David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org

When unable to move the plot along, go back to the beginning and polish, tweak, fix, etc., getting a new running start that will burst you through that sticking point and carry you triumphantly to the finish line! You hope.

Well, yes, it's true that I've imagined that and much worse about certain neighbors.

A most unfortunate typo in a post on Nextdoor:

"Hi Neighbors, am looking for an affordable hangman to do a small job on my property..."

Yeah, it's Fox News, but I love the headline.

Nurse fired for secret affair with patient who died during sex in hospital parking lot

https://news.yahoo.com/nurse-fired-secret-affair-patient-174424348.html

Here's a bit of info about the Threads Web interface. The home page, threads.net, displays a holding pattern at this point, but you can go directly to a person's feed on the Web if you know the username. E.g., my name on threds is ddnothingelse, and you can go to my feed there at this link:
https://www.threads.net/@ddnothingelse

It's strange to think that I'm a member of the Silent Generation. When I was a teenager and young adult, the older generation constantly complained about how much noise we made, especially our music.

From time to time, for my own amusement, I try to come up with an absurd name for the hero of an adventure thriller, but I can only think up ones that sound tongue in cheek, such as Hatchett "Hatch" Manly.

I wonder how many of the oafs gleefully breaking the law by shooting off fireworks also vote Republican because that's the party of law and order.

Generally speaking, the most one can say about writing advice from a writer is that it's probably fairly good advice for the writer giving the advice.

I don't like wearing tank top, shorts, and sandals, but for much of the summer here, it's the only comfortable option. If I try to compromise by wearing tank top and jeans, I feel like a bad stereotype of a hick Southerner from a crappy movie.

The Denver Nuggets won the NBA championship, crowds filled downtown streets, ten people were shot, and a few cars were damaged. That's very peaceful and unremarkable by American standards.

How times change.

I'm reading a Jane Austen novel in which two sisters are talking about their brother Sam and his love for a Miss Edwards. Miss Edwards will inherit 10,000 pounds and her parents have high standards for potential husbands for her. Unfortunately for Sam, that excludes him, for he is only a surgeon.

“Lawmakers are gathering in Washington” sounds so much better than “Republicans are putting on hold their attempt to stay in office by appealing to the vilest elements in American society and slithering back to Washington to try to undo as much social progress as possible, as ordered by their ratfink plutocratic masters”.

@greeneralia In the OT, we are meant to admire such stories.

@greeneralia It would certainly be long. The OT not only has violent stories, which we are supposed to admire, but also religious admonitions that I would include for their violent attittudes and punishments.

Someone needs to put out an edition of the Bible that consists only of the sex and violence.

I just signed a shopping agreement with a Hollywood screenwriter/producer for my Sherlock Holmes novel. He'll write a script and shop it around to studios. I'm battlescarred enough not to get my hopes up, but nonetheless this gives me a pleasant feeling.

The novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1466211652/

I got an email advertising homeopathic stuff on sale at 22% off. The joke is so obvious that I won't even bother making it.

Insanity: The crazy feeling that overcomes you when someone trots out that silly nonense about Albert Einstein's definition of insanity.

From an American perspective, the really important thing about the #coronation is that it provides another opportunity for some Americans to loudly proclaim their staunch republicanism online, and why do the Brits retain such an anachronism, and didn't we fight a revolution so that we wouldn't have to hear about this, and let me tell you again how spectacularly uninterested I am IN ALL CAPS!!!!