never used outside of those rare times in my life when I was on an actual date) and also I like the layout:



4. derspatchel and I managed to get out of the house on a grocery run and came back with bags of produce such as have been missing from our kitchen for ages and cooked Not Even Faintly Authentic Beef Stroganoff, which involved steak and shallots and bratwurst and mushrooms and sour cream and dill and egg noodles and not enough caraway and we might have hurt ourselves splitting it between us, but we have agreed to reget nothing. Autolycus eyed me with jealousy as I licked my plate clean.

5. No cat of our household has vomited today!

I don't feel like I can think anymore. It's bad. I need my brain for all sorts of reasons. The fascists can't have it.

Comments

[sovay]

Here is something I think will not upset you (apart from not being able to get to Winston-Salem)

That is not upsetting! Let me know how the biography is.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am now something over a quarter of the way through, and regretting reading it on Kobo, because my lord is this book repetitive, and I am better at skimming on paper. Some of it honestly reads as if they printed the crossed-out bits in the draft alongside the rewritten ones. I've been told at least twelve times that Stanwyck favored Hoover over Roosevelt. Maddening, because it's got a lot of really interesting stuff in it.

[sovay]

Some of it honestly reads as if they printed the crossed-out bits in the draft alongside the rewritten ones. I've been told at least twelve times that Stanwyck favored Hoover over Roosevelt. Maddening, because it's got a lot of really interesting stuff in it.

I'm so sorry! You'd think a book with an editor wouldn't suffer from this problem. [edit] What is some of the interesting stuff?