Cow-related plot hooks.

This is brilliant.

Original:

https://x.com/regulustweets/status/1739807207087280191?t=mZLAqB3AJ_6FHnkv5DERtA&s=09

How to introduce your next toast.

 I'm adopting these with immediate effect.

This year's Christmas cake.

The red velvet Bundt cake from Christmas this year. I took all but two slices of it to work on the 27th. 

That tasty thing was not staying in my apartment.

Classic Red Velvet Bundt Cake

Cthulhu Dark AP 23 December 2023

Director Sue Savage returns to the Symphony to run A Winter Haunting for Cthulhu Dark! 

Join us December 1905 for an Edwardian ghost story in the style of M. R. James. 

Streaming LIVE at December 23 @ 3P EST on https://www.twitch.tv/symphonyentertainment

Lovecraft punk article revisions; Call of Cthulhu game, 1 p.m.; lemon brownies.

 

What I'm making

Lemon brownies, which is the best name for them, honestly, because they've got the consistency of brownies but the flavor of lemon. Pedanticism about this must be silenced. I'll take these to my cow-orkers tomorrow. One cannot have them floating around one's house (the brownies, not the cow-orkers).

What I'm doing at the moment

Revising the Lovecraft punk paper. The deadline is 1 August, not 31 August

hahaha oh god

What I'm doing this afternoon

Playing Call of Cthulhu with a new group. I'll be Florence Hawthorne, physics professor, who was doing some doctorate-level work at Columbia and had been consulting with a central NPC for this campaign when she realized the targeting system for the device they were jointly developing consisted of brass discs covered in strange symbols the NPC had gotten from dreams. Well, that's hardly scientific, now is it?

What I'm reading

Finishing Debord. I AM GOING TO FINISH DEBORD IF IT KILLS ME AND IT MIGHT.

What I'm reading/avoiding/doing, and a photo.

 

What I'm Reading

The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

"Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle: Are We Defined by How We Appear?", Klejton Cikaj

"Divine Violence and Liberated Territories," an interview with Slavoj Zizek

"The Case of  Cortázar’s House Taken Over," Pablo Lazo

What I'm Avoiding

Some major relationship matters.

What I'm Doing

Rejuvenating myself today via TTRPGs: I played Delta Green this morning/afternoon, then rolled up a character for a Down Darker Trails campaign I just joined. Related to that, I've very nearly caught up on the Discord servers I haunt but for a few of them, the usual suspects that I always leave to last and then never visit because I'm so far behind on them. 

Wake up, wake up...

 It's time for a refresh and a rethink of this blog.

Ripples from Carcosa is finished, Hippocampus Press has it in hand, and it's coming out in 2024. 

You know me, though. I'm still reading, writing, and researching.

I'm going to choose a new vibe for this blog, make notes on what others are doing with their outreach that sounds interesting and doable, and figure out what my next direction is.

Welcome back, everyone.