Watching

My poem marking last year's anniversary of 1984 is up on my Patreon for paid and unpaid subscribers. 

A Moment of Comics

It's Thanksgiving this week. For no particular reason, here's a page from the adaption  of George Orwell's 1984 by Fido Nesti where Winston meets up with his simple coworker in prison to find out the coworker's daughter turned him in. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Worth a look. Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Seventy Fifth Anniversary, 1984

"Tell me," he said, "how soon will they review my performance as Needs Improvement?" 

"It might be a long time,’ said O’Brien. "You are a difficult case. But don’t give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall review your performance as Needs Improvement."

 I originally wrote my "satire" of this passage as "Will they send me an angry email?" almost a decade ago. Goes to show me that dystopian futures are tough to write in the moment.

Happy seventy-fifth anniversary Book Most Likely to be skimmed by MAGA heads.

The Jump! Mobile

My late grandmother loved her mighty white Lincoln. It was fitting that it led the way to her burial plot yesterday. She had it for years with my grandfather and drove it for as long as she could after he passed away until macular degeneration took her from behind the wheel. I've seen and have ridden in this car for years. It wasn't until yesterday that I looked at the license plate.

Was it my grandmother or my grandfather who were Van Halen fans? I'll never know.

The fate of the car is up in the air. It could be sold off. It could be taken by one of the four daughters. All I want now is to drive it next summer to the nearest outside fish n' chip place while the old radio blares "Panama."