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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
An update on my Patreon page, which is a lot of fun. Patrons are the first to hear about the most recent projects I'm doing before anyone else, and get behind the scenes info (photos, posters, other visual goodies) from projects old and new. patreon.com/syntheticworlds
Patrons who are supporting completion of THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS and the Ellison Estate in general are first to hear who will be in the book (original authors and new) AND are seeing the first typed pages of the original stories, marking the first time anywhere that...
...excerpts of those stories have been seen outside Ellison Wonderland.

I'm also doing full-length on-camera commentaries/reactions to Babylon 5 episodes, and will soon be doing the same for Sense8, the first time any such commentaries have been done, and there's a tier...
...for aspiring writers where I teach about writing, and critique the work of members of the writers' tier.

If you'd like to join the fun and be the first to see what's coming next, and support that effort, feel free to come on over the fence. It's a fun group.

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8 Nov 20
The "death camps" won't materialize, so that kind of nonsense attends to itself. And sometimes labels are used to discount and sometimes to illuminate. There's a reason we don't tell a child a hot stove is a pillow. That said, let me say this: I will absolutely support your --
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-- to take this into the *other* room...to go into the right wing chatrooms and twitter feeds and say, in essence, yes, all you who deliberately didn't wear masks and helped kill tens of thousands of innocent people, you who supported caging children, scapegoating immigrants --
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8 Nov 20
Biden won. Maybe the Senate soon. Now do something with it. Obama came in with a mandate but "reached across the aisle" and Mitch rope-a-doped them for six out of eight years. Let's see some real action, hearings with teeth, justice, and progressive legislation. Use it or lose it
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We cannot look to the future unless we have addressed the past, cannot know where we're going unless we know where we stand, and what we stand *for*. We beat the man but it's the policies that he supported, and which buoyed him, that now must be exposed and disassembled.
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24 Jul 20
When the virus has been beaten
And I can move around with ease,
I’ll try to find my passport
So I can travel as I please.
I’ll shop in France
And try on pants
Too young to match my style
And with effort and a prison file
(A process that might take a while
I know that I can make them fit
Unless of course I have to sit.
I’ll try new sports
I’ll ride a horse
Assuming he will let me.
I’ll buy new toys
And make some noise
So no one will forget me.
I’ll visit London, Spain and Rome
And when at last I circle home
I’ll contentedly remove my shoes
And catch up on the evening news:
An asteroid is approaching Earth
Our only hope is Colin Firth
There’s volcanoes and tsunamis
A strange shortage of salamis
An alien invasion
A leprosy contagion
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17 Jun 20
It's so hard seeing people now just pretending as though the Covid situation is over. But I also understand it. The human brain and body weren't meant to handle this much stress for this long. Stress activates the fight versus flight mechanism, and there's nothing to fight --
-- so after a while flight kicks in and we run from thinking about the problem. And there's also the issue of trauma, which happens *after* a given event. Trauma is how we process a stressful or painful situation. But we've been caught in that stressful situation now for --
-- months, and there's been no relief during which we could process that, and address the trauma, so we're getting it from both sides, the current tension *and* the brain's desperate need to process the trauma and put it behind us, which it can't do while it's all ongoing --
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15 May 20
Thank you for those generous words. I wish that the show was not as relevant as it seems to be today, that the themes we explored would, by now, be considered out of date and passe, but it seems that this is not to be our reality, at least for the present moment. In general --
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-- counter-reaction in the more liberal 60s. But by the same token, the awfulness of WW1 and the Great Depression gave us Fascists and Nazis. A similar moment awaits us. Once this is over -- and it will be, once a vaccine is delivered -- the world will need a moment to --
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23 Apr 20
A (far too) long thread concerning ideas/stories, why people shouldn’t send them to professional writers, and why they need to either accept that stipulation or find other accounts to follow.

To speak from my experience: I’ve been interacting with fans online for almost thirty--
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--with folks, time that could be used to create our own stories, movies, shows and the like. But we make that time because we are fans ourselves, and we want to give back, knowing how much it would have meant to us if some of the writers we followed were this freely accessible.--
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