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,

Saturday, May 4, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3364 - May the Fourth Be With You 2024 - Star Wars Day (and FREE COMIC BOOK DAY)



A Sense of Doubt blog post #3364 - May the Fourth Be With You 2024 - Star Wars Day  (and FREE COMIC BOOK DAY)

Happy Star Wars Day and Free Comic Book Day.

A twofer.

A reprint.

Recovering from an ordeal yesterday.

Thanks for tuning in.


I covet this shirt, but I am in a buying freeze.


https://freecomicbookday.com/Article/271519-Terry-Moore-Announced-as-FCBD-2024-Commemorative-Artist


Terry Moore Announced as FCBD 2024 Commemorative Artist

Terry Moore FCBD 2024 Art

We are incredibly excited to reveal the commemorative artwork for Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) 2024. Fan-favorite creator Terry Moore has created a one-of-a-kind design featuring his beloved characters Francine and Katchoo, emphasizing the community and friendship that come from exploring the pages of a comic book. The design will serve as the commemorative t-shirt, poster, and vinyl sticker for FCBD 2024.

Under the banner of Abstract Studio, Terry Moore has been publishing his groundbreaking comics and graphic novels for almost thirty years. His award-winning work, Strangers in Paradise, carved out a unique space for him in the world of Terry Moore headshotAmerican comics. Debuting in 1993, when The Death of Superman and other super-hero titles were dominating comic book sales, Moore set out to explore a different narrative with Strangers in Paradise, one that would eventually be termed “slice-of-life dramedy.” The story centers on the lives of Francine and Katchoo, a pair of twenty-something best friends who eventually fall in love. The fan-favorite series features romance, action, intrigue, and Moore’s signature humor. Strangers in Paradise was in publication for fourteen years, during which time it received great critical and commercial acclaim, including wins for an Eisner Award, a Reuben Award, and a GLADD Award for Best Comic.

With Strangers in Paradise being reprinted in a four-volume trade paperback set in 2023 and 2024, Terry Moore provides the art for 2024's Free Comic Book Day Commemorative Artist T-Shirt, Poster, and, new for 2024, Vinyl Sticker. Featuring his beloved characters Francine and Katchoo doing something every comics fan loves to do — reading comics! — these products are the perfect way to celebrate your love of comics and art.

Terry Moore FCBD 2024 line artTerry Moore FCBD 2024 B&W art

“We’re incredibly excited to have Terry Moore serving as our Commemorative Artist for FCBD 2024!” said Free Comic Book Day spokesperson, Ashton Greenwood. “Free Comic Book Day is all about celebrating the community comic books provide us. That means celebrating the importance of local comic shops and the way storytelling in comics allows us to bond with others. Terry’s art beautifully captures all of the things that make FCBD such a special event.”

The FCBD 2024 Commemorative T-shirt will be available in adult sizes small through XXXL (MSRP: $15.99-$21.99) and in youth sizes small through large (MSRP: $15.99). The Commemorative Poster will be 22” x 24” on a stone-wash gray background (MSRP: $11.99). The Commemorative Vinyl Sticker will be 3” wide on a white background; check with a retailer with for pricing. The shirt, poster, and vinyl sticker, along with a complete listing of all the FCBD 2024 comic book titles and exclusive collectibles, can be found in the December issue of the PREVIEWS catalog, available in comic shops on November 22, 2023.  

For more FCBD news and updates, visit freecomicbookday.com and subscribe to our newsletter. Connect with us on social media on FacebookInstagram, and X (formerly Twitter)!  















Thursday, May 4, 2023




A Sense of Doubt blog post #2998 - May the Fourth be With You: Happy Star Wars Day 2023


Straight up reprint today that collects other reprints from previous years.

Happy Star Wars Day.

May the Fourth Be With You, always.

Thanks for tuning in.


Wednesday, May 4, 2022





A Sense of Doubt blog post #2633 - HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!


I am a day behind, but still Happy Star Wars Day.

I chose the image above because I thought it an odd choice to advertise behavioral health with a storm trooper.

A recent reprint (last year's MAY THE FOURTH) from here:

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Thanks for tuning in.

Enjoy!

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #69
I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021


A Sense of Doubt blog post #2268 - MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU, always


A little lame because I am behind, so I am posting this on Thursday May Sixth, but whatever. WORK LIFE BALANCE. I was up at 3 a.m. yesterday, which by the date of this post is tomorrow.

HERE YOU GO.















To commemorate this day, a HEY MOM reprint:


Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #540 - Carrie Fisher, RIP, you will be missed



http://pixalry.io/post/155056851712/drowned-by-moonlight-and-strangled-by-her-own-bra
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #540 - Carrie Fisher, RIP, you will be missed

Hi Mom,

What a helluva a year. I felt rocked hard enough by your passing away 542 days ago.

So many big name deaths this year.

And now Carrie Fisher, Richard Adams among all the others: Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, Florence Henderson, Alan Rickman, Muhammed Ali, Edward Albee, Patty Duke, Harper Lee, Elie Wiesel, José Fernandez, Darwyn Cooke, Umberto Eco, Pat Conroy, Glenn Frey, Keith Emerson, Tony Phillips, Gene Wilder, Anton Yelchin, Doris Roberts, and most of all how the year started with the loss of DAVID BOWIE.

I wrote about all this death here: Hey Mom #248 but that was back in March. So many more since then. I have a death category on the right in the category list to see other posts.

I repost Scalzi a lot. He's one of my go to choices as I follow his work closely. Though he nails it, I may re-post other work soon and add some more thoughts on this year of big name deaths not to mention the deaths of friends and loved ones. A close friend's father just died and a few weeks ago a friend's eighteen year old son died. Those deaths seem more tragic as they are closer to home.

http://gabecebro.tumblr.com/post/155038349186/may-the-force-be-with-you-princess

http://brokenlynx21.tumblr.com/post/155042606471

http://nikoniko808.tumblr.com/post/155046460275/thank-you

http://matereya.tumblr.com/post/155045188467/rip-carrie-fisher-i-still-cant-believe-this-is









RIP Carrie Fisher




Obviously she will be remembered for Star Wars — she played one of its most iconic characters, who was a general, a senator and a princess. But as much as I liked her in that role, she came most alive for me when I learned that she was a writer, and a good one, and not only a good one, but an extraordinarily witty one, one who was called in to save movie scripts and who could write novels and memoirs with characters and turns of phrase that inspired me at least to want to be that witty too.
Beyond that I admired her openness talking about her struggles with addiction and mental illness. I think she did good work in helping people who shared her struggles in their own life know that they didn’t have to stop you, you just had to know they were part of the landscape. I think she saved lives being open about her own.
So she not only played a role model but was one in her own life, for all sorts of people, including me. I’m glad she was here with us. I’m sad she is gone now. I just know she would have a great parting shot about it.
Update: I wrote a longer piece on Carrie Fisher as a writer, for the Los Angeles TimesHere it is.
Carrie Fisher the writer: Witty and vulnerable, she took us to the edge of our comfort zone


John Scalzi
Out on the Internet, along with the many heart-touching tributes to Carrie Fisher, photographs of her as Leia Organa, either as princess (the original trilogy) or general (from “The Force Awakens”) and with her beloved French bulldog Gary, there’s another picture, originally placed there by cinema documentarian Will McCrabb, showing a page of the script of “The Empire Strikes Back.” On the script are several edits, in red pen, condensing and improving the script. McCrabb said the hand that put the edits there was Carrie Fisher’s, noting on Twitter that Fisher herself confirmed it to him.
Is he correct? The edits might have been made by Irwin Kershner, “Empire’s” director, instead. At the time — 1979 — Fisher would have been 22 years old. Yet here she was, looking at a script written by Lawrence Kasdan, who would go on to several screenwriting Oscar nominations, and Leigh Brackett, Howard Hawks’ secret screenwriting weapon and one of the great science fiction writers of her time, and thinking “this needs some fixing.” And then getting out her pen and doing just that.

Whoever made the edits wasn’t wrong. At least some of the edits to the scene (in which Leia, Han and Chewbacca plot a course to visit Lando Calrissian) made it to the final cut of the film. Simpler, tighter, better — and with the rhythm of speech rather than exposition (science fiction, forever the genre of people explaining things to other people). Carrie Fisher played a galactic princess, but she had a working writer’s gift for understanding how people talk, and how language works. At 22.

She published her first novel, “Postcards From the Edge,” in 1987, which she would adapt for the 1990 Mike Nichols film of the same name, starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. Fisher’s four novels were based to some extent on her own life — as an author, “write what you know” was something Fisher took seriously — but the books were more than veiled tidbits of the life of a Hollywood scion. They announced the arrival of a writer whose voice — witty but vulnerable, willing to push her readers to the edge of their comfort zone with the same lines that made them laugh — was both all her own, and part of a literary tradition that included writers like Dorothy Parker and Elaine May. 
"By about 16 I wanted to be Dorothy Parker," she told The Times in 2008. "I figured out the ways I am like her…. She’s short. She was half Jewish. She had brown hair and brown eyes. She was an alcoholic or addict. And she married a gay guy!"
And like Parker and May, Hollywood found its uses for Fisher as a writer. In addition to “Postcards,” Fisher had a healthy career as one of the film industry’s most sought-after script doctors — the (largely) anonymous people who would go in and punch up a script in dire need of laugh lines and emotional heft. She worked on some of the biggest hits and franchises of the ’90s, including Steven Spielberg’s “Hook,” “Lethal Weapon 3,” “Sister Act” and “The Wedding Singer.” Not every script she worked on could be saved — she was reported to have worked the scripts for the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, which are generally considered to be dire — but no doctor saves every patient. 
In 2008, Fisher told Newsweek that she had stopped script-doctoring because producers started requiring rewrite notes on spec with no guarantees of payment. The same year, Fisher ditched fiction and began releasing memoirs, starting with “Wishful Drinking,” which, along with the usual anecdotes that come with the territory of a celebrity memoir, also dealt frankly, if sardonically, with Fisher’s history of addiction and mental illness.
“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am," Fisher wrote in "Wishful Drinking," directly after describing "being invited" to go to a mental hospital. That was part of the charm of her writing: it would take you places you might not have wanted to go, and kept up a stream of chatter to help you remain, if not comfortable, at least comforted. Your friend Carrie Fisher was with you, even as she was observing herself.
Fisher’s memoirs were not universally loved (Salon reviewer Rebecca Traister complained, of “Wishful Drinking,” that “it retreads much of the terrain she’s already covered in her novels”), but it’s possible that in the final accounting, the openness in which Fisher addressed her struggles with mental illness, pills and other drugs may have been the most important thing she’d done. It’s not easy to lay yourself bare to millions and say, basically, “this is what was going on while you thought I was a princess.” Fisher did it, fearlessly and unapologetically, and in the process of living out loud helped to erase at least some of the stigma that still attaches to addiction recovery and treating mental illness. Her second memoir, 2012’s “Shockaholic,” detailed undergoing electroconvulsive therapy — called, in the old days, shock treatment — as a remedy for depression.
There’s no doubt that Fisher’s fame comes from “Star Wars,” and Leia Organa, who “Star Wars” fans are likely to see one more time, at least, when “Episode VIII” of the film franchise comes to theaters in late 2017. But Fisher’s legacy includes her written words -- cutting, clever, observant, self-aware and unbowed.  
Scalzi is a Los Angeles Times Critic at Large and the author of the Hugo-winning novel “Redshirts.” 


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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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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1612.28 - 10:10
NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

sorry, can't find the original now...

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. 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.


Friday, May 3, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3363 - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3363 - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

I had another post planned for today for a presentation I gave today for a job interview, but then I decided that I did not want to push that content to social media quite yet, not while I am under consideration for the job AND several of the people considering me are connected with my social media feeds.

So, instead, I am reaching back into the draft archive for a post that I set up to publish in 2021 and never did.

Just this share.

It's good stuff.

Thanks for tuning in.


https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/


The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

agnosthesia

n. the state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior, as if you were some other person—noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort put into something trifling, or an inexplicable weight on your shoulders that makes it difficult to get out of bed.

lilo

n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if no time had passed since you last saw each other.

midding

v. intr. feeling the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it—hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, chatting outside a party while others dance inside, resting your head in the backseat of a car listening to your friends chatting up front—feeling blissfully invisible yet still fully included, safe in the knowledge that everyone is together and everyone is okay, with all the thrill of being there without the burden of having to be.





pâro
n. the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, “colder, colder, colder…”

Brand new episode of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

onism

n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.

Altschmerz

n. weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had—the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for years, which leaves them soggy and tasteless and inert, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.

scabulous

adj. proud of a scar on your body, which is an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even when you don’t feel like it.

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https://www.youtube.com/c/obscuresorrows/videos


The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

 Nov 16, 2021

THE BOOK IS HERE from Simon & Schuster: https://bit.ly/3z1RYvH 

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Special note to my subscribers: Thank you all for your patience. In the last couple years I had already been hard at work writing the book, but then life happened: I moved abroad, my daughter Charlotte was born, and I had to have unexpected heart surgery right when Covid was at its worst. I made it through, thankfully, back to full power. And now I feel extraordinarily grateful that the book is finally here, that I lived long enough to see it happen, and that you all have stuck with me. I have no words for any of that. But I'm excited to get a chance to make more videos again. I love it.

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“BRILLIANT” —New York Magazine

"Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have."

—John Green, New York Times bestselling author of "The Fault in Our Stars"

“Koenig connects the seemingly unconnectable feelings we as humans experience on a daily basis and puts words to them. Koenig brilliantly finds a way to show, in his new words and their definitions, how we connect to ourselves and one another through feelings and emotions.” 

—BoDean Warnock, Booklist


"A beautiful little book…Whatever the half-baked, unfinished, yet-to-be-articulated emotion tumbling around in your brain, this book will find a way to name it. Koenig has a cunning ability to parse out emotions in a very specific way and pin them down into actual articulation, both in the word he creates itself and its poetic definition and etymology. There is joy to be found in every nook and cranny of this book.”

—Michigan Daily Review


The original Backrooms image posted on 4chan in 2019

https://boingboing.net/2020/12/15/the-quiet-horror-of-procedural-generation.html

The quiet horror of procedural generation


The following is from my newsletter, The Magnet. There's a free version and a subscriber version. I hope you'll check it out! — Mark

That feeling from being the only one in a building is called kenopsiaThe Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defines kenopsia as "the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that's usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet." Photos of kenopsic places — abandoned shopping malls, empty airports, school hallways late at night, and other lonely places that evoke feelings of disassociation and disquiet — are popular online. The most famous kenopsic photo is the one of The Backrooms.

According to Know Your Meme, The Backrooms originated on 4chan in 2019 when someone posted a photo, taken at an uneasy angle, of a dingy yellow room illuminated by fluorescent lights. There's no furniture or people. The wallpaper, reminiscent of a 1980s hotel conference room, is mismatched. The carpeting has large stains. A divider at the far end hints at an entrance to another, possibly similar room. A 4chan reader's comment about the photo marks the first use of The Backrooms:

If you're not careful and no-clip out of reality in wrong areas, you'll end up in the backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, and endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you…

The Backrooms quickly spread beyond 4chan. In the weeks and months to follow, people wrote programs that simulated the "six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms." Some of these panic-inducing mazes became the basis for Backrooms games, the object of which is to escape without going crazy.

The Backrooms also inspired a wiki, called Backrooms Database. It's a collaborative writing site where fans "create new Levels, Entities, Objects, Tales, and the rest of the lore, to create a cohesive universe." You can read reports from members of the M.E.G. (Major Explorers' Group) who have ventured deep into the Backrooms and have taken photos of newly discovered rooms and hallways (all of which are, of course, kenopsic) and cataloged the lifeforms that inhabit the lower levels, such as skin stealers, hounds, and facelings.

The Backrooms reminds me of "Report on an Unidentified Space Station," a 1982 short story by J.G. Ballard about a crew of space travelers who make an emergency landing on an abandoned space station. (I read it in the excellent Semiotext(e) SF anthology from 1989, edited by Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson, and Peter Lambhorn Wilson.) The story is told in the form of eight "survey reports." In the first report, the nameless author gives their first impression of the spacecraft:

Although of elderly construction it is soundly designed and in good working order, and seems to have been used in recent times as a transit depot for travelers resting at mid-point in their journeys. Its interior consists of a series of open passenger concourses, with comfortably equipped lounges and waiting rooms. As yet we have not been able to locate the bridge or control centre. We assume that the station was one of many satellite drogues surrounding a large command unit, and was abandoned when a decline in traffic left it surplus to the needs of the parent transit system

They estimate the station to be 500 meters across. But as they explore its well-lit lounges and hallways, they slowly realize that the station is much larger than they initially surmised. From "Survey Report 2":

We began by setting out across the central passenger concourse that separates the two hemispheres of the station. This wide deck is furnished with thousands of tables and chairs. But on reaching the high partition doors 200 metres away we discovered that the restaurant deck is only a modest annex to a far larger concourse. An immense roof three storeys high extends across an open expanse of lounges and promenades. We explored several of the imposing staircases, each equipped with a substantial mezzanine, and found that they lead to identical concourses above and below.

The space station has clearly been used as a vast transit facility, comfortably accommodating many thousands of passengers. There are no crew quarters or crowd control posts. The absence of even a single cabin indicates that this army of passengers spent only a brief time here before being moved on, and must have been remarkable self-disciplined or under powerful restraint.

They revise their estimation of the size of the station to be one mile in diameter. With each subsequent report, they realize the station is vastly larger than they'd imagined.

In the ninth and final report, the scout estimates the diameter of the space station to be at least 15,000 light-years:

We have accepted the limitless size of the station, and this awareness fills us with feelings that are almost religious. Our instruments confirm what we have long suspected, that the empty space across which we traveled from our own solar system in fact lies within the interior of the station, one of many vast lacunae set in its endlessly curving walls.

The Backrooms, and Ballard's story, made me curious about procedural generation, a process that can be used to automatically create endless virtual architecture, among other things. (Check out the Procedural Generation subreddit for lots of cool examples of what can be done with procedural generation.) A specific procedural generation technique called a "wave function collapse algorithm" is commonly used to create worlds like The Backrooms. This beginner's guide to "wave function collapse algorithms" helped me understand how they work.

Here's a video of an infinite city built using the wave function collapse algorithm:


Infinite procedurally generated city in Unity

This video of a city built from a limited set of architectural elements combined in endlessly different ways feels very much like Ballard's space station. Near the end of the video, you can see how the buildings are generated in realtime as you approach the edge of the city. There's no escape from this place.

It's not surprising that kenopsic spaces have become a phenomenon in the era of COVID-19. They represent the millions of unused schools, theaters, office buildings, museums, and libraries worldwide. Just thinking about them triggers a sense of Ballardian dread. Here's hoping we find our way out of this space station we've all been trapped in for the past year.

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. 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.