Michael Scott Phillips

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Author, Artist, Designer
Fighting chronic illness and bureaucracy one step at a time.

Beyond the Empyrean, my space opera novel is now available at Amazon and B&N. Also the author of Quite Quite Fantastic! The Avengers for Modern Viewers.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Michael-Scott-Phillips/author/B08TB3MYG3

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MY LATEST BOOKBeyond the Empyrean, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B667DSY1

John Mac & Ruthanne Kah are two good friends of mine. They are very generous people who have helped many other artists in the community through their Saints of Paint organization. Their studio was destroyed during Helene. Please help them out if you're in a position to do so.

https://gofund.me/4dd52cdd

MAGA Can Have Their Hate Cult. They Can't Have America.

It’s a cult.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz

Rugged mountain woman shows what life in Marshall, NC is really like after the flooding from Helene. Take it from me, she is so very WNC. And this is a very real disaster like I've never seen before.

https://youtu.be/1Mr7CMTmxpI?si=5PBQDGRuF4rIX0HB

Hurricane Helene. What's really happening in Western NC Days 5 & 6.

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This is a Kickstarter project by a friend of mine in Asheville. Please help out the project if you can, and spread the word!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geekorthodox/shire-stained-glass?ref=thanks-copy

Can't seem to think about anything but the disaster in my other home state, NC, and all my friends there. Most of them have checked in, but I still haven't heard from two elderly friends who live in Swannanoa where much of the flooding happened.

Apparently, my former home of Asheville NC got hit by severe flooding due to Helene. It might seem counterintuitive that a mountainous area would be prone to flooding, but Asheville very much is. It's in a valley and all the runoff from the mountains races into it. Helene is like Ivan and Frances in 2004 all over again. Best wishes to all my friends who live there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/local/weather/dangerous-flooding-washes-through-asheville/2024/09/27/1480e1cd-1a74-4de3-98f6-87773ce2f6d2_video.html

Dangerous flooding washes through Asheville

Fast moving flood waters poured through the streets of Asheville, N.C., after Tropical Storm Helene brought heavy rain to the area on Sept. 27.

My favorite film of hers is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It was the film that really established her internationally, and it's almost like she's playing a young Professor McGonagall. 😢

https://apnews.com/article/actress-maggie-smith-dies-03a7b4143cc54b14bc7d9bca24ed1f9a

Maggie Smith, famed for Harry Potter and 'Downton Abbey,' dies at 89

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, has died at 89. Smith's publicist announced the news Friday. She was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench. “Jean Brodie” brought her the Academy Award for best actress in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for “California Suite” in 1978.

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There! It's settled. As I've been saying for years, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a gay romance story. The Metatron has spoken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpQSf12VAAM

The Truth About The Sumerian Leader Gilgamesh

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"Concepts of a plan" has become the new "binders full of women" and the dog- and cat-eating thing is just effing bonkers.

You've had Star Trek day, but now it's Space: 1999 day!
September 13th, the day the moon was blasted out of orbit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3-AVQosLY

#Space1999Day

Space: 1999 (1975-77). Part One: Let's Party Like it's Space :1999

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