May 28, 2022

My latest feelgood purchase: blazer turns to cardigan when hot liquid is in the mug. Gimmickry aside, it's nice to have more positive energy in my space.

 

May 11, 2022

I just checked my Amazon stats for the first time and my book's sales rank is 4,334,439 [sic], down 2,391 spots from yesterday. On the upside, the kindle edition is ranked 3,052,908, up 4,818 spots from yesterday. No clue what any of that means in terms of actual sales, except that I'll need a powerful telescope to see the bestsellers' list from either place.

 

May 3, 2022

I don't have one of these, but if I did, it would be doing this. (And make no mistake, my body is in the far right's cross hairs too.)

 

April 25, 2022

I just posted my new piece on Medium, and first in almost a year, about all the anti-trans garbage being shoved through red-state legislatures (PA's has tried, but hasn't to date succeeded), and why it's imperative that Dems and allies take the gloves off and start pushing back hard against it.  (NB: The image below is a screenshot, not a link.)

 

April 20, 2022

One thing the meteorological vagaries of the past few weeks have driven home to me: daffodils are badass.

 

April 15, 2022

I spent the better part of two hours this afternoon at the Carnegie Science Center's "Pompeii" exhibit. It did not disappoint. (Full disclosure: The fact that one chapter of my diss was devoted to Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii predisposed me to like it.)

Theatrical masks ancient and modern (the black one was not part of the exhibit)

 

Drinking vessels (I would really like one of those horn shaped glasses,

though I wonder if they make cupholders that could accommodate them)

 

 Lamps

 

 Marble versions of theatrical masks

 

 

A description of a popular seasoning of the day called garum (If you throw up

a little in your mouth reading it, I don't want to hear it—been there, done that)

April 6, 2022

It's hard to overstate the absurdity of the ending punctuation of this subject line.