Cartoon: Melting
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dailykos_feedThe Recap: Trump’s embarrassing Davos speech, plus his plans for Iceland—er, Greenland
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:13 pmdailykos_feedA daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.
Trump repeatedly confuses Greenland for Iceland
"The president of the United States is extremely mentally ill, and it’s putting all of our lives at risk.”
Media lauds Trump’s Davos speech as ‘very strong’ as world cringes
We’re not sure what’s more embarrassing: Trump’s speeches or the media’s sanewashing of them.
Trump's team tries to ruin toy store after owners denounce ICE
The president is still waging a war on free speech—and toys.
Gutless Republicans praise Trump's awful first year back in office
They can lie all they want—voters still aren’t buying it.
“Help is on the way,” Trump said to Iranian protesters as tear gas rained down in Minneapolis.
Trump inadvertently debunks his own racist BS about Somali immigrants
He’s certainly one to talk about “low-IQ people.”
Newsom rips into Trump's 'jaw-dropping' Davos speech
This will be a blow to Trump’s weak ego.
January journal: science fiction periodization
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursulaglowingfish asked:The Golden Age of published science-fiction was more or less from 1955 to 1975 (lets say). Why did it end when it did? Do you think that science-fiction (or fantasy) published after 1975 was different, or do you just think it had less ability to become part of the "canon"?
This is really non-standard periodization! Wikipedia has the Golden Age of science fiction starting in the late 1930s, in connection with sci-fi magazine publishing history; the end of your period is solidly New Wave.
The counter-argument is the aphorism that the Golden Age of science fiction is twelve; by that rule, it's interesting to think about who was twelve in 1955-1975, or whatever guidelines you want to pick, and what influence they might have had on defining a canon, once they reached their twenties or thirties. The people who were twelve between 1955 and 1975 were mostly baby boomers, in the standard US generational framework; that was my parents' generation (and
glowingfish's parents', I'm guessing), and it makes sense that the stories they considered formative would seem quasi-canonized to our generation.good news: health
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:01 pmredbirdThere's more evidence that the shingles vaccine reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease: two more natural experiments (in which people were offered the vaccine based on date of birth or where they lived). One of them comparED the older Zostavax vaccine with the newer Shingrix: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-shingles-vaccineagain
As the blogger, Eric Topol says, "If this vaccine was a drug and reduced Alzheimer’s by 20%, it would be considered a major breakthrough for helping to prevent the disease! But as a vaccine, it hasn't reached any sense of being a blockbuster"
As the blogger, Eric Topol says, "If this vaccine was a drug and reduced Alzheimer’s by 20%, it would be considered a major breakthrough for helping to prevent the disease! But as a vaccine, it hasn't reached any sense of being a blockbuster"
States brace for disastrous winter storm as FEMA flounders
Jan. 22nd, 2026 12:00 amdailykos_feedStates are bracing for what’s projected to be “one of the most extreme” winter storms across nearly half of the United States this weekend. But the potential devastation could be amplified by the lack of federal disaster relief.
In North Carolina, the impacts of 2024’s Hurricane Helene can still be felt across the state. Now, freezing rain threatens dayslong power outages and arctic temperatures for residents who—in some cases—don’t even have a home to shelter in.
And thanks to President Donald Trump’s overhauling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, help is likely not on its way.
According to local reports, Carolinians who were placed in temporary housing by FEMA were evicted earlier than designated—some as recently as this week—despite having no other housing options.
Daily Kos contacted FEMA and North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein for comment about how people could be impacted by the incoming storm but did not receive a response by time of publication.
Unhoused locals have been sitting in limbo waiting for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees FEMA, to dole out funds for those affected. Even though there’s plenty of money—a whopping $1.5 billion, in fact—set aside to buy out the homes of Carolina residents, nothing has moved forward.
The Trump administration’s destruction of FEMA has brought about bipartisan concern, with senators even meeting in secret to discuss how to save the vital agency.
But Trump has been doing everything in his power to destroy FEMA—though sometimes unsuccessfully. Last month, a judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully by ending a program that helps communities prepare for natural disasters.
Still, FEMA’s ineffectiveness under Trump and Noem has already cost many lives. In July 2025, approximately 120 Texans died during a catastrophic flood when, instead of being able to provide immediate disaster relief, FEMA agents had to wait 72 hours for Noem to sign off on the budget.
Now, as dozens of states prepare for another potential natural disaster, the extreme damage that Trump has done to FEMA might be felt again by those who have already been left vulnerable.
wednesday reads and things
Jan. 21st, 2026 05:42 pmisisWhat I've recently finished reading:
The Bear and the Serpent, the second book of the Echoes of the Fall series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As with most books that have multiple storylines and POVs, there were parts I liked better than others; I was more interested in Loud Thunder's adventures as reluctant war leader (and Lone Mountain's journey to the coast) than I was in the goings-on of the River Lords. However, I really liked the bits of cultural worldbuilding there as well, particularly the Wolf priest and the Snake priest(ess) coming to an understanding, and the uneasy relationship of Asmander and Asman which sort of echoed that between Maniye and Akrit Stone River.
Toward the end, it became clear that this series ties into the Shadows of the Apt series, which I had read the first book of (Empire in Black and Gold) a while back, but didn't really feel inclined to continue. So when I finished, I grabbed book 2, Dragonfly Falling, but it only took me a few chapters before I had the "yeah, nah" feeling again, so I guess I won't read that series.
What I'm reading now:
I was about to buy book 3 but then my library hold on Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo came in unexpectedly quickly (wychwood had reviewed it and it sounded up my alley) so I'm reading that now - hey, it's got people who turn into animals too!
What I've recently finished watching:
S2 of The Empress, which was really enjoyable. The setting of a great power in decline desperately trying to hold onto its glory through ill-advised military ventures is great escapism from...oh, never mind. They do have more magnificent dresses, though!
Actually one thing that struck me about this series is that although the women are formally valued only in their ability to produce boy babies, the narrative highlights their strength, the way they are the iron rods stapling things together. They may be swaddled in yards of cloth that make it difficult to run through the forest, but Elisabeth goes out and looks the people in the eye and talks to them, Sophie has a place at the council table, Charlotte gives Maximilian advice (and he listens) - well, they all give men advice, and the men ignore them at their peril.
What I'm playing now:
Still Ghost of Tsushima. Getting close to the end of the first part, I think!
The Bear and the Serpent, the second book of the Echoes of the Fall series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As with most books that have multiple storylines and POVs, there were parts I liked better than others; I was more interested in Loud Thunder's adventures as reluctant war leader (and Lone Mountain's journey to the coast) than I was in the goings-on of the River Lords. However, I really liked the bits of cultural worldbuilding there as well, particularly the Wolf priest and the Snake priest(ess) coming to an understanding, and the uneasy relationship of Asmander and Asman which sort of echoed that between Maniye and Akrit Stone River.
Toward the end, it became clear that this series ties into the Shadows of the Apt series, which I had read the first book of (Empire in Black and Gold) a while back, but didn't really feel inclined to continue. So when I finished, I grabbed book 2, Dragonfly Falling, but it only took me a few chapters before I had the "yeah, nah" feeling again, so I guess I won't read that series.
What I'm reading now:
I was about to buy book 3 but then my library hold on Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo came in unexpectedly quickly (
wychwood had reviewed it and it sounded up my alley) so I'm reading that now - hey, it's got people who turn into animals too!What I've recently finished watching:
S2 of The Empress, which was really enjoyable. The setting of a great power in decline desperately trying to hold onto its glory through ill-advised military ventures is great escapism from...oh, never mind. They do have more magnificent dresses, though!
Actually one thing that struck me about this series is that although the women are formally valued only in their ability to produce boy babies, the narrative highlights their strength, the way they are the iron rods stapling things together. They may be swaddled in yards of cloth that make it difficult to run through the forest, but Elisabeth goes out and looks the people in the eye and talks to them, Sophie has a place at the council table, Charlotte gives Maximilian advice (and he listens) - well, they all give men advice, and the men ignore them at their peril.
What I'm playing now:
Still Ghost of Tsushima. Getting close to the end of the first part, I think!
Lake Lewisia #1359
Jan. 21st, 2026 04:33 pmscrubjayspeaksThe ability to call lightning bolts out of the clear blue sky might have empowered some to acts of heroism or villainy or naked self-enrichment. On the other hand, it could be a power granted to a glassmaker and sculptor who was more interested in the organic shape of lightning-melted sand left behind as a side effect of their origin story. Ze learned to control hir new power by zapping increasingly tiny mounds of increasingly exotic materials until they could make sculptures pour themselves like water out of a spark at hir command.
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Serene and calm.
Jan. 21st, 2026 06:15 pmhannahReading Jean Baudrillard these days remains rewarding and thought-provoking, except for the occasional moment where he starts talking about nuclear proliferation and I realize he's taken several hundred words to say what Tom Lehrer could manage with just a fraction of that.
[food] parsnip risotto, redux
Jan. 21st, 2026 11:11 pmkaberettBack in November I made a ridiculously overengineered parsnip risotto, as a way of dipping a toe into my next cookbook project. I said at the time that it was very tasty, and also I was unlikely to ever make it again.
Don't trust your lying ears, says Trump's propaganda princess
Jan. 21st, 2026 11:00 pmdailykos_feedIn yet another sign that we are living in an Orwellian hellscape, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday told Americans not to believe their own ears when they heard President Donald Trump confuse Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his rambling speech in Davos, Switzerland.
Leavitt made the ridiculous claim in a post on X, in which she angrily responded to NewsNation reporter Libbey Dean, who pointed out that Trump "appeared to mix up Greenland and Iceland around three times."
"No he didn’t, Libby," Leavitt replied, misspelling the reporter's name in the process. "His written remarks referred to Greenland as a 'piece of ice' because that’s what it is. You’re the only one mixing anything up here."
Let's roll the tape, shall we?
During his speech, Trump blamed a recent stock market drop on “Iceland,” saying, "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
He again made the flub when talking about our NATO allies’ distaste for his threats of annexing Greenland, saying, "Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."
And while Trump did refer to Greenland as a "piece of ice," that is likely what caused the 79-year-old to mix up the name of the territory he wants to conquer.
“It must genuinely suck to be Trump's flak and feel obligated to lie about the dumbest shit all the time. Just yesterday, Trump went to the press briefing room and complained that Leavitt her team suck at their jobs. Now she has to deny reality,” Tommy Vietor, a former aide in Barack Obama’s White House, wrote in a post on X.
Of course, we won’t shed a single tear for Trump’s propaganda princess.
But the most likely explanation for why she is debasing herself is that Leavitt's audience is not the American public but Trump himself, who is obsessed with optics and with looking like the strongman he aspires to be. Her gaslighting was almost certainly an attempt to appease her Dear Leader, whose ego cannot handle being the laughingstock of the world.
It's hard to believe that anyone would believe Leavitt's lies otherwise.
But as famed author George Orwell wrote, "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
I'm gonna need a tag for this aren't I, goddammit
Jan. 21st, 2026 10:27 pmcosmolinguistA Minnesotan friend read out to me a social media post that went something like "If you know any Minnesotans, you'll know that we take every opportunity to bring up Minnesota and Minnesotan things." The next sentence started something like, "If we manage to expel this ICE invasion..." but I don't remember properly because by the time I heard that much of this sentence I was already sitting up from where I'd been lounging on the couch, so when the sentence ended with "...you'll be hearing about it for the next twenty years."
"Twenty?!" I said. "We're still talking about the Halloween storm of 1991 and that's more than twenty years ago! I think people will be hearing about this for, more like two hundred years."
He scrolled down and chuckled, read out a comment that might not have been understandable because he was still laughing, but I knew what he was saying "This comment says, 'I remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991.' "
Speaking of October 1991, I was just thinking the other day we'll be hearing about the World Series of 1991, and 1987, at the very least every time it's another 5 or 10 years after those dates, for the very least as long as any of those players are still alive.
I said that I remembered hearing about, like, the 5-year-anniversary of that time there was a raccoon on the MPR building.
We are never gonna let you forget, you'll be hearing about this for ever. I guarantee it.
I can't wait (to be talking about this in the past tense).
What happened to the 10% credit card rates Trump promised?
Jan. 21st, 2026 10:00 pmdailykos_feedBack on Jan. 9, Mad King Donald Trump promised credit card interest rates would be slashed by Tuesday, Jan. 20.
“Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration,” the addled president wrote on Truth Social. “AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%.”
That Trumpian promise, like so many others, immediately ran into reality. As expected, the banking industry ignored him, either expecting a TACO moment—because Trump Always Chickens Out—or assuming his attention would drift elsewhere, as it so often does (Greenland!).
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Mixed signals from the administration reinforced that initial instinct.
“It seems like they’re not only ignoring it, but they’re being told to ignore it by the most senior economic policy makers in the Trump administration,” Mike Pierce, executive director of the consumer debt nonprofit Protect Borrowers, told USA Today.
That disconnect raises an obvious question: Was this cap ever meant to actually happen?
When writing about this last week, I argued this would go nowhere, as I didn’t think Trump had the power to govern by tweet. But Substacker Malcolm Little King outlined four different legal mechanisms Trump could theoretically use to impose a credit card interest rate cap.
None would be immune from legal challenge, but Malcolm argued that this would almost be beside the point. The mere risk that such a challenge might fail could be enough to freeze the credit card industry, as banks would pull back from issuing or even maintaining credit rather than gamble on years of legal uncertainty.
Malcolm also argued there was no way Trump could back down. But there are, in fact, lots of ways.
Trump could simply pretend he never posted the tweet in the first place. Who is going to punish him for it, especially as the world braces for his attempts to dismantle the postwar security order and his obsession with realigning the United States with rogue states like Russia and Belarus?
Instead of following through on his promise,Trump used his Jan, 20 deadline date to hold a press conference touting his first year’s greatest hits—and there was not a single mention of 10% credit card rates. Of course, there’s always the possibility that he wakes up tomorrow and decides to rage about credit card interest all over again. With Trump, nothing is ever settled.
What is clear is that the substance was never the point. Trump doesn’t care about affordability, or about people he would dismiss as losers for carrying debt. He slipped up and showed his hand when he called affordability a “hoax.”
Some of his advisers may be urging him to strike a more populist pose to blunt Democratic advantages heading into the midterm elections that his party is widely expected to lose. But Trump is too unfocused, and too consumed by his own impulses, to stick with any such strategy. His megalomania demands conquest, whether it’s Greenland or Venezuela, and submission, whether it’s Minneapolis or any other city or group who resists him.
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Which brings us back to that stupid tweet. If Trump was serious, he could work through Congress, potentially even with Democratic support, to turn that demand to cut credit card interest rates into reality. Instead, this latest instance of Trump’s random ramblings appears, at least for now, to have been discarded.
It joins the pile of Trump’s other forgotten populist promises, including $5,000 DOGE checks, $2,000 tariff checks, and the vow to eliminate taxes on tips, Social Security benefits, and overtime pay.
Democrats won’t let GOP cover for Trump on Epstein scandal
Jan. 21st, 2026 09:30 pmdailykos_feedHouse Republicans want to pretend that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the only worthwhile focus of the Epstein files scandal, but unfortunately for them, Democrats are ready to dismantle their desperate attempt to run interference for President Donald Trump.
During a Wednesday hearing for the House Oversight Committee, Democrats tore into Attorney General Pam Bondi’s failure to release the government’s files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Trump’s. The administration was required by law to release all the files over a month ago.
Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw of Virginia synthesized the case against Bondi, calling her actions a clear cover-up. He displayed one of the many fully redacted datasets included in the less than 1% of the files that have been released so far.
“Despite clear legal requirements and a law that Donald Trump signed, a subpoena that you signed, Mr. Chairman [Rep. James Comer], and repeated public promises, Attorney General Bondi has failed to release the files,” Walkinshaw said, describing the “sliver” of material disclosed a mockery.
Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida underscored the need for subpoenas of the staff of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. He also emphasized Democrats’ commitment to universal transparency.
“I don't care if you're a Democrat, I don't care if you're Republican,” Frost said. “I'm tired of rich people trying to evade justice and accountability, period. But you can't do it just for the party you disagree with.”
Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico—who did yeoman’s work in exposing the sham theatrics of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—lifted the veil on a GOP more interested in producing sound bites for right-wing media than investigating alleged crimes.
“If this was actually about getting to the bottom of this case and actually holding individuals accountable for the crimes that were committed by Jeffrey Epstein, by Ghislaine Maxwell, by the associates, and the many, many people who are implicated in this case, what would be happening right now in this committee is that Pam Bondi and DOJ [Department of Justice] officials would be sitting right there on the witness panel, answering questions under oath,” she said.
Democrats hit the same important point: Trump’s Department of Justice remains in violation of a bipartisan law—and the GOP is carrying their dirty water for them.
Why Trump’s upcoming Iowa trip is the start of a GOP death march
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:30 pmdailykos_feedPresident Donald Trump will travel to Iowa next week to kick off his series of weekly speeches on the economy—the most important issue to voters in the 2026 midterm elections.
The fact that Trump is starting in Iowa is a major sign of just how much trouble Republicans are poised to find themselves in during the upcoming midterms.
Trump carried Iowa by 14 points in 2024, an improvement from his 8-point lead in 2020. But Trump's idiotic trade policy has hit Iowa farmers hard.
The state’s farmers rely heavily on soybean exports, which have fallen off a cliff after Trump started an unnecessary trade war with China—the largest purchaser of the crop. Now, for five months in a row, China has not purchased any U.S. soybeans, a move that’s devastating Iowa farmers.
Iowa has a number of critical races, including open-seat contests for Senate and governor, as well as two toss-up House races that could decide which party controls the chamber.
If Trump is having to campaign in Iowa to save those seats, then Republicans are in for a world of hurt this November as a number of races are being held in areas where Trump didn’t perform nearly as well in past elections.
And it's unclear how Trump's speeches will actually help his fortunes.
His go-to messaging on the high cost of living is to call it a “hoax” and to tell Americans that they should simply buy fewer things. I’m going to venture a guess and say that’s why the most recent Economist/YouGov poll found that just 36% of Americans think Trump cares about them.
No matter how much Trump lies about prices going down, Americans know what they’re paying. It's perhaps the one issue where Trump can't lie his way to success.
But even if he could, Trump is unable to stay on message. That’s something we've all witnessed over the past two days as he rambled like a madman during a White House press conference and showed clear signs of cognitive decline in an equally batshit-crazy speech at the World Economic Forum.
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It's hard to see how Americans will watch that buffoonery and still vote for sycophantic Republicans who refuse to rein Trump in.
Indeed, a focus group conducted by Navigator Research found that people who voted for Trump in 2024 are now having regrets, turned off by his behavior and lack of progress on bringing down prices.
Ultimately, Trump's approval is in the toilet as voters grow tired of his chaos. And Republicans are deluding themselves if they think sending Trump out on the campaign trail will help.
Cartoon: Trumpisphere
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:29 pmdailykos_feedA cartoon by Clay Bennett.
Related | Denmark tells Trump to cut the sh-t about taking over Greenland
Newsom rips into Trump's 'jaw-dropping' Davos speech
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:00 pmdailykos_feedDuring his trip to Davos, Switzerland, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the plain truth about President Donald Trump’s long-winded and barely coherent speech.
After Newsom dismissed the speech as “remarkably boring” and “insignificant,” CNN's Kaitlyn Collins noted that it also displayed Trump’s familiar ignorance of foreign affairs, such as when the president repeatedly confused Iceland for Greenland.
“And that every time a windmill turns, it costs $1,000,” Newsom added, referring to another of Trump’s remarks. “It's really some jaw-dropping and remarkable statements that just fly in the face of facts and evidence and common sense. But you've heard them over and over and over again and again. For a European audience, that may have been a new speech. My God.”
Newsom has proven particularly effective at harnessing many Americans’ anger and frustration toward Trump’s authoritarian tactics and persona.
As European leaders are forced to endure Trump’s drivel while he pushes his imperialist fantasies, some appear to be taking note of Newsom’s approach. Unfortunately, the speediest way out of this nightmare remains in the hands of the cowardly Republican Party.
Media lauds Trump’s Davos speech as ‘very strong’ as world cringes
Jan. 21st, 2026 07:00 pmdailykos_feedMainstream media outlets on Wednesday once again reported on a strange, rambling speech by President Donald Trump as if it were a normal presentation, continuing the tradition of “sanewashing” his rhetoric and misinforming their audiences.
Trump’s presentation before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had him referring to Greenland mistakenly as Iceland as part of his near-constant fuming about the need for the United States to take over sovereign territory.
But soon after the speech was over, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer characterized Trump’s rant “very strong,” betraying the haphazard and unfocused remarks that had just aired on the news network.
The New York Times reported on the speech in a piece headlined “Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland but Rules Out Sending Troops.” That was based on Trump’s statement, “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.”
But this ignores Trump’s considerable history during his time as a tabloid media figure, a reality TV host, and as a politician during which he has lied with abandon. Trump’s claim that he would not use force against Greenland should rationally be put in context of his past claim that President Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen (a lie) or that climate change was a “hoax” from China (a massive lie).
During his Davos speech, Trump also claimed that in Greenland, which he referred to as Iceland, they “love me, they call me daddy.” But just this past weekend, a large protest against Trump was held in Greenland, not to mention remarks from Danish leadership.
The strange “daddy” comment—conservatives are obsessed with this cringe-inducing rhetoric—was not noted in the Times report. It was also scrubbed from the Washington Post and Associated Press write-ups.
As they did in his first term, the mainstream media is reporting on a version of Trump that does not exist. They paint Trump as a far more sober and sane person than the man the entire world, including millions of Americans, can see right before their very eyes.
His actions and remarks create global instability and lead to loss of life. But for the mainstream press, sanitizing Trump takes precedent over reporting the truth.
a fool for another day
Jan. 21st, 2026 02:07 pmmusesfoolI did indeed get in bed by 9:30 last night and slept pretty hard. I probably could have slept even more, but 11 hours is a pretty good night!
For some reason, I woke up with Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik in my head, and when I wondered to![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
angelgazing whatever happened to him, she said he co-wrote Spring Awakening, which I did not know, so good for him! From one-hit wonder to Tony winner!
On the Mets front, they finally got a centerfielder in Luis Robert Jr. I guess if he can stay healthy, he'll be an upgrade over last year, offensively at least, though I am still a Tyrone Taylor fan for his A+ defense. #better call tyrone
In other sports news, my attempt to get interested in basketball seems to have done serious damage to the Knicks. They have been losing a lot lately. Plus, everyone I mentioned it to was like, don't do that. I didn't realize people in my wider circle felt that way about basketball. I guess there's always the Liberty! I should figure out when that season starts. Or the Sirens for hockey, but I don't think they've been very good either. Just a bad time all round for NY sports, I guess. And it's not like I'm a fair weather fan, though this certainly sounds like it - it's just I'd like to root for a team that isn't completely terrible, you know? As a treat!
On the books front, there is finally cover art and a real blurb for Dungeon Crawler Carl 8: Parade of Horribles, but still no Kindle* or e-book edition, so I broke down and pre-ordered the hardcover. (I can't do audiobooks. I've tried.) I also decided to do a reread of the series, because I've been trying to map out all the various stuff that needs resolving - and it is A LOT - so I wanted it to be fresh in my mind. So at some point there will be a post that is basically me as that Charlie Day-at-the-murder-board meme trying to figure it all out. *hands*
*I realize that I probably need to do a "free trial" of Kindle Unlimited to get the Kindle edition but I do not want to do that at this time. As the release date gets closer, we'll see if a Kindle edition shows up and I end up cancelling the hardcover, as I would prefer not to buy a hardcover tbh. I have all the rest on kindle, which is where I do 99.5% of my book-reading these days.
So anyway, I guess for the Wednesday reading meme, I just finished a reread of book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl and started rereading book 2: Carl's Doomsday Scenario. And I will probably read book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook after that and so on and so forth. *wry*
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For some reason, I woke up with Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik in my head, and when I wondered to
On the Mets front, they finally got a centerfielder in Luis Robert Jr. I guess if he can stay healthy, he'll be an upgrade over last year, offensively at least, though I am still a Tyrone Taylor fan for his A+ defense. #better call tyrone
In other sports news, my attempt to get interested in basketball seems to have done serious damage to the Knicks. They have been losing a lot lately. Plus, everyone I mentioned it to was like, don't do that. I didn't realize people in my wider circle felt that way about basketball. I guess there's always the Liberty! I should figure out when that season starts. Or the Sirens for hockey, but I don't think they've been very good either. Just a bad time all round for NY sports, I guess. And it's not like I'm a fair weather fan, though this certainly sounds like it - it's just I'd like to root for a team that isn't completely terrible, you know? As a treat!
On the books front, there is finally cover art and a real blurb for Dungeon Crawler Carl 8: Parade of Horribles, but still no Kindle* or e-book edition, so I broke down and pre-ordered the hardcover. (I can't do audiobooks. I've tried.) I also decided to do a reread of the series, because I've been trying to map out all the various stuff that needs resolving - and it is A LOT - so I wanted it to be fresh in my mind. So at some point there will be a post that is basically me as that Charlie Day-at-the-murder-board meme trying to figure it all out. *hands*
*I realize that I probably need to do a "free trial" of Kindle Unlimited to get the Kindle edition but I do not want to do that at this time. As the release date gets closer, we'll see if a Kindle edition shows up and I end up cancelling the hardcover, as I would prefer not to buy a hardcover tbh. I have all the rest on kindle, which is where I do 99.5% of my book-reading these days.
So anyway, I guess for the Wednesday reading meme, I just finished a reread of book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl and started rereading book 2: Carl's Doomsday Scenario. And I will probably read book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook after that and so on and so forth. *wry*
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