Wiped Out

 I came from work, planning on seeing CC about clothes. She told me she might be coming my way. So, I read the news and email on the computer. That lasted an hour. I felt too drowsy to do anything useful, so I thought a 90-minute nap would work. It turned into three hours.

The muscle relaxers are doing me in.

After dinner, I walked down the street to see if I could see the comet. No such luck.

I worked on this and another post, after I got through some reading for the day.

I did read Steinbeck mined her research for "The Grapes of Wrath." Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed by Iris Jamahl Dunkle on Salon. I have seen similar links, but Salon is free. It raises a few question for me about Steinbeck, a writer who I felt was more relatable to than Hemingway, Faulkner, or Fitzgerald. I would like to have had more about the "her", Sanora Babb, than what is given, but there is a biography out on Ms. Babb. Then, too, there is Wikipedia. She kept writing.

LitHub published an extract from Anthony Bourdain, Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary. I miss Bourdain. Another with depression, he always seemed so sane.

Also on LitHub: “A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing.

But then, it is only what we must expect, and accept. Life itself is the “blues”—life itself breaks our hearts, which is the price we must pay for its beauty and terror.

More on Harlan Ellison: INTERVIEW: J. Michael Straczynski

I forgot to mention this rejection that came in on Sunday from  Sequestrum for "Perspectives On Sibling Rivalry". I paired two of my "Dead and Dying" stories; it was an experiment.

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Listening to Land of the Lost. Nothing more to do than get ready for work.

By the way, it is getting chilly. Autumn is here.

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