Novelist/musician/lawyer/academic! He/him. ๐จ๐ฆ Enemy of fascism. For positivity, follow my *peacetime* public social media account @lukemaynard.bsky.social.
Ontario, Canada
Joined July 2009
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Somebody, please check on Sir Ian McKellen for me.
We have such a sense of kinship to one another when we lose someone we love, even forty years and a world away, even through a lens or from the cheap seats.
It hurts enough.
But to be there, to have loved and *been* loved...
I see #TrumpIsARussianAsset is trending as a hashtag.
I'm generally inclined to believe there ARE some shady connections & influence coming out of the Kremlin, but I feel maybe "asset" is starting to look like an ironic euphemism for "liability." Putin was late learning this.
I hope you're happy, @nathandueck & @NatalieMLim. I'm taking a gamble on selling, y'know, ONE novel at this year's @CanConSF so I have room to take home both your irresistible (for VERY different reasons) poetry books from #WolsakAndWynn.
Yes: People still buy and read #poetry.
The thousand-year stare of a years-long Epstein victim, kept for his use in Europe, sold as a mail-order bride once she hit adulthood & he lost interest.
A damaged child living inside a broken doll of her own making, who learned the only way to survive such evil was to become it.
You know what? It would be short-sighted of me to say no.
There are so, so many Americans who desperately need this money spent in other ways.
50 years from now, people will remember what happened to them when they didn't get it.
This will help future generations remember WHY.
(#Shelley's "Ozymandias" is far better-known in British #Romanticism, and maybe better-crafted; but I feel Horace Smith doesn't get enough love. He's also more heavy-handed about the idea that our past might be our future; and lay readers need a heavier hand these days.)
It's a good thing the people at @DiMarzioInc build virtually indestructible components, because @UPS sure tries their hardest!
Thank goodness for priority shipping: a 2-day service window means they only have time to back the truck over it a few hundred times at most. ๐
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Listening to @DragonForce again, I'm trying to gauge the ages of @HermanLi and @samdforce to the release of the #MegaMan NES games, and revisiting the game scores composed (and SEQUENCED to sound like metal guitars) by @chanchacolin, @soundfujita and others.
I was not muchโฆ
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โฆevery right to take their money elsewhere if they're dissatisfied with the results. But tentpole movies that drive multiple streams of IP monetization are about more than butts in theater seats. The fact that Star Wars still does decent box office is virtually immaterial.
Social media is frothing toxic incel rage right now at the #MastersofTheUniverse movieโconsumers who are weirdly tearful over trillion-dollar Amazon's box office numbers are copypasting the words "bomb" & "flop" in total ignorance of the revenue streams driving its true profits.
Is anyone on @beanfieldcanada's 1Gbps in TO seeing awful real-world speed?
I should troubleshoot before whining to tech support, but 99% sure it's because they put the fibre for my whole building thru the single worst wall, trapping the router in a signal-killing kitchen corner.
I just hot rodded a secondhand #Ibanez #GioMikro with @SeymourDuncan Sixties PJ Pickups. It plays & sounds great!
Took a couple tries though: my first attempt at soldering my own custom wiring was so clumsy, noisy & subpar that #Fender sent me a cease & desist๐๐ถ
Hey there #MusicSky,
If you're #FolkMusic fans and enjoy a good #fiddle tune, I offer the following.
I had more to say, but can't order my thoughts. #acoustic #guitar I'll tag #irishmusic too, even though #StAnnesReel is thoroughly #CanadianMusic.๐
youtu.be/PGy9m80hD1E
I think starting this month (i.e. today), I'll #PayItForward anytime someone buys my album on #BandcampFriday, Any extra amount I keep, I'll spend on other #indiemusic on @BandCamp & tell you next month what I got.
You're now supporting more than just me:
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Canada's reputation for fairness extends to the rink, I see.
Keeping Crosby off the ice gave the US a more fair, even chance at success, and they took it.
So what if that gold medal has a big asterisk on it? A loss without Crosby still stings, like losing a left-handed duel.
There are two Twitters now,
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one populated entirely by trolls with disposable burner accounts and stolen art for their pfp; and
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One populated by humans who stand behind their words with real faces & names.
I think they have, and SHOULD have, nothing to say to each other.
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โฆat that time to imagine a Five Families drug operation taken out by one guy who broke into their warehouse unseen, knocked out all the lights, and beat up ten guys in the dark, after being shot in the chest four times and leaving no trace of blood.
I love a super-scienceโฆ
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โฆCaped Crusader, and if you're going to give him space next to invincible space aliens fighting offworld wars, he's got to be a fantasy superbeing. But I'd love to read, and maybe write, a 1940s #Batman that revisits just how plausible the guy was as a product of his time.