Sitting Quietly With People

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, which means I'm in a whole other city visiting family and dogs and things. It's 1am and there's a dog who refuses to go to bed as long as one other person in the house is awake. I'm writing and getting this week's videos ready, and thinking about how my family is weird. It's not that strange, my understanding is that everyone's family has its quirks and oddities. Mine is that we sit quietly in rooms together. Hours can go by without anyone doing more than making polite conversation, whether in the house, over dinner, or in…

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Fever dreams

Down with the sickness this weekend, updating websites I haven't touched in far too long. I blame Rachel and Miles, who have haunted me all weekend. I even missed the poetry slam, on account of being Patient Zero for the next great epidemic. Despite all my sleeping, I made a thing. This isn't it, but it turns out pens bleed if you use them on napkins, and sometimes they make cool shapes. Writing feels good. Making things feels better. I'd rather do that than almost anything. Except Skyrim.

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So…I Stopped Eating Meat

This was my first week as a vegetarian. The moral argument finally got to me, but I'll get to that in this week's Concept Crucible, where we do the actual philosophy. For me it's been mostly adjusting the way I eat food, beans instead of bacon in the chili, new ideas for breakfasts and lunches. The physical adjustment hasn't been that hard, but the social adjustment is weird. I'm sort of embarrassed about it, from a vague worry that my meat-eating friends will question my validity, whatever that means, and my vegetarian friends will think I'm stupid for taking this long to…

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Free Comic Day!
Yep. I thought this was going places.

Free Comic Day!

Yesterday was Free Comic Book Day, which is basically the best invention for tiny nerds since articles without comment threads. The door of my local comic shop, normally catering to people in their 30’s with Funko Pop and Snake Plisskin action figures, was crowded with cosplayers and children as young as four, picking up their free comics. Stormtroopers posed with kids, and the Predator waved at passing cars. It was truly magical.

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Ia Ia Ithaqua
Greetings from Camp Ithaqua

Ia Ia Ithaqua

We're at Camp Ithaqua this weekend, named for the Elder God of the frozen north. Basically we rented a cottage and played boardgames and rpgs all weekend. Good times are had by all. It's been neat to share space and get to know people, but I am literally leaving in a few minutes. Done all sorts of talking about everything from the symbolic world to why good people are interesting because they create good stories, as well. Also, we've got a few videos up on the channel from the camp. Being grownups is rad. That's really what it comes down…

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