Daniel Hatch

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Episode #987 of Things in the Sky Don't Look Like Their Photos on the Internet

The Supermoon stops being super when it moves away from the horizon. When it's directly overhead, it's just the moon.

It is, of course, super enough to make it impossible to see the Pleiades, which it was occluding.

We've had our dog Molly for six years now. She's a black lab from Arkansas -- shy, timid, nearly feral, probably 3 years in a barn being ignored. But every few months, she has leveled up, gained a new skill.

Today she barked. For only the second time in six years.

"Do you like to write?"

No ... I like to jump up and dance around the room when suddenly I look at the page and say "Wow -- I didn't see that coming!"

My great-grandfather was a teenager during the Civil War.

Cheney is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

I loved that game. I have it on my computer this very moment. I played it a couple of months ago when I found it on Steam.

I've got an idea.

You could buy both of them.

SEED OF WISDOM goes on sale Nov. 15

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Latest book finished processing today. Proof copies are on their way. Sale date is Nov. 15.

Coming soon ... the long-awaited sequel. On sale Nov. 15.

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The international economic barometer at the end of my street has been stuck on $2.89 a gallon all year now.

We are all Izzy Stone!

I was told the first week of Journalism 101 that "very" adds no information to your writing. I say this as a newspaper editor for 25 years.

Want to know the secrets of writing narrative fiction? Here's a post about the two books every writer should check out.

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Writing a story is like lining up 8,000 dominoes on a great big stage. When you read it for the first time complete it's like knocking the first one down ... and watching all the rest follow in rigorous, regular order. Except that I get to do it again, without having to set them up again.
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"Son of Kong" -- the sequel to "King Kong" -- begins with Carl Denholm hiding in his girlfriend's apartment from the process servers working for all the people who are suing him for the damage done by the great ape.

Miller and Noem should keep in mind that the personal injury lawsuits will be epic.

Most surreal night of TV in history: CNN live coverage of Rodney King verdict protests, PBS Frontline on Democrats selling out to the lobbyists, FOX-TV "They Live"

So he wants more racism and fewer reports of sexual assault because guys with glasses running drones and watching computers aren't scary enough for guys like him, who learned everything they know about the military from reading Sgt. Rock comic books.

These are the days Rod Serling warned us about ...

Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth too.

I'm not a Mainer, but I was raised by them. My grandfather was a carpenter, among other things. When he was my age, he was building scale miniature furniture, tables, chairs, hutches in his den. I built my own desk, table, bedframe, nightstands, and a hutch. Go for it!!!