The Male Hysteric

Hello everybody. If you're an American, you should know that it is a great day to yell at your representatives about the illegal grant disbursement hold going on right now. As of this post the soonest they are going to meet on this thing they admit is an emergency is tomorrow. I know my emergencies can't wait that long! Anyway, calling your reps only takes a few minutes and overloading them with calls can be quite effective!

If you need help finding numbers to call, look here. Make sure to call ONLY your senators and representative.

Don't know what to say? Celeste Pewter has written a nice script here on Bluesky. Just say something! It really only takes a few minutes from your day!

Also, anything else the government is doing getting you down? Call your reps early and often. At the very least yelling at them is cathartic. Let them know they're doing a shit job. That's your job.

Well, today I was at therapy and we were figuring out our schedule for the next month or so, and I realized that my next appointment is on US election day, so that's terrifying.

I've finished reading all 10 novels for this year, but I do not have a write up for them yet, I am working on it. Right now my thoughts are, I am not sure if I'm going to read any more novels this year. Probably, because there's still two months left, but also I feel like I have a lot of non-fiction and short readings to catch up on, so maybe not. Next year, I'm thinking of maybe going for twelve novels?

I saw a production of a play version of Frankenstein and it makes me very curious about the version that Mary Shelley saw before she did her rewrites. It also makes me wonder if I should hurry up and make my own interpretation because it does seem new compared to most interpretations.

I am also maybe starting to get into zines? If I find any interesting ones online I may post them here, though a linklist for online zines seems like something I'd put on my static site. I have been thinking of making my own, but it may not end up a zine. It's something about how moderation on the internet is the secret sauce that holds everything together and people don't realize it and it's why we can't have nice things and why we can't seem to "go back" to a simpler internet. But it may be too long or meandering to make a proper zine, I don't know.

I am also, well, still working on the same science fiction novel. Who knows how that will go.