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1. All caught up on Manifest -- good news, it didn't go where I thought it was going...bad news, it is even more convoluted and has decided to go down that oh so slippery slope of television time travel drama. (Ugh. Television writers should stop trying to do time travel. Unless they can outline and plot the entire series in advance, block out all the twists and turns, all character arcs, etc. Which is impossible to do in television. You can do it with books and movies but not with television shows -- particularly television shows airing on broadcast network channels.)

Oh well, at least the time travel is "future" as opposed to going back in the "past". But still.

Did like the new love interest/character for Micahla, because Jarrod irritates me.

2. If you are into comics..comxicology is a great find, it provides free comics. I read half of the Buffy comics for free, also over half of the X-men comics for free. So much cheaper than buying direct from Amazon or Marvel or the comic book store. Also got the first two volumes of Saga and Ms. Marvel for free.

I continue to thank Ponygirl2000 for this recommendation.

Also digital comics are easier on the pocket book (they are discounted at 10-15% or free), and storage space.

3. I wish politicians would stop emailing me. No, I'm not going to campaign for you. No, I'm not going to give you money. I might vote for you -- depending on your platform and what evil beasties are running against you.

Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren? I'm looking at you. (If I had to choose, Kamala would get my vote, although right now I'm swinging towards Kristen Gilbrandt, my home Senator. Wish Michelle O'Bama were running in 2020-- I'd vote for her in an instant. I love Michelle O'Bama.)

4. I keep seeing articles about how 1 in 10 people are lonely. My mother wanted to send one to me. I pleaded with her not to. People have always been lonely. The only reason it's a huge epidemic now is well..the internet and social media, which is guaranteed to make you feel miserable if you spend too much time on it. Not only does it feel the need to tell all the activities you should be doing, the life you should have, and the items you should own, it also feels the need to analyze why you feel miserable in excruciating detail. Often providing you with information that frankly...you were better off not knowing.

Feel miserable?

Get off the internet and social media for a bit. Works wonders.

Every time I spend too many hours on social media -- I get really depressed and anxious. Also have troubles sleeping. And my blood pressure goes up. Seeing a pattern here.

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1. I picked up Carter and Lovecraft... for the below description...

I love this series, it’s noir crime fiction with a Lovecraftian twist. And the author made Lovecraft’s descendant a black woman as that would have really, really pissed him off.

The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.

Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he’s a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he’s never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn’t want a new boss.

She’s Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn’t want to be involved, he’s beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As he reluctantly investigates, he discovers that Lovecraft’s tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted inheritance.

Yeah, it would have pissed off Lovecraft, who was a white asshole of his time, in other words, racist and sexist. White male pulp novelists of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and noir detective fiction were as a general rule sexist and racist assholes. I know, I've read them. It's also a problem in the comic book genre and the romance genre.

That's not to say there aren't writers out there who aren't like this -- there are. You just have to read a lot of the bigoted ones to find them. I personally blame the publishing houses and ahem, the fandom. (SEE LJ circa 2004 big sci-fi fandom kerfuffle along with the HUGO Puppy kerfuffle.)

2. Netflix refuses to tell us when the big shows are premiering on it -- Lucifer, Stranger Things, Crown, basically the ones that are highly anticipated. Damn them.