I moved a lot when I was a kid. From birth to 18YO: Wichita, Royal Oak, Iowa City, Ft. Lauderdale, Stone Mountain, Decatur GA, Hardy AR, Jacksonville AR, back to Iowa City. And about the same, maybe more, as an adult. Point is, I know from starting over. So, here I am.

welp I haven't really been posting much here at the new site but since the purge is going down at the old one, thought I ought to start arranging my furniture and hanging my posters over here

New cartoon, about that thing that happened. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/28/2138345/-Cartoon-That-thing-that-happened

it's about to get even worse over on the bird site. Glad to have somewhere else to hang out.

Five years since the worst thanksgiving of my life, having to sit politely and make small talk when most of the people at the table did not know what was going on, that my marriage had collapsed a couple of days before, in an ugly and brutal way that left me totally blindsided.

And, just to re-post (are these still "toots" or did that get dropped?) this one, which feels relevant to the interests of pretty much anyone following me here: https://thenib.com/the-blithering-idiot/

I don't know what we call subtweeting over here but man, sometimes there's a whole damn novel hidden between the lines of a book's acknowledgements page.