Tim Lieder

I was trying to say that I feel relaxed enough to complain about things that I found trivial since November 2016 like the fact the George R.R. Martin can't finish a fucking book that he's been working on for ten years.

Yeah yeah, I know. He's not my bitch. He's taking his time. He planned a fucking trilogy and then realized that he had about a dozen dangling plot threads after Storm of Swords so he kept going. And he didn't know where the fuck to go so he sent Tyrion on a cruise and spent pages and pages in Dorne, the most boring part of the series. Not as boring as it is in the television show (did not know that I would cheer when the last Dorne characters were locked in a dungeon by Cersei to slowly die. But yeah go Cersei!) So before the television show turned a successful fantasy book series into zeitgeist, Martin was fucking around and writing two disappointing books that were all about getting the characters from one place to another.

Ok, I'm being a little harsh on these books.

They were fine books. They just weren't moving the plot that far forward. Sure, the fact that Dorne was plotting to overthrow Rob in favor of the Targaryens was fun, but the payoff was a Dornish prince getting killed by a dragon. Which is still a better ending than the television show had in store for him. And seriously D & D did the sand snakes dirty. They might have felt like extraneous characters in the book but they weren't creepy bad touch mistresses.

But seriously, George is sounding less like a hard working writer who is doing the best he can to deliver the next book in the series and more like a petulant child who can't do the one thing he's supposed to do. Oh sure, I liked the Dunk & Egg stories and the histories are fun but did you notice that as soon as those fucking things are getting popular he moves on to something else?

This was once reminiscent of the Wheel of Time series racing against the clock of mortality and more like Harlan Ellison constantly promising to deliver the last Dangerous Visions and never fucking doing it.

And I'm not terribly excited to read that Dangerous Visions now that JMS is going to finish it. It's just done.

Damn, it was so great a few years back when he released the "Mercy" chapter and we got to see Arya pretending to be an actress in a company that was putting on the play version of the series as if it was Richard III. Wasn't that the perfect chapter, really developing where Arya was going in the series while commenting on history and the ways that we aren't in charge of our stories. Wasn't that just an encapsulation of the book and its shifting narratives?

No wonder the showrunners kept using it in the series.

Too bad George released that one and then acted like he blew his load and went out for a cigarette.

And his excuse that he has so much other stuff to do? FUCK THAT. He could have been writing pages instead of hosting the Hugos.

Anyhow, read NK Jemisin or Jeff Vandermeer. They actually write books instead of blogs about football (and they also have social media presences but they don't let them overwhelm them.)

At least Scott Lynch ends his books on endings instead of cliffhangers. Sure I want to see another Gentleman Bastards book but at least he didn't stab Locke Lamora to death in the last chapter.

I don't think I'm going to like The Kitchen purely on the basis of the first minute when the soundtrack is playing "This is a Man's World" - FUCKING retire that song Hollywood. It's as boring a cliche as the Every Man has Two Wolves story (told by Chief Hacky Hacky Scriptwriter). The song isn't even being sung by James Brown. It's always a cover.

Seriously sick of GRRM and his never arriving book. I even clicked on a video with Winds of Winter news but it was just the damn blog where again he teased the publication but then went nope, I'm probably not. Five years ago I was sympathetic to the "I don't want to make promises. You're all a bunch of assholes" talk. Now it's just tedious. He's been working on the fucking book for 10 years and he's still going "I've got hundreds of pages to go". Pinch it off dude.

I didn't give a shit about the last Dangerous Visions (I read one of the original Dangerous Visions and that Piers Anthony story is creepy as hell) but I do remember wishing that Historical Illuminatus could fucking get a fourth book promised in the third book.

I joined Robinhood and Public. They both have weird rules. I am actually a little grateful that Robinhood didn't let me buy Crypto. Public just doesn't let you buy anything until the money is in. I dutifully bought AMC and NAKD for the lulz, but I also bought other stocks. Nice that they don't make you buy the whole damn thing. But of course, I really can't afford to play this too long.

Also Robinhood not only had rules against fucking over the hedgefunds, but they also don't let you day trade. Meaning you buy and sell from the same stock more than three times in the same day and you get on the shit list. Seriously how else am I supposed to make money on NAKD. That's a very shitty stock. Even if the reddit bros drive it up, they can't drive it up that much. So buying it when it's under $1 and selling it when it's $1.20 and repeating the process as the thing spirals is great.

Finished a story but now I have to revise it until the deadline for the anthology. The anthology theme is 1986. I originally had it as a story about a girl watching Punky Brewster Challenger episode while her mom kills her dad. That episode was titled "Accidents Happen."

I might put it in present tense. Basically Chip Delany mentioned that present tenses sounds like a traumatized child and since the story is about a traumatized child, it might work better that way.

But now the Punky Brewster scene at the beginning doesn't really work. I might just start it with her staying with her aunt and her mother in jail.

- I bought a cabinet. I put the cabinet together. I don't know where to put it. I bought it to replace the cabinet under the television because the drawers on that cabinet are broken. Only the new cabinet is not as big or as sturdy. It's on legs. I can see the cat jumping on it and sending everything to the ground. The cabinet under the television is a shit cabinet but it's a great television stand.

Maybe I'll put it in the kitchen. I can move the plastic boxes and use the cabinet instead. Put the cookbooks int he bottom drawer.