Wednesday started out well - I got through about half of revising "Theresa Pressley" in the morning. The afternoon was desultory. Something bothered my stomach and I could not get any energy going for writing. The PO put in a short visit, and I found out he had not seen my email about the job - he had not been in the office. So, he doesn't have email access except at work? I gave up trying to get to a political meeting - I just did not feel up to going. After that, I worked up enough energy to revise "The Unintended Consequences of Art" and get it out to Asimov's magazine. I also got out "The Dead and The Dying" out to Iowa Short Fiction Awards.
Tuesday had been more productive. More done with "Theresa Pressley", although nothing submitted. I got some posts done - but not my daily reporting post.
Both days I went nowhere other than the convenience store.
This morning, I submitted "Agnes" to The Talon Review.
Things that I read and could see fit to give their post.
Tuesday:
Indiana's 10 most endangered landmarks of 2025 (Fox59) and List of 'endangered' landmarks includes Kimbrough Historic District (Muncie Star-Press). From the latter:
The list — issued by Indiana Landmarks on Monday, Aug. 18 — included the Muncie district based on plans to install traffic roundabouts along Main and Jackson streets where they intersect with Madison and Hackley streets.
"Neighborhood residents believe the roundabouts would dramatically alter the character of the National Register-listed historic district, compromise its walkability, and undo decades of preservation efforts by local groups including the East Central Neighborhood Association, which maintains the Emily Kimbrough Home Museum," according to a release issued by Indiana Landmarks.
I hate roundabouts. They've become an infestation in this state.
Gregory Williams, Muncie-born author and educator, dead at 81 (NewsBreak). Not a name I heard before today.
Williams was born in Muncie in November 1943 to "a mixed-race Black father and a white woman," according to his obituary.
His book, "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He was Black," was published in 1995, and was that year's Book of the Year for the Los Angeles Times.
Williams graduated from Ball State University and worked as a sheriff's deputy while attending college. He later earned additional degrees from other universities, including a law degree from George Washington University.
The Visit by Anuk Arudpragasam (Paris Review) - a short story that I liked about a mother/daughter relationship.
Trump slammed over newest White House portrait as many point out disturbing detail (Irish Star)
X users were not as fired up about the portrait, which some described as "too accurate" and others as "too orange." Project Liberal pointed out, "Why is the country on fire behind him?"
It was a popular sentiment, as another user said, "fits. America is on fire in the background and Trump walks away..."
Other users pointed to Trump's collection of portraits of himself in the White House, especially amid reports last week that portraits of Obama and Bush have been moved to a rarely used stairwell. "The man can't get enough of himself," one user critiqued.
Trump’s remarkable statement against states’ rights (CNN Politics)
And Trump isn’t saying that Congress should outlaw mail-in voting or voting machines, mind you. Instead, he’s saying the states “must” get rid of them because he tells them to — apparently because he was elected president and because he has determined it’s “FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY.”
This is merely the latest in a long line of drastic Trump claims to power.
He often claimed during his first term that the Constitution gave him absolute power. Even when out of office, he floated terminating portions of the Constitution, while repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. And earlier this year, he posted a quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte suggesting his actions couldn’t be illegal as long as he was acting to “save” the country.
But just as striking as Trump’s claim to power on Monday was his explicit statement that states are merely his “agents.”
No, no, no. The President executes the laws passed by Congress. Governors are not his agents. All the country needs saving from is Trump's delusions that the United States is under attack.
Wednesday was videos while I worked or ate my meals:
I remain a Robert E. Howard fan - the prose purple and pulpy has an essential quality to it.
I have also been spending a lot of time with maps of Indiana streams around me. Maybe too much time.
And a sentiment I most wholeheartedly agree with: Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a ‘country club’ prison is outrageous (Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian).
We live in an unfair world. Compare Maxwell with the immigrants who’ve been apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and sent to prisons that are closer to hell on earth than to country clubs. No arts and crafts for them.
It would be a start, in this Epstein mess, to see more sincere concern for the former children who were harmed by predators; now young women or adults, they live every day with the trauma that has followed.
Trump still hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Maxwell. But he surely knows that wouldn’t sit well with his base of followers, given their antipathy for the “deep state”.
A prison transfer? That has a better chance of not arousing their all-out wrath while perhaps quieting Maxwell from spilling all she knows or springing any surprises.
And a short story from Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal by Karen Regen Tuero, AN UNKNOWN ROAD. I like the look of it.
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