#vss365 No real #goal, just make it to another day, maybe a bit happier if I can manage it.

#vss365 “There’s no #issue here, Officer.” But of course, there was.

#vss365 “Shit! First, inbound’s late. Logistics is fouled up. The plan’s breaking down! We need some #transport now!” “It’s called getting an Uber.” My husband can be so dramatic.

It took me half of November to get to #Florence+TheMachine latest. It’s beautiful but harsh in places I didn’t expect. It’s a bottle of scotch with your friend you haven’t talked to in a year and a half and finding out she had a Bad Year. So you listen. And just be there for whatever she says.

#vss365 Henry burst into the lab with a piglet duct taped to a drone under his arm. “Never say the #science isn’t there!”

#vss365 “I’m sorry everyone. We’ve looked at the #numbers and…they aren’t good. We can’t even manage expectations on this. Tom, your numbers are dismal. Anna, you’re obviously distracted. There is no choice: some of you are going to have to go.” Kindergarten is hard these days, sighed Calvin.

#vss365 “The #myth of the perfect man eludes us again,” the leader of the cult of women proclaimed. They gathered their belongings and tents to move to the next village on their quest. They never suspected that their goal was so close, in the young sons that watched them attentively.

#vss365 What is the #measure of a person but the whisper of their actions and the echoes of the consequences?

#vss365 Tim often wondered what the #literature of the human soul was. It often got him extra punishment for not meeting his quota in the mines.

#vss365 “IT’S A FUCKIN’ $200 AMAZON GIFT CARD! IT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD EVERYWHERE!” The #laws of the Underworld are pretty strict. Charon’s payment is to a be coin, no matter the denomination. This would be a hard lesson for the recently deceased cashless to learn.

#vss365 “Of course I loved her,” my dad looked directly at me. “She had the stars in her eyes and know the #language of the seas.” It became very clear to me that his first love was a boat.

#vss365 “Past #history is not indicative of future performance.” Funny how that’s supposed to be reassuring in investment with finances but it’s absolute disaster when investing in relationships.

#vss365 I fell in love with your vistas from afar. But when I got to know you deeper, I found the #geography of your soul lacking. The lush forest hid a strip-mined heart, scarred by your own fear and greed.

#vss365 “It’s tough being #famous. Especially in NYC. So many people want you. Either for a picture or to do something to take part of your fame. Don’t get me wrong, the town is great but it’s hard and forces you to change. Ya’ gotta adapt to survive here. Or leave.” The Pizza Rat kept it real.

#vss365 It was the #education he had expected: he had wanted to be a caddy instead of a janitor at the country club. He soon learned that once people stop seeing you and get comfortable around you, you see who they really are. Knowledge of their true selves was incalculable.

#vss365 enemies, foreign and #domestic

#vss365 Never a #creature for comfort, Madeleine was always looking for the next adventure, in love and in life. And that’s how she found herself running an ice hotel with a vampire in the Arctic Circle.

#vss365 “Nasty #business,” the detective noted. “Rich kids would sneak over in costumes to the island and pretend to be deities. Then they whisk some natives off to their boat to indulge in the unspeakable. The worst bit is they would drop them back, broken and spoilt like toys. Fuck’em all.”

#vss365 Tired today, so a simple Happy #Halloween to all, those who write and those who haven’t started yet.

#vss365 My neighbor was depressed. “Just a #ray of hope, that’s all I want.” Always willing to help, I took my prison tray & shined the bottom with my frayed shirt until it was reflective. In the morning, I bounced the sun’s light from my meager window slit over to my neighbor’s cell. “Thanks.”

#vss365 “Oh how I have a weakness for #argent tressed ladies in tight black bodices,” Sir Hurwen sighed. “That’s why this was so easy,” the witch replied to the knight in her cage.

#vss365 The solemn cadence of the soldiers’ march step was growing louder by the second. “Dad, are you sure this will work?” We had worked on it for months. The government’s fall into fascism hurried our work and increased its importance. “No time for #experiments, m’boy!” and he turned it on.

#vss365 “What’s the matter, hon?” “You ever have that feeling of living #terror #creeping towards you— AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!“ My cat jumped into my lap.

#vss365 I’m just like you driving in your vehicle Work and rest marked by the #heliacal We pass another phase half-cyclical Lives so different it makes me cynical My work’s important But to you, just peripheral The lies you tell Feel oh so visceral Maybe you’ll wake and understand what is real

#vss365 The metal river never stops. It is loud and fast and fills my heart with #terror. Even at night, a million eyes stab the night as its ceaseless fury flows on. I walk many steps to the cave that lets the angry river rumble above me. I cross to find the angry river unchanged, although I am.

#vss365 No #terror like the present.

#vss365 “Fuckin’ asshole,” the #martian yelled at the colonist headed for Uranus, using the popular nickname for such travelers.

#vss365 Always lost within the dream chasing love beauty #unseen

Song Exploder takes apart A-ha's Take On Me https://pca.st/episode/d7ecd4db-510f-4034-97b6-79b9a72acb1b #aha #takeonme

#vss365 A smoking shell ejects. Its mate is a kilometer away and, centimeters off target. “I don’t have the #energy for this.” Sarge doesn’t care. “If you’re tired, do it tired.” Another two clips bounce off the dirt. (spelling error, lol.)

#vss365 “Whatcha’ doin’ Gram?” She puts a #saucer of milk outside. “Something for local kitties.” The things that strolled out the woods were not cats….

#vss365 “What’s the point?” My friend gets dejected sometimes. “There’s plenty for you,” I said. “You can find a group to hang out with, exactly like you or completely opposite. You can go places at your own pace or super fast. Or just find a partner to chill with. “Being an #atom can be cool.”

#vss365 My girlfriend’s cat is pretty annoying but you tolerate a lot for love. But it still creeps me out how the cat #hovers 3 inches off the bedspread when she sleeps.

#vss365 “Paranoid #Android. That was Pablo Honey, right?” “No, it’s on OK Computer. Pablo Honey was the breakout album with Creep.” “Pablo Honey, OK Computer, then Kid A. Gotcha.” It was very weird to see my two goldfish talk about Radiohead. I always thought they were more partial to The Cure.

#vss365 “Oh look at this little darling! We have to rescue it from this unforgiving #arid desert.” “It was born to be out here,” a gruff voice countered. “How can you say that! Let’s dig it up and take it back home!” And that’s how the desert rock ended up in the Johnson’s koi pond.

#vss365 The smell of freshly cooked bacon and scrambled eggs wake me up. I peek downstairs and can barely make out my mother cooking in the kitchen and start to cry. The thing about ghosts isn’t their #unearthly presence but how hard the memories hit you when you see them.

#vss365 Alarms started ringing when we were half a block from the bank. “I hope you got a good car this time!” I admonished my actual partner-in-crime. “I got it” came hurriedly from behind a duffel bag of cash. We stopped in front of a 1960s VW #beetle. “Ain’t she a beaut!” they exclaimed.

I’ve spent the last year working on this. Every iconic Sony portable audio device ever made, all in one book. Kickstarter launches in one week.

#vss365 We both stood there, looking at it, on its side, legs moving with unattainable purpose, not able to right itself. In all seriousness and solemnity she said, “Maybe you should have gotten the #deluxe model?”

#vss365 “And what would *you* do for this job, Mrs. Hansen?” She slowly pushed away from the table. It wasn’t the #undertone of violence in his question or the way he played with his steak knife. But this was just a lunch interview for a receptionist. She wouldn’t need her old skills here, right?

#vss365 “#PIRANHA!” “BARRACUDA!” “PIRANHA!!” “BARRACUDA!!” “Will you two shut up?! It doesn’t matter what they are if we’re dead! Now find a way out of this trap!” James Bond hated working with early-career field agents.

Aw Fuck, it’s a Radiohead day. A day just to chill out and listen to Radiohead because you feel like listening to those same melancholy songs and there’s nothing else to do.

#vss365 She walked into my office like a dame from a 1930’s hardboiled #pulp detective magazine. This was even more impressive considering I was wearing a paper hat for the amusement park and ran its Lost-and-Found kiosk. Too many phones. “I lost my baby,” she purred. Whoa! A real case?!

Just a reminder for the lead up to #TronAres, that the excellent #TronUprising is back on Disney, featuring Elijah Wood, Bruce Boxleitner, Lance Henriksen, Mandy Moore, and #PaulReubens.

#vss365 We pulled into the highway #oasis, still shaking. New York was in flames behind us and we didn’t know if it would burn out or set the East Coast aflame. But we were safe for now. “You okay?” I put my hand out. A very weak “yes” came out. “Some blind date, huh?”

#vss365 It was all a #blur. But to be fair, I was going at 0.99c.

#vss365 “MINE!” “LIKE HELL!” “OVER MY DEAD BODY!” “AND THE KIDS!” They were the worst couple she had ever seen. She calmly stepped from the bench and hitched up her robe to expose a lightsaber. “Quite a #conundrum. You two wouldn’t happen to be students of history? Solomon? Alexander the Great?”

#vss365 Watching them attack the family in the car, I finally got it. Who was right, who was wrong, who was lying, and who was just trying to live. The cold hard stone that had been my empathy #sublimated into a burning sun of compassion. I was no longer frozen. I acted.

#vss365 “I call her the ‘Mary Jane’.” Howard seemed especially pleased with himself. It was his first boat. I didn’t want to ruin things by pointing out the remains of the previous #escutcheon named it “Sea Hag”.

#vss365 It was after persistent #scrutiny that the kids realized it was the greedy old rich white guy who was behind everything.