I should just try to take it easier this month. I mean, there’s still stories to finish, but it’s Christmas and I do get to have something like a vacation. I can’t be on all the time – and this month, apparently I can’t be on all the time, whether I want to be, or not.
Need to listen to my body and head more, I guess.
Thought I’d put up a couple.
It was low-key, and fun. My wife wanted us to get out more this Christmas, and do stuff, and as usual she had a smart idea. It was a very nice night for December, and watching the kids all have a good time was cheering. It was also funny when our county executive started doing his bits in the proceedings, because he was clearly the only one in the group who knew how to use a microphone. It’s a real skill.
The full title is Love and Capes: Home For the Holidays. For those who aren’t familiar: LOVE AND CAPES was a superhero comic that I read regularly, back in the day. Thom Zahler finished up the run, I lost track, the Great Reset of 2020 happened… but I clicked on an errant link today to see if he was back, and he is! Kinda. Selling print comics now.
Oh, well, you need to support artists.
Just 99 cents this week! Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower is set in the same world as FROZEN DREAMS and TINSEL RAIN, this sprawling anthology stretches over 900 years of future post-apocalyptic fantasy history! There are ten stories, including several never before published; and, for fans of FROZEN DREAMS, there’s a new novelette starring Tom Vargas. The book is also available in paperback for a couple of bucks off, but that’s Amazon’s doing, not mine.
#commissionearned
Starting now is the time when we prepare for Christmas itself. Cleaning, last-minute shopping, present-wrapping, the whole shebang: the kids are still in school, which will help, but there’s stuff to do from now until Sunday. I’ll be posting stuff, but the holidays beckon.
Done before Christmas Eve, too. WHAT SORCERY IS THIS
…Seriously, it’s weird to get this done ahead of time. Pleasant, but weird. But now we can spend tomorrow preparing for all the other stuff. Like the meal: Christmas dinner is going to be a New York Strip Roast. I didn’t want to do a standing rib roast because there’s only going to be the two of us eating it… and then I was seduced by the strip roast, because it looked so nice at the butcher’s, so what could I do but buy it uncut?
Now I have to convince myself not to get overly fancy with it. We have the roast, asparagus, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. That’s fine for Christmas dinner. That’s fine.
My attention… has been acquired.
GeekTyrant detected a Die Hard vibe: I can see that, but there’s also a Lethal Weapon theme going on here, because Hawkeye is visibly deciding that he’s getting Too Old For This Sh*t. I also give points for there being a Broadway musical about Captain America in the MCU, because of course there would be one. They missed a bet there, though, in not getting Chris Evans to play the actor playing Cap in the musical. Farce is its own justification.
Moe Lane
PS: Kate Bishop apparently isn’t coming into this already being perfect in every way, which is nice. “Cocky 22 year old hotshot who still needs seasoning” is a perfectly cromulent archetype for a superheroine.
And/or Happy Holidays.
Christmas is, after all, in little less than two weeks. The big thing’s already gotten; but I need to look at the little things. The kids have had a rough year being cooped up like this, after all.
…Yeah. The ‘kids.’ That’s what I meant, ya, you betcha.
