Categories for Musings
New Dark Ages, now
I just returned from a major book fair at the Metro Convention Centre – and, whilst I was there signing copies of Recipe For Hate (Humblebrag Alert: we ran out of copies), I saw this for the first time, in Dundurn’s 2018 catalogue:
What’s it about? Well, it’s about to get me in a lot of trouble, I reckon. It’s the most controversial book I’ve ever written, I’d say. (And it’s the second instalment in the X Gang trilogy.) Recipe For Hate has been well-received – as seen here and here and here – and I’m hoping New Dark Ageswill be, too.
Pumped. Now, back to writing the final book in the series.
New Dark Ages – revealed!
At the book fair and just spotted this. It’s official!
Point made
Now behave.
Revealed!
My new best friend.
Found this cool little guy in bathroom. Anyone know what he is? Will he make a good pet?
The guy they’d win with is the guy who won’t run for them
Suggests to me he’s doing a good job doing what he’s doing.
https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/958873423563796480
A song for our times
All times, actually.
Let’s talk
And she is amazing!
I’m grateful for my workplace and @lisakinsella & @kinsellawarren for being nothing but supportive through the challenges I’ve faced with my mental health since starting at @DaisyGrp. #BellLetsTalk https://t.co/QC6wkCGXiL
— Heather Barlow (@heather_barlow_) January 31, 2018
Spare a thought for Melania Trump (and all political spouses)
Married to a serial philanderer, a rank misogynist and an admitted sexual assaulter. It can’t be easy.
Is she aware? Of course she’s aware. There’s plenty of evidence, right there in plain view.
She refuses to travel with him to his (medicated) State of the Uniom, and takes her own car. She is in seclusion after a story breaks about her husband’s tryst with a porn star, and the hush money paid to said porn star. She refuses to travel with her husband to important international meetings. She condemns online bullies, knowing full well – as does the world – that her husband is the biggest online bully in the history of the world. She swats away his hand in public. She declines to celebrate the fact that she is married to Donald Trump.
She wept, we are told, when he won – because (we suspect) she knew (a) it would only encourage him to continue to act like a pig (and it has) and (b) it would mean that she would have to continue to be with him (and she has).
At the start, I didn’t think she was serious First Lady. Now, I think that she truly deserves our sympathy – for all that she has to endure in public, day after interminable day. It must be excruciating.
So, say a prayer for Melania Trump, then, and all political spouses like her. It can’t be easy to be married to a politician like that.
Tim Harper perfectly quotes Michelle Rempel
…who perfectly describes Ottawa.
This thing is just getting started. Some are now frantically trying to get ahead of it, and some are trying to pretend it’ll all blow over.
It ain’t going to blow over. And it’s pretty hard to get ahead of a tsunami.
(Oh, and this: documents can be disappeared. The people who prepared them, not so much.)
