Greenville woke up this morning to its first sub-60-degree overnight low of the season. Saints be praised. To celebrate, Acadia and I retired to the dog park for a few hours, me reading another Erik Larson book (Thunderstruck) and she reconnoitering the underbrush. We don’t count the first 15 minutes that she spent hiding inside […]
Here’s from the last chapter of Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness! … He had seen the last great moment fade, and even about that there had been something desperate and spasmodic, something that became unreal as soon as it was over, like the last rush of a dying carnivore or the last full exertion of physical strength […]
I spent a pleasant evening and morning after in the town of Appalachia, Virginia this weekend visiting a pirate named Gary. He runs an international pirate consortium that operates ’round-the-clock hoisting opera broadcasts out of the digital sea. The pirate named Gary says he tallies upwards of 150 such broadcasts himself every month and uses […]
