Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.

Also,

Monday, January 19, 2026

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3990 - My Birthday - David Bowie called himself "The Luckiest Guy" - Me, too


A Sense of Doubt blog post #3990 - My Birthday - David Bowie called himself "The Luckiest Guy" - Me, too

This post is two days late because I took off this day, Monday, my birthday, also MLK Day, and did very little except talk to friends and family, have a birthday dinner brought by my step daughter and her partner and read comics while watching basketball.

It was a good day, though I would have liked MORE TIME reading comics. I only read five comics. At least, eight is a good day, not counting when I speed read like 20 comics. After all, I did just get the box of comics from Michigan.

This is what I read:
Fantastic Four #006 [Legacy #732]
Ultimate Spider-Man #023
Something is Killing the Children #020
Aquaman #013
DIE 2 Loaded #002

Pistons won.
Golden State won, even though Jimmy Butler suffered a torn ACL and is out for the season.

No cake, but that's okay, I am supposed to be limiting sweets.

Some reprints in this post as I continue BOWIE MONTH, so this one:

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Because the "I am the luckiest guy" line stands out, and despite many challenges in 2025, I feel like the luckiest guy.

And this one, with a great deal of birthday content.

Monday, January 20, 2025

Thanks for tuning in.


Bowie Tik Tok Vid performing "The Loneliest Guy"



David Bowie called himself the "luckiest guy" because he felt blessed to have lived a full, creative life, unlike blues legend Robert Johnson who died young, and he expressed this sentiment in his poignant song "The Loneliest Guy" from the Reality album, where he contrasts the world's isolation with his personal fortune. 
Key Aspects of Bowie's "Luckiest Guy" Sentiment:
  • Appreciation for Longevity: In an interview, Bowie contrasted his prolific career with Robert Johnson, who only had one album's worth of work.
  • Artistic Fulfillment: He saw his life as rich with experiences and creative output, acknowledging his good fortune in having the chance to create and evolve.
  • The Song "The Loneliest Guy": The line "But I'm the luckiest guy" appears in the lyrics of this introspective song, offering a powerful juxtaposition to feelings of isolation, as noted on Spotify, Genius, and Pushing Ahead of the Dame, notes Wikipedia, and DAVID BOWIE WONDERWORLD.
  • A Reflection of His Later Life: This feeling of being fortunate, even amidst potential loneliness, resonated with his reflective later career and final album, Blackstar. 

The Loneliest Guy

The Loneliest Guy.
The Loneliest Guy (live, 2003).
The Loneliest Guy (Parkinson, 2003).
The Loneliest Guy (live, 2004).

“A very despairing piece of work,” Bowie said of “The Loneliest Guy” in 2003. Its subject is “a guy qualifying his entirely hermetic, isolated existence by saying ‘actually I’m a lucky guy. I’m not really alone—I just have myself to look after.'”

This type, a man cooped in his room and subsisting on art and memory, is a constant in Bowie’s writing. Go back through the songs and his sad face keeps turning up. The failed artist/academic who lives above an Austrian grocer; the man who carries a razor in case of depression; the coked-up magus trapped in his circle, overlooking the ocean; the assorted shut-ins of Low, like the girl with grey eyes and the man in the electric blue room; old Algeria Touchshriek. If one end of the Bowie spectrum is the charismatic on stage, the “Loneliest Guy” is the other: Bowie’s deep ultraviolet range. An isolate, a man unable to communicate, to get out of his head; one who expires for lack of an audience.

This wan, lonely character was as “real” as any Ziggy Stardust archetype, and as much of an autobiographical figure that Bowie ever offered. Talking to Anthony DeCurtis in 2003, he said that finally, in high middle age and having become a parent again, “[I] don’t have that sense of loneliness that I had before, which was very, very strong. It became a subtext for a lot of the things I wrote.”

So “The Loneliest Guy” sloughs off an old self, or does it? The man who said everything was in its place, who was utterly content, was perhaps projecting a bit. The “loneliest guy” here flicks through old pictures on his hard drive, poisoned by brighter memories (“the notion that our ideas are inhabited by ghosts and that there’s nothing in our philosophy—that all the big ideas are empty containers” (see “Reality”)). Had he really been boxed up at last? If so, what would it mean for Bowie’s songwriting, when the self closest to his muse was no longer in service?

anarchitekton

In the same interview (with Interview), Bowie began to ramble through his thoughts, offering a taste of the sort of thing he tells his musicians, like “think Impressionism” to a saxophone player. He said his loneliest guy lives in a decayed, empty place, “a city taken over by weeds.” In particular, he lives in Brasilia, the modernist artificial city, built from scratch in the Sixties to be the center of Brazilian government and commerce. The city of a future that never quite came, its neighborhoods built in grids, its squares full of modernist stadiums and concert halls. It was Godard’s Alphaville in the Brazilian highlands. For art critics like Robert Hughes, Brasilia was “miles of jerry-built platonic nowhere infested with Volkswagens. This, one may fervently hope, is the last experiment of its kind. The utopian buck stops here.”

Brasilia was “the perfect standard for an empty, godless universe,” Bowie said. “The architect Oscar Niemeyer designed all these places thinking that they were going to be filled with millions of people and now there are about 200,000 people living there, so the weeds and the grass are growing back up through the stones of this brilliantly modernistic city. It’s a set of ideas…being taken back over again by the jungle.”

This wasn’t really true about Brasilia.* It suggested more Bowie’s old rotting Hunger City, the modernist grid turned dystopian playground, or the capitalist wasteland of “Thru’ These Architect’s Eyes.” This aside, the metaphor of a rotting Brasilia, a great modernist plan being eaten by nature, works as a description of the track itself. “The Loneliest Guy” is a song collapsing from within, moving as if sleep-stung, occasionally rousing to life, then guttering out again. Take how its remote E-flat minor key is woken by bright intrusions from E major (“steam (E) under floor (Ebm)”). The song yearns to pull free in its third verse (“all the pages that have turned...”) until a Eb minor chord snuffs out the coup (on a precisely-timed “oh”).

It’s such a lugubrious song, and Bowie’s character is such a colossal sad sack, that its miseries border on the darkly comical. It calls to mind Steve Martin’s The Lonely Guy, set in a New York where lonelyhearts congregate on city roofs to holler their exes’ names, who eat dinner alone with a spotlight trained on them and who politely queue on the Manhattan Bridge to jump into the East River.

Flavored by waves of David Torn’s atmospherics (it’s possible Bowie thought of the Pretty Things’ “Loneliest Person,” built on arpeggiated acoustic guitar), the song was built on Mike Garson’s piano. During the Reality sessions in New York, Garson played Yamaha digital piano (owned by Bowie, and loaned to Garson during the 2003-04 tour), then went home to California with the MIDI files to re-cut his parts on “my 9-foot Yamaha Disklavier, recording as [the MIDI] played back,” Garson recalled to Mix. So at mixing, Bowie and Visconti could choose between “synthetic” or “real” Yamaha on each track and picked analog for this one.

It was one of the most gorgeously-recorded of the Reality tracks, with the guitars serving as a string section, Garson’s chords resounding into deep space and Bowie hanging upon every note he sings, as if he can’t bear to let them go.

Recorded: (lead guitars, lead and backing vocals, overdubs) March-May 2003, Looking Glass Studios, New York; (piano) ca. March-April 2003, Garson’s home studio, Bell Canyon, CA. Released 16 September 2003 on Reality.

* As per the 2010 IBGE census, over 2.4 million people live in Brasilia, making it the fourth-largest city in the country.

Top: Konstantin Maximov, “Copenhagen,” 2003; Jordi Colomer, Anarchitekton: Brasilia (2003).

Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Tuesday, February 2, 2016


The Daily Bowie #13 - "The Loneliest Guy"

"All the pages that have turned
All the errors left unlearned..."


Link to Wikipedia - REALITY, the 2003 album

Link to Wiki on "The Loneliest Guy"

Margaret Cho also wrote in her compilation of essays and prose I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (2005) that she likes many Bowie songs, "and the new songs from the Reality album, a new favorite being 'The Loneliest Guy.' It's almost too much to ask for, the ageless, timeless, faultless, flawless Bowie in a vocal storm of versatility [...]"





from Reality

℗ Under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, ℗ 2003 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC

Vocals: David Bowie
Acoustic Piano: Bill Jenkins
Additional Engineer: Brandon Mason
Backing Vocals: Catherine Russell
Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Synthesizer: David Bowie
Producer: David Bowie
Baritone Saxophone: David Bowie
Stylophone Synthesizer: David Bowie
Backing Vocals: David Bowie
Guitar: David Torn
Guitar: Earl Slick
Mastering Engineer: Emily Lazar
Backing Vocals: Gail Ann Dorsey
Guitar: Gerry Leonard
Additional Engineer: Mario McNulty
Bass, Guitar: Mark Plati
Piano: Mike Garson
Drums: Sterling Campbell
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards: Tony Visconti
Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Tony Visconti
Backing Vocals: Tony Visconti
Writer: David Bowie

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David Bowie performs 'The Loneliest Guy' live on Michael Parkinson's BBC chat show in 2003 in support of his twenty-fourth studio album 'Reality'. Bowie is accompanied on piano by longtime collaborator Mike Garson, and on guitar by Gerry Leonard, who both played on the studio recording.



"The Loneliest Guy"

Streets damp and warm
Empty smell metal
Weeds between buildings
Pictures on my hard drive
But I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy

Steam under floor
Shards by the mirrors frame
Clouds green and low
No sign, no nothing now
But I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy

All the pages that have turned
All the errors left unlearned, oh
Well I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy
In the world
Not me
Not me



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Original link to post I am reprinting below:

Monday, January 20, 2025




A Sense of Doubt blog post #3624 - My Birthday 2025 - Various Reprints

Even though this picture appears in one of the reprints below, and I just reprinted it in August, I am using it again here for the topper. I don't have that many pictures of my Dad with me on my birthday. Though I am hopeful that there are more in the boxes of family photos I had sent from Michigan.

The above photo is the last birthday before Lori is born.

And last year's birthday, reprinted below, is my last before my Dad died, making this the first birthday with no parents. I am still trying to wrap my mind around that.

I am not sure if I will ever wrap my mind around my parents being gone. Rationally, I knew it would happen someday. Emotionally, I did not feel that it would ever happen, I was not ready, and it's something I wanted to avoid. Much like how I feel about our dogs.

I had planned to spend today, my birthday, the entire day, reading comics, watching football, and relaxing. Instead, I had to finish an assignment that was due for my grad school where I am a student. But I delayed this blog and other tasks, finished by noon, and read NINETEEN comic books, which may be a record for non-speed reading. Sometimes I burn through a big stack of back log on these days, but I am literally flipping through the comics. I actually READ, word-for-word, nearly twenty comics. Usually I manage about eight-ten. Usually I do not start so early.

It's Monday as I write this: MLK Day, Inauguration Day -- mixed emotions.

Now it's a day to catch up.

Speaking of ketchup, it's also time for breakfast.

I collected a lot of links last year of birthday content, so it makes sense to reprint, plus the post featuring the picture above of me and my Dad, plus the post of my first birthday with a Hodge Podge of other cool items. Seems a fitting collection for my birthday.

Mom, Dad, I miss you so very, very much.

Thanks for tuning in.


REPRINTING THESE THREE BLOG POSTS

Saturday, August 31, 2024


Thursday, February 22, 2018






1966

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3258 - My Birthday 2024

This year on my blog on my birthday instead of reprints just links and a few pictures from times gone by.

I am writing this post the day after my birthday and sending it back in time.

It was a good birthday.

I took the day off work and relaxed.

I read and napped with the new puppy.

I was baked a delicious lemon cake, unexpected as I had said I did not need a cake (I am so much like my Dad sometimes), and we had DOOR DASH from the Thai place in Woodland. And I still have both as leftovers.

We watched Killers of the Flower Moon, which was REALLY long and good, though not great.

I would have preferred to watch something else.

But then I get the Lions game in two days (tomorrow from the point of this writing). 

I don't want to jinx them, but I so want them to win.

Thanks for tuning in.




SENSE OF DOUBT BIRTHDAY LINKS

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Friday, January 19, 2018

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Tuesday, January 19, 2016


This next link is not specifically a post on the day of my birth, but it is an archive of all the pictures I could find (there's more in boxes at my sister's) of the cakes my father decorated. Some really gorgeous work in frosting!!

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Though my birthday is not in the title of the next link, during the T-shirt blog year, this was the post from my birthday.

Sunday, January 19, 2014


PHOTOS!!

My cake this year, my 8th birthday, might be a list of all the boys in the Cub Scott troop of which my mother was the Den mother and my Dad the Pack master.

1970



Birthday 1973 with friend Jeb Jacobs
please not the Alfred E, Neumann cake



1974 - Captain America Cake



1969 - the pic of the cake in the archive blog post is not easy to identify

1971 - Hulk cake!
Is that my Dad's first cake creation?






MORE FROM 1973

I believe I am holding a yo-yo in the photo below.

No, I did not get a Raggedy Ann game for my birthday. We always got one present on the other child's birthday, so that game was my sisters present.

Hey, look, the fish tank!

It's 1973, so I am not surprised to get the Peace bumper sticker.

Can yo spot Michael Jackson's album, the soundtrack to the movie Ben?

The tape recorder was a big deal for me as an aspiring singer (at that time).

I was really into Mad Magazine, which is why this is the year of the Alfred E. Neumann cake.



I suspect that this picture is from Easter, not my birthday


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A Sense of Doubt blog post #3483 - Hey Mom Reprint of #723 - January 1969

Still catching up; still in reprint mode. Still in processing mode.

Still repeating as a mantra to have an open heart and be patient with myself.

This picture was my last birthday as an only child. My sister was born in August of 1969. This is the last (planned for now) reprint of the seven years before I had a sister.

Thanks for tuning in.

This is a reprint.

Original post.

Thursday, June 29, 2017



Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #723 - Me and Dad - My 7th Birthday - Jan. 1969 Throwback Thursday 1706.29 - photo series one #25 - Talking Again - Conversations #12

Hi Mom,

At first, I thought this was a black and white photo. But then I saw the yellow on the clown candle, and I realized that this is just a very washed out color photo. I do not have that many pictures of Dad let alone me and Dad as he was usually taking the picture. This picture is from the Schoolcraft house, which I barely remember at all. I have lost a lot of details of it, and I am not sure we have that many pictures of it, inside or out.

I cannot make it much of the food on the table. Was I into scalloped potatoes yet at 7 years? Is that corn and some other vegetable in the double dish? Did I like spinach yet? And what's on the big tray? I somehow doubt I was a steak eater at seven. And that would be  A LOT of steak.

I like seeing that I am already in my pajamas.

So, that's the photo analysis, Mom. Hi again. Time for some conversations as I pledged to return to the stream of consciousness talking to you thing, which is the whole point of this blog in the first place.

I didn't finish this on the day it's date and time stamped (June 29th). It's now June 30th.

I will probably keep this one somewhat short as there's lots to do today.

So, I shared this content in an email about getting our house ready to sell:


Painting is more or less done with still one thing for next week. Shower may not be installed until after the house sells. Chimney cap is on. Looks nice. We're working hard on situating and getting ready to show. I wanted to truck a bunch of stuff to Dad's with a trailer this week, but I had a huge mix up with U-Haul. I am concerned about the much smaller sq footage of our new home and the lack of a basement. So Dad is getting a lot of stuff that I may ultimately keep, if I have space, or get ride of when I visit. My first few visits will be dealing with my stuff. But I am already culling out things to get rid of. I am taking comics to Fanfare today. Not many, but some. It's all a process.

The painting has been the best and smartest thing we did. It really looks great.

And then, in another email, a friend asked if I will graduate and the status of my schooling. Here's what I wrote:


I will not graduate. I was never for sure getting another degree. Mainly, I was taking classes to go to grad school, which I may do, but for now, I am going off the traditional education route and plan to hit a MOOC and then a coding boot camp and then, yeah, try for one of the many coding jobs in the Pacific NW. Even though I am not in class now, I am working with a tutor to make sure I know C and Java. Then I am hitting Python and Javascript and maybe Ruby/Ruby on Rails. It's all the same, really, just different lingo. Computers are just all input-output. That's really all it is.


But yeah. the hope is that if we make enough of the sale of this house to send me to Coding Dojo, then I land a sweet job and we are not house poor and suffering the higher cost of living. 

I could go on at length, but I need to be done with this entry.

Sure, I have tons to share, but this is a short "phone" conversation, Mom.

But in recap, I did take the comics to Fanfare and earned some nice store credit. I had a good outcome with the dental work. I had a nice therapy appointment talking about how I am managing stress, which I am doing fairly well.

I will write more next week. Next Tuesday is the two year anniversary of your death; next Thursday, the next Throwback Thursday, will be the two year anniversary of starting this blog feature writing to you, Mom.

That feels significant.

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #962 - Random Thoughts and First Birthday - Throwback Thursday for 1802.22


Hi Mom,

Random thoughts today and a picture.

So, Mom, here, I am with another picture of us for Throwback Thursday.
I did not post one last week, but I knew I was going to get back to it today.

I have about as many birthdays behind me as ahead of me (at least I hope so), and I have lots of birthday pictures, which are going to be posted throughout the year and not just on January 19th.

These are pictures from my first birthday, and the beginning of the Tower special tradition of art cakes. I am thinking this cake may depict may be Howdy Doody, but I am waiting confirmation.
Okay, it may or may not be Howdy Doody. Dad said it was just his first attempt at making a decorated and special art cake.



THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

I know you know this, Mom, and others who read me closely or know me know of this as well, but I watch the Young and The Restless as I always did with you, Mom. It's on at 11 a.m. here, though I no longer watch much of anything as a "live" broadcast and not a recording.

Recently, I caught up on Young and The Restless programs, which I can play while I work on the things I have to do which are mindless, which are around 50% of my work each week. At one point, I had 40 some unwatched episodes, so catching up is a HUGE accomplishment.

Anyway, BIG NEWS. You would love this news, Mom.

Young and the Restless NEWS - THREE CLASSIC CHARACTERS RETURN

The characters of Lorie and Leslie Brooks and Victor's first wife Julia will all return to Genoa City canvas the week of March 26th as part of the show's 45th year anniversary reunion. It's mind boggling to me that this show has been a part of my life for that many years. But it has.

Also, this...

MELISSA CLAIRE EGAN leaves Young and the Restless

READING

I finished Binti: The Night Masquerade last night, which was my traditional reading book. I also finished Paul Cornell's London Falling, as my audio book, and immediately started the second Shadow Police book -- The Severed Streets.

Nnedi Okorafor's Binti books are some of the best books and science fiction books I have read this decade! I plan more substantial reviews of them soon.

Paul Cornell's SHADOW POLICE books are good and fun and very British-centric.

I learned the meanings of "nick" in Brit slang, which in addition to being a synonym for steal can mean both the Police HQ and the act of arresting: "you've been nicked."

Nick in British slang.

The police procedure stuff gets a bit tiresome, but the characterization of the witch and descriptions associated with it were GREAT.



SLASHDOT

Yesterday, I decided to submit a story to SLASHDOT.

As I shared before for those who so not know SLASHDOT:

What is this?

This is Slashdot, a website based on and running the Slashdot-Like Automated Story-Telling Homepage software. You're reading the FAQ.

Who does this?

Slashdot was created in 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it's owned by BIZX, LLC. Slashdot is run primarily by a handful of editors and coders, with the help of many others. As of April 2016, the Slashcode is wrangled and taunted by Drew ("SlashDrew") Kroft. The editors are Beau ("BeauHD") Hamilton, Manish ("manishs") Singh, David ("EditorDavid"), and Logan ("whipslash") Abbott.

What does the name "Slashdot" mean?


"Slashdot" is an intentionally obnoxious URL. When Rob registered the domain http://slashdot.org, he wanted a URL that was confusing when read aloud. (Try it!)
So, in my morning reading, I spied a story worthy of posting on Futurism

I wrote the story and figured out from Slashdot's limited information what it intends for use of html to create links in the story when submitted.

Not only was my story accepted, but it made the front page and with very little editing. Here's the edited version, which is what I wrote up to the word "exist" and the rest is added by the editor. I considered adding that material for context, but I was heeding warnings about brevity. Next time I do a story, I will add a bit more context as in this example.

The submission guidelines warn writers that not all stories are accepted and even fewer make the front page. Mine managed both with my first submission!! I am proud.

This was my first attempt to increase my online presence more visibly and to contribute. Another step is to contribute to an open source code project. I am also determined to write more fiction and hope to produce a short story soon and try to get it published. But then. I have said that before. I have many goals, and I do not seem to have enough hours in the day for all of them.

Regardless, here's my SLASHDOT story:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/02/22/2121221/elon-musk-steps-down-from-ai-safety-group-to-avoid-conflict-of-interest-with-tesla

Elon Musk Steps Down From AI Safety Group To Avoid Conflict of Interest With Tesla


Posted by BeauHD  from the conflict-of-interest dept

New submitter the gmr writes:According to an announcement on the OpenAI blog, Elon Musk has stepped down from the board of directors of the nonprofit AI safety group, which he co-founded in 2015, due potential conflict of interest with his company Tesla. As explained in a post on Futurism, the move away from OpenAI may indicate that Tesla may be moving forward with more AI projects than most people may realize. Musk's departure may mean that Tesla is closer to delivering vehicles capable of Level 5 autonomy, "fully self-driving" vehicles that more than 35,000 Tesla customers paid for even though the technology does not yet exist."Elon Musk will depart the OpenAI Board but will continue to donate and advise the organization," the announcement reads. "As Tesla continues to become more focused on AI, this will eliminate a potential future conflict for Elon." The OpenAI board of directors now consists of Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Holden Karnofsky, and Sam Altman, with whom Musk co-founded the venture. The company reportedly plans to not only fill Musk's seat but expand their team as well. 

"Open AI has also been a prominent voice in the conversation concerning the limitations, challenges, and potential dangers of artificial intelligence," reports Futurism. "Just this week, the company co-released a report with a number of other global AI experts that outlines the potential 'malicious' uses of the technology and how to prevent them."






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NEBULA AWARD NOMINATIONS HAPPENED, and so this is a reading list, especially for the short fiction, especially given the short story writing goal that I just mentioned.

https://www.tor.com/2018/02/20/announcing-the-2017-nebula-awards-nominees/




The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are pleased to announce the 2017 Nebula Awards nominees (to be presented in 2018), for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The winners will be announced at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 52nd Annual Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, which takes place from Thursday, May 17th through Sunday, May 20th at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
The nominees are as follows:

Novel
  • Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
  • Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
  • The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  • Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit US)
  • Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  • Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
Novella
  • River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
  • Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
  • “And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
  • Barry’s Deal, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleFusion Press)
  • All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
  • The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
  • “Dirty Old Town”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 5-6/17)
  • “Weaponized Math”, Jonathan P. Brazee (The Expanding Universe, Vol. 3)
  • “Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
  • “A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld 1/17)
  • “A Human Stain”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
  • “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 5-6/17)
Short Story
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
  • Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)
  • The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit” (Written by Michael Schur)
  • Logan (Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green)
  • The Shape of Water (Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Written by Rian Johnson)
  • Wonder Woman (Screenplay by Allan Heinberg)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
  • Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic Press)
  • Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
  • The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
  • Want, Cindy Pon (Simon Pulse)
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I have played hooky from work too long but before I go, here's a few pictures to close out today's post. Thanks for visiting.

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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
- Days ago = 964 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1802.22 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2501.19 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3488 days ago & DAD = 144 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.






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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2601.19 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3853 days ago & DAD = 508 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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