Kurt R.A. Giambastiani's Blog

with paper before me and a pen in my hand a cloud is rising blooming billowing scudding cumulus nimbus a thunderhead dark foreboding airy bright with paper before me and a brush in my hand a cloud is gradients reflective limned shadowed grey sunlit white rounded flat-topped with paper before me and nothing in my […]

Republicans are blaming the Democrats for the shutdown and, following the standard congressional “I’m rubber, you’re glue” playbook, Democrats are blaming the GOP in turn. That’s a weak, schoolyard response, and I’m sick of that game. Here’s what I want to hear from Democrats:

I was born of Pacific waters

I write to express my strong support for your recent vote to REJECT the continuing resolution to fund the government, and I beg you to hold fast and continue to fight for a negotiated bill that will undo some of the worst effects of the GOP’s efforts

With my reputation as a life-long and somewhat outspoken liberal, some can be excused for assuming that I was glad to hear that Mr. Kirk was assassinated. This is not so. I am most definitely not glad of it.

AI; the grift that keeps on grifting. Feed it, press a button, and (in the immortal words of our president) "Bing Bong Bing," there you have it: AI slop.

I took my nose on a walk, today, and let it lead me from one memory to the next.

We all are aware of folks who are fortunate to make a living at their dream job. Usually, this is a confluence of talent and hard work and luck; we "mortals" see them as world-class athletes, renowned experts, and global celebrities.

to these old eyes we none of us have aged and all are as when first we met though days and years and decades all have trundled past our feast though unforgiving fate has called a few away and left their seats unfilled and loft-bound bitterness and joy have played for us their varied minstrel […]

Having been pleasantly surprised by my recent re-read of a sci-fi/fantasy series I'd loved as a teen, I decided to extend this run of good luck and re-read another series that was influential to my own writing style (when I eventually got one).