Listening to the 5th version of The Commander Thinks Aloud by @johnroderick this night. Solo on guitar, solo on piano, with different band constellations.

It's one of the few songs that brings tears to y eyes without fail.

I promise it will to you too, especially if you listen to the Song Exploder episode where he talks about it.

I peaked more than 20 years ago when someone told me I wrote like Douglas Adams.

I remember that every 5 years or so, and it makes me feel I am good enough.

"He had no particular interest in people or nature, only in man-made artifacts of any kind, and so he treated people and fields with an indifferent tenderness"
- from Chevengur by Andrey Platonov

Indifferent tenderness...

I love that!

Rediscovering Greg Egan. Must have been 15... 20 years since I read him last, only vague not-even-impressions remaining.

Boy am I glad I have been subconsciously nagging myself to get back into his writing.

Only three stories deep into an anthology, but I have had to pause after each one, to have it percolate a bit.

#scifi

LLMs:

Golden retriever on acid,
Or
toddler with a chainsaw on rollerblades?

Lesbian #AuDHD person liked my hair AND jacket the other day.

Never think I've felt more validated.