The other day at my kid’s robotics club event, when he and a ton of other kids got to show off their lego robot submarines with cute poster displays featuring crayon drawings of undersea life, each poster also prominently displayed a cute, AI-generated team mascot. | mossyskull.com
I'm not sure this is the appropriate place for this, but I'm off fb and a lot of people asked me to share it, especially for those who couldn't be present. I hope I can do this without falling apart, because my dad deserves to be celebrated. He led an amazing life. He was a| The Mossy Skull
The other day at my kid’s robotics club event, when he and a ton of other kids got to show off their lego robot submarines with cute poster displays featuring crayon drawings of undersea life, … The post The Future of STEM Is Death first appeared on The Mossy Skull.| The Mossy Skull
I'm no kind of food blogger, but visiting people I love and don't get to see all the time always motivates me to go further—one might say overboard—and then when everybody likes it and asks for the recipe, of course I want to share what I've learned. I think this will be my first fully| The Mossy Skull
After Trump/Vance's horrifically racist and fascist Madison Square Garden rally the other night did everything it could to invite comparisons to the pro-Nazi rally held at the same venue in 1939, it feels imperative to me to go all-out in resisting that truly awful impending future. As I saw someone say this morning on Bluesky| The Mossy Skull
This weekend is Word on the Street! It’s Toronto’s biggest book festival, my publisher Stelliform Press is there every year and loves it, so I’m excited too. Handselling books is incredibly rewarding when you love … The post Upcoming Events Part 3 – Word on the Street first appeared on The Mossy Skull.| The Mossy Skull
This Friday I will be reading and talking with Ursula Whitcher about our two new books, her collection North Continent Ribbon and my novel The Jaguar Mask, at BookSweet, an indie bookstore in Ann Arbor, … The post Upcoming Events Part 2 – BookSweet first appeared on The Mossy Skull.| The Mossy Skull
I have a bunch of events coming up where I will be promoting and/or selling my debut novel The Jaguar Mask and/or other Stelliform Press titles and/or Reckoning! This schedule above is a work in progress. More TK! But the first event is less than a week away. Phew, this book promo business is no| The Mossy Skull
My first novel came out yesterday. This is all new territory. When you've been dreaming of publishing a novel since you were 16, not just dreaming but working for it, growing, honing skills, interacting with writers and publishers year after year at events, readings, workshops, retreats, volunteering with indie presses, starting your own press etc,| The Mossy Skull
Degrowth: that's the idea that, given endless growth is and always was a capitalist delusion, we should all actively be going in the other direction, making less money, being less productive, buying fewer things, taking up less space, expending fewer resources. A lot of people get really grumpy when they hear about it, because obviously:| The Mossy Skull
So much for sugaring season. All that excellent advice from my homestead and permaculture garden books telling me to keep herbs and plants I'll use most frequently closest to my kitchen door wasn't meant to apply in February. But this year, thanks to catastrophic climate change tipping points, I had a near-endlessly replenishing bucket of| The Mossy Skull
A "missing stair" is a horrible person in a community who is such a fixture that everybody just habitually does the extra work to avoid them rather than pointing at the problem or trying to fix it. Everybody, that is, except the people who can't, either because they're new and haven't heard or have been| The Mossy Skull
I just wanted to do a little homage to the trash apples of 2023. It seems it will have been a very good year, and some of these trees may not have many years left. I find them, I get to know their fruit, then I lose them and have to mourn them a little,| The Mossy Skull