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It’s not every day that I get insider information like this.  Are you ready? Brew your coffee, friends, and have a seat. Because this is not simply a bankruptcy story, this is ego, spite, infighting, and disastrous business decisions. This is the story of those in the room who weren’t decision-makers.  This is the story of regular people who saw abhorrent behavior and shockingly bad choices being made but could do nothing.

For many years, vanilla has been the most popular ice cream flavor in America, and maybe because I don’t live there anymore, no one asked me. Don’t get me wrong, I love vanilla ice cream. It’s my fail-safe choice to go with pie, cobblers, and crisps, but for just plain eating, anything with chocolate in it gets my vote every time. Well, almost… When we were in the Languedoc on vacation last summer—which was only six weeks ago, but now that it’s cold and raining in Paris, it seems like it’s been forever since we sat by the sea and ate oysters with cold rosé—we stopped in the little épicerie in our village, which had a freezer full of ice creams from a local producer.

Swoosie Kurtz is an actor’s actor—or actress, as she’s happy to be called—still working constantly at 77, which is all most actors want. Next month, she stars in the second season of “Call Me Kat,” a Fox sitcom, exactly 60 years after she first appeared on “The Donna Reed Show.“ Swoosie is probably best known for “Fifth of July” and “The House of Blue L… ncG1vNJzZminnJm0sK3TrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyzwcyipZqsmaO0bsPIrZ9mq6ekvLS1xGairqqkrw%3D%3D

Same prize for running less kilometres, all to prove gender equality! It makes complete sense. Also, satire is dead! A mini-marathon to raise support for “Gender Equality” has the men running 10km and the women running 5km. If that doesn’t prove there’s no difference between males and females, nothing will. Maybe the ladies only wanted 5km of equality. In addition, it means the ladies will likely finish before the men, thus proving women are as physically capable, if not more-so.

Run, Fool! follows an anthology format in the style of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history. We’ve got some deliciously terrifying stories to tell, and an exciting list of folks joining in on the fun. So just know, when it gets too scary, you can always Run, Fool! Some episodes include —

Currently I have a Hyve Zeuss 1U server running in my home lab. It is a modest setup with 32GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores. In the future I will be looking to upgrade the RAM. In my previous post I mentioned that I was running pi-hole as “the spine” of my homelab. That pihole instance is running on my home server. Since I am currently working for a company that uses kubernetes extensively, I decided to add kubernetes to my homelab as the runtime for all my services, internal and external.

In Story Cauldron, I write about storytelling, share my fiction, and occasionally post updates about my own writing journey. Today I’ll be sharing what I’m working on this November. Every November since 2013 I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and almost every year, I’ve drafted a new novel (I worked on existing projects a couple times, but that’s never as much fun). There’s something magical about entering a new world and meeting new characters for the very first time.

There are a lot of things white people take for granted — and one of them is ease of movement. I don't mean, like, the ability to move your body without feeling creaks and cracks, I mean actually moving oneself — across town, across the country, by foot, by car, by train, by plane — without question. That assertion is complicated, of course, by other parts of a person's identity, but the general pass of whiteness remains in place: the understanding that in a white body, I will almost certainly be given the benefit of the doubt, and that my presence in a space will not be immediately understood as threatening or suspect.

I am a little ashamed that I hadn’t previously brought up my early heroes in my articles. There is no particular reason, other than a surfeit of subjects and commissions that have taken up my time – quite apart from making my own art. Only today I heard of the death of Russ Nicholson (d. May 2023), Scottish fantasy illustrator, whose career began in the 1970s. His line illustrations for The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982), the first in the Fighting Fantasy series of books, played a part in me becoming an artist.