Sometimes it's necessary to pull a post set up long ago out of the archive.
This is a good example.
It may seem too old to be worthy, but Scalzi is always worth reading.
And I am sort of in low power mode without really being in low power mode officially.
Thanks for tuning in.
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Whatever Best of 2018
Well, that was a year, wasn’t it: a dark cloud of crap with a silver lining in the November elections. I’m kind of hoping it represented the bottom and that 2019 sees us clawing our way back toward the light, but, well. We’ll see, won’t we.
In the meantime, here’s a collection of some of my best pieces here on Whatever this year, if you missed them the first time, or just want to relive them in all their glory. It’s relatively light on pieces specifically about Our Dim President, because 2018 was the year I more or less said “How many different ways can I say he’s bigoted, incompetent crook?” and chose not to write about him in any great detail. Nevertheless he shows up here and there. He’s part of the landscape, he is.
(Also, the piece featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson was written well prior to the sexual harassment and assault allegations about him coming into general view; it certainly puts a different spin on things. 2018, man.)
The pieces here are in alphabetical, not chronological, order:
- Art and Entertainment and Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- The Fall(?!?!?) of Heinlein
- Four Views of the Same Short Story
- The Gamification of Rhetoric
- Incels and Other Misogynists
- An Interview With Santa’s Lawyer
- Kids
- Meet Keith Johnson
- Nanette, Hannah Gadsby and Me
- No, In Fact, You Should Not Write For Free
- Notes and Advice from a Book Tour
- Personal Politics
- Presidents
- Private Lives in a Public Era
- The Reputational Reset, Or Not
- Some Observations on Bestseller Lists, December 2018
- Spouse
- Thoughts on A Wrinkle in Time
- Trump is a Racist. Stop Pretending Otherwise.
- Who’s Cool and Who’s Not
And to end on a goofy note, meet my parrot son. It was good to get a little goofy in 2018, from time to time.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2507.11 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 3662 days ago & DAD = 316 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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