9 This just in: I’ll be doing a fiction reading, with fiction writer and SF academic John Langan, at the Melville Gallery of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport on Tuesday, January 2, as part of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.
The doors open at 6:30 p.m., and complete details can be found on the NYRSF page. The series is curated by Jim Freund, host of Hour of the Wolf, broadcast on WBAI radio.
Important piece by @PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/us-military-targeted-killings.html?smid=url-share
“Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/opinion/roxane-gay-uvalde-school-shooting.html?referringSource=articleShare
Multitudes of children went to school today feeling lucky that the end of the school year is in sight & they will only have to worry for a few days/weeks more about being butchered in their classrooms, martyrs to the misconstrued 2nd amendment.
“If you address the madness of gun violence in America, then you have to acknowledge the intellectual and moral shallowness of the gun rights position adopted by Williamson and others of his ilk.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/kevin-williamson-uvalde-school-shooting-guns-used.html
11y saw me crying and asked if it was about Uvalde.
“Yeah,” I said. “It’s really sad and I worry about y’all.”
“It’s okay, Dad,” he said to me, “we train for this.”
Fuck. I’m broken. He’s in sixth grade. A math nerd. A gamer. He’s not a goddamn Marine. He “trains” for *this?*
