Oo, we gots cookies!!!
To go with those, I'll put on some Las Chicas Nicaraguan Dark Roast. For teas, let's see, how about Assam and Sunday Tea. And, as always, we've iced tea, lemonade, and sundry sodas in the fridge. If you need them colder, I've got some trays of ice cubes in the freezer along with the ice cream, too.
Later, folks.
It is the first full week of the month and that means a new list of themed calls and markets from Author's publish. And it's the usual mixed bag. New Weird (think Annihilation) set in coastal regions, Weird Westerns, cosmic romance, and even, if you happen to live in British Columbia, stories about the BC wildfires. And a whole lot more. Some are, alas, too late (the first item on the list closes today) but there's also some future-looking timelines. There is also a list of open comps at the end.
https://authorspublish.com/30-themed-submission-calls-and-contests-for-august-2023/
Welp, it's a holiday here in the Great White North. Civic Holiday, Simcoe Day, and myriad other names are used. It's mostly just a day off in August, though, rather than having any real specific meaning.
I've put on some classic Canadian coffee. No, not Tim's. They suck apparently. We've got Kicking Horse Smart Ass on. For those not up on their Canadian history, the Kicking Horse Pass is the pass through the Rockies where the CPR, our first national railway, went through the mountains.
Teas are Canadian Breakfast (a blend from my local shop) and Earl Grey.
Cold beverage pitchers are washed and refilled with unsweet iced tea and lemonade. Pop is looking good.
Have a great one!
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My favorite Rendfield will always be Tom Waits in Coppola's version. I didn't realize for a long time that it was Tom Waits
Yeah, he doesn't act much but is actually pretty good when he does. The casting in that version was a real mixed bag. Keanu was a bad choice for Jonathan (would have been good for Quincey, I think) but Oldman and Hopkins were terrific, as was Waits.
Coffee is a perkin', some nice stuff from Nicaragua. Teas are on, too. We've got some Irish Breakfast and Earl Grey Cream. Of course, there's cold beverages for those battling the heat. We have unsweet iced tea and lemonade. There's sodas in the fridge but they don't seem to get drunk much. Did some restocking anyhow.
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But I have avoided Renfield with Nicolas Cage. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I found the trailers for Renfield offputting. It feels like Cage is playing it for laughs and doing his usual psycho over-the-top schtick. He'd actually be better as Renfield and that's who I thought he would play when I first heard he was in it.
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I never watched the series, but it is on my list. The reboot looks interesting.
I started watching "Good Omens 2" on Amazon. I loved the book and enjoyed season one. Hopefully, they did a good job on season two.
Apparently, season 2 is based on an actual sequel to the novel that Neil Gaiman (who is no longer showrunning but is still a producer, I think) and the late Terry Pratchett sketched out but never got around to writing, so it actually might be good.
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Chicken and Beer
I take it the menu is fairly obvious? What kind of chicken, though? Roast, BBQ, fried, all of the above?
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Talia's first week of work seems to be going pretty well, if a little overwhelming.
Sounds about right for first week on a new job. Hope it keeps going pretty well.
Good afternoon! Thanks to verbs for coffee and tea.
Weather is a okay going into our long weekend (Civic Holiday we call it but there's a variety of names across the parts of the country that have it). Might shower Monday. I plan to write plus have some housework to do. Have a comp entry for another site basically done, then hopefully tackle my long gestating sequel to Spirits of Tan Maldrin, which is now set in not-Iceland. Oh, a couple trips in various stages of planning, one a weekend getaway for our wedding anniversary, one a possible next big trip (assuming we don't push it off to next year, which is possible, in which case it might be our next next big trip).
Good morning!!!!!
Coffee is a special treat: McCafe. No, seriously. My son swears by it. Prefers it to Timmie's.
Teas are English Breakfast and Earl Grey.
Cold beverages, iced tea and lemonade, are refreshed.
Given the heat dogging so much of the world, I have put in a separate freezer and stocked it with Kawartha Dairy ice cream. Many flavours to choose from.
Later.
One of my favourite metal bands (after Nightwish) is Blind Guardian. They are pretty old, having started when I was just finishing high school. Lead singer Hansi Kursch has an incredible voice both for screaming and clean singing. This is the title track of their fifth album, released in 1995, here done live in 2016. It is one of my favourite Guardian songs at present (though I am still working my way through their extensive catalogue).
One of my high school-university friends got married in his backyard (they were already living together). It makes for a nice ceremony but a lot of work, I think. Our son got married kind of "on the sly" (just them, witnesses, and the Imam from a mosque in their area since his wife is Muslim) during the pandemic so we kind of got off easy on that front.
Thanks for setting up, Verbs. Was busy this morning due to crap happening in life. I'll live but there's a guy who I will likely never know and never meet that I want to inflict serious bodily harm on. And I'm pretty mild mannered so me being that pissed off tells you how bad this is.
I have things to write but seem to be flailing for time. Things just keep coming up. I mean, we just got back from vacation and wife is already planning two more (one short one for our anniversary and one longer one for our next real vacay).
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Driving to Albuquerque for an eclipse in October.
Next big trip: sleeper car up the left coast to Vancouver. Cruise from there to Alaska.
Both sound fun. We saw the last eclipse at Bryce Canyon in Utah. Did not plan it that way, just worked out. And loved our Alaska cruise. We went from Seattle but there won't be much difference I imagine except you might go up the strait instead of around Vancouver Island like we did.
Birds, birds, everywhere birds. At least in my backyard. Where I am working today. Never dreamt my deck could double as an office. Thank you, COVID, I guess. There has to have been a better way for us to discover the value of working from home, though.
And one year ago, I was recovering from everyone's (not) favourite disease. Not fun but my case was milder than a lot of folks I know so I am thankful for that much.
Coffee is brewing, a Nicaraguan dark roast. Teas are Red Rose and Sunday Tea. Pitchers of iced tea and lemonade are washed and refilled.
Later, alligators.
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Jenna Ortega will be playing her daughter
Jenna seems to be becoming the go-to actor for young women in creepy stories. First Wednesday Addams and now this.
I am getting rather intrigued by Last Voyage of the Demeter. It is a Dracula movie but focusses on one part of the novel that sometimes does not even make it into other adaptations: The fate of the ship that transports Dracula and his supply of boxes (i.e. coffins) to England from Transylvania. Very creepy looking vampire and the scenario (monster stalking the crew on a storm-tossed ship) seems ripe for a locked room horror a la Alien or The Thing. And apparently the director's last movie, Trollhunter, is quite good, too.
So this week's post from Authors Publish is not a list of markets or calls for submissions, but a reading list suggesting memoirs to read. I am not really planning to write my memoirs (not much to write about, truth be told) but maybe some of you would benefit. And, really, reading a good memoir can be just a good read, too.
» 22 Memoirs that Every Aspiring Memoir Author Should Consider Reading (authorspublish.com)
