Author of The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne and other novels. Father, trail runner, late-night cereal eater. Good at cooking risotto, bad at keeping the house clean.
The best thing about Violent Night is that you never learn how or why Santa made the transition from Viking beserker to Santa Claus. Just a wonderful lacuna in the backstory.
Need a little help remembering something. I have a dim memory of a cartoon (coyote and roadrunner) in which a character is riding a cart along railroad tracks and frantically building the tracks ahead as they ride. Anyone have a more specific memory of what this might be?
I haven’t been hooked into a video game in years, but Chants of Sennaar is excellent. All about decoding language. My son and I are loving it. Sorry for the shitty pic!
State of MA: We need your step-mother’s death certificate.
Office of Vital Records: You need MA to give you *proof* that they need the death certificate.
MA: You need to file the claim without the certificate. Then we will tell you you did it wrong. *Then* we tell you we need the certificate.
Do y’all think it would be cathartic to read some Kafka while dealing with the administration of my deceased brother’s records and my still-alive but dementia-riddled mother’s affairs, or maybe not?
