Over educated hillbilly, iconoclastic teacher of yoga, Pilates;and, science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird lit.,comic books, and graphic novels at IUPUI.
It's strange to me to see tweets from people who identified Trump as a fascist, yet speak of the 2028 election as if they're just assuming there will be one. The fight is far from over, and I have great hopes of winning, but I cannot imagine things going "back to normal."
I got hit with a short story idea: a guy goes back in time to the Garden of Eden and gives Adam a gift of camping gear. Although, as a writer, I'm not really comfortable with first person present tents.
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible
“The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!”
― John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up, 1972.