[Above photo: The landscaping is filling in nicely.]
‘Twas another busy week with naught to show for it except continued employment. So I have that going for me.
Reading
Still plugging away at The Reactionary Mind, which is still very good if unpleasant reading. I also pulled Moonbath by Haitian author Yanick Lahens off the shelf for some fiction to read in my evenings before bed. It is excellent so far, if heartbreaking.
Writing
Not much to show, writing-wise. I feel the urge to write, and the ideas are all lined up and ready to go, but I have not yet bridged the gap between wanting to write and actually sitting down and writing. I chalk that one up to burnout.
Subject: Death, Possession
Setting: Bar
Genre: War
Listening
Interesting Links
- “Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M’s Forever Chemicals” (ProPublica) – Seems to me the tenth takeaway is that anyone who has any kind of cancer at all should immediately begin a lawsuit against 3M, and force them to prove that their chemicals DIDN’T cause the cancer. The original story: “Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe“