So I learned something horrible. In light of the QAnon crazies and worse on Facebook they've implemented new policies on the backend by stealth. Essentially it makes it nearly impossible to build any sort of grassroots campaign there. If you want somebody to like and share a post it will get mangled now. That's great for arresting the development of conspiracy theories. That's not so great for people like me that write independently and try to put stuff out there. It wouldn't matter if I used Amazon or a more freedom-loving outlet as quite a bit is going down the memory hole.

As we start heading into the autumn we'll be heading into a weird time of nothing actually new being on TV. Hollywood and Vancouver let alone Made In Georgia are still having production problems. I wasn't kidding several months ago when I told newsletter subscribers that the future of TV in the near term may well be animation. So far that is proving to be the most resilient genre when it comes to the continuing coronavirus crisis. We may see a revival of supermarionation too such as with Nebula-75.

As for books and the like? You wouldn't know it from social media but apparently I have written a novelette or two. The drumbeat of the election and the social discord it creates is just drowning out so much in the country today. Even when somebody tries to create a bit of escapism it gets a bit somebody when it becomes impossible to tell anybody it actually exists.