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Happy New Year, Tom šš„
First time (Omicron) I got it, knocked me on my ass for more than a week, tested positive for 11 days. Second time, like a bad cold and tested negative on the 6th day. Did not have anti-virals either time.
"Your future is a horror story written by your crimes," is such an absolute A+ literary line that you'd be forgiven for forgetting it comes from the Muppets.
Back at ya, Tom š„°š
Bluestockings Cooperative is an indispensible feminist bookstore in NYC. It's been a fantastic community space for as long as I can remember. Now it's facing eviction because the store is providing Narcan ā and they've actually saved lives!. Please do what you can to help. Details below...
Don't forget: bookstore T-shirts are the new concert T-shirts! Today's bookstore T-shirt comes from Uncle Hugo's Bookstore in Minneapolis, a lovely and venerable sff store which burned down a few years ago -- but triumphantly reopened last year. Please support local indie bookshops!
The Hollywood Reporter asked me to write a piece about working with Norman and Andre ā¤ļø www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
Showrunner Mike Royce reflects on the qualities his two former collaborators "shared that made them both legends."
"The White House unveiled a list of 48 drugs...whose prices increased faster than the rate of inflation...drugmakers will have to pay rebates to the federal government because of those price increases. The money will be used to lower the price Medicare enrollees pay on the drugs early next year."
Older Americans to pay less for some drug treatments as drugmakers penalized for big price jumps
Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year.
Two years ago I wrote a blog post called Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Light, about color theory for rendering dark-skinned characters. I have finally posted part two, which applies that color theory to flat, 2D styles. www.nilahmagruder.com/blog/2023/12...
This post is the follow-up to Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Light. If you haven't read that already, check it out