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I just quit reading a cozy mystery mid-way. The heroine apparently solves crime by stomping through crime scenes like a mentally challenged baboon in wellington boots. She called her boyfriend instead of the police (who were ACTUALLY IN SIGHT!) when she found a floating corpse. Can't care whodunnit.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 4h

People accused my politically/community-action-involved first wife of "making up" the husband she claimed to have, for the obvious reason that I rarely went to political/community-action events.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 4h

Walt born in 1913. Bierce disappears in 1914. Coincidence?

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 10h

Looks like a stink bug. They can swarm en masse and are basically tiny skunks of the insect world. Startling or crushing them releases a nasty aroma. In Maryland, people sometimes collect swarms with a small shop-vac part-filled with water and Dawn to drown them. Discard downwind.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 22h

I just looked at the cast list for that one, and hadn't realized it included The Rocketeer.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 22h

Happy Last Day Of The Fiscal Year to all who celebrate!! May your trial sheets balance and your papers file on the first try!

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 22h

...which harkens to a gag in the Data Tries Stand Up Comedy episode--the bit about the funniest comedian in all of history specializing in quantum physics jokes.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 30/09/2026

I always loved the model setwork in the old B&W kaiju movies. At least I think they were B&W. We didn't have color TV when I was a kid.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 30/09/2026

I see what you did there...

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 29/09/2026

That sounds like an idea for a song, like a commercial jingle. "Don't be an asshole On my behalf. Don't try to sacrifice That "golden" calf. ...."

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 29/09/2026

Beware the Fanalanche, my child! The jaws that flap, The claws the scratch!

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 29/09/2026

Reading @alyssamatesic.bsky.social and Patrick "QueryTracker" McDonald's THE MODERN GUIDE TO QUERYING LITERARY AGENTS... It says a lot of things that I learned on my own, but it ALSO has stuff I never heard, so it was DEFINITELY WORTH BUYING. If you're new to querying, definitely read this book.

A copy of Alyssa Matesic and Patrick McDonald's "Modern Guide to Querying Literary Agents" lying on a red-lined short story manuscript.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 29/09/2026

Could be something in cricket, something that's neither low nor straight.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 29/09/2026

There's always The Bells Of St. Mary's...

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

Google Messages means politicians can text me In BOLD fonts to ask for money. Hint: I react to BOLD texts the same way I react to Comic Sans.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

My BG story: Weird Al had a BG when I saw him in concert. He appeared mid-show, standing upstage with his back to the audience and wearing a jacket that said "Weird Al". I didn't understand until Al climbed down into the audience. The BG followed him closely, preventing shenanigans.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

Interesting contrast to the Lamar pic. It's a photo op. We're supposed* to notice Momoa. "Aquaman's a' comin', Ma!" The suits draw the eye, but also set a perimeter. "Enjoy the view, but this is not an ask-for-hugs-and-autographs event."

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

(This is specific to the first pic - Kendrick Lamar's bodyguard.)

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

"Mongo only pawn in game of life." I wondered why he wasn't dressed in the usual MIB suit, then I realized that suits are paparazzi catnip. By wearing street clothes, the eyes of bystanders are drawn to the man's size, not his role. They may not even notice the celebrity trailing in his wake.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

You win the internet for the week! Here is your gilded no-prize!

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 28/09/2026

Maybe they're confusing it with an infusion of laureline.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 27/09/2026

Early Middle Age. Soon your favorite band from your youth will embark on a We Ran Out Of Money Reunion Tour.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine the eggs they lay! :-)

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 27/09/2026

My wife found this on You Tube last night. It made me giggle.

The kid from The Sixth Sense "seeing" Mitch McConnell.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 26/09/2026

"Don't smoke a brisket at a job interview" sounds like a chorus from a novelty country song. Put it on the B-side of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 26/09/2026

He had early-onset Alzheimers, diagnosed just before we went to Australia in 1993.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 26/09/2026

My dad was born 94 years ago today. Sadly, he died in 2000.

A young Episcopal priest standing in the grass.

A young Episcopal priest preaching a sermon from a pulpit. Location: Dayton OH circa 1957

A young Episcopal priest in a cassock sitting on a float in a Christmas parade, playing a small upright piano and leading a seated choir singing carols. Location: Easley SC circa 1962.

An older Episcopal priest dressed in 18th century military garb at a re-enactment of the Battle of Brattonsville (aka Huck's Defeat) during the American Bicentennial year of 1976.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 26/09/2026

And I was not disappointed. Thank you for sharing all that!

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 26/09/2026

Like the cat who ate Camembert and lurked outside the mousehole, I await the rest of this tale with bated breath.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 25/09/2026

It looks like Wile. E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner's slower cousin.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

Okay. The phone sync problem has been fixed by the simple (HA!) expedient of burning it to the ground (i.e. a full factory reset) and reloading.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

YouTube is throwing Lego ads at us now, probably because of the approaching Holiday Season. I have thoughts. YOU WANT TO SELL ME A SMART BRICK??? SELL ME A BRICK I CAN'T STEP ON IN THE DARK!!! HAVE IT CRAWL OUT OF THE WAY! MAKE IT LIGHT UP! Think of the feet.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

Let's try this again without screwing up. Hey @tkingfisher.com, guess who mentioned you in her latest vid as a well-known horror author. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxU0...

youtube.com

Everyone Loves This Genre. But No One Is Writing It.

YouTube video by Alyssa Matesic

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

<Picard_voice>"Coyote, his skates rolling."</Picard_voice>

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

On the other hand, you could invest that same $10K in an exchange-traded fund (ETF). Depending on the fund, you can expect it to pay you about $4000-$5000 over five years. That strikes me as a much better use of money. (I own several ETFs, but advertising them here would be bad form.)

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

And TSLA doesn't even pay dividends, so the only reason to buy it is to hope you can sell it for more later. With $10K, you could buy 26 shares and hope they go up, but at the same time the company would only earn about $140 in the next five years.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

That's only a hypothesis. A possibility. Far be it from me to suggest that a corrupt individual with plenty of adoring fans would engage in such a deceptive practice.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

What's funny is that tens of millions of TSLA shares are traded every day, but despite the fairy farts, the price doesn't drop down to something reasonable. I suspect something artificial is being done to keep that price up, like shell corps trading shares back and forth at agreed-on rates.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

A share of TSLA today costs about $379, but the P/E ratio is about 352, which means you can expect that share of stock to earn about five bucks between now and 2031. That's a crap return on investment. The price is held up by fairy farts, fandom, and wishful thinking.

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

It happens lots of ways, not just stock. E.g., the Beanie Baby craze a while back, with people buying cheap little beanbags (about $1 to manufacture) for $20 because they thought they could sell them later for $50. "If we mortgage the house and spend it on beanie babies, we'll make a fortune."

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

We saw that again in the dot com crash. My colleagues spent the day checking their stocks and watching them go up and up and up, but the mechanism driving that rise wasn't increased value. It was morons buying overpriced stock and betting it would go even higher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_S...

en.wikipedia.org

South Sea Company - Wikipedia

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 23/09/2026

Argh... "...very *few* disappointments..."

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 22/09/2026

I all-cap the first appearance of a role (e.g., the SPYMASTER) and capitalize it thereafter (e.g., the Spymaster) to make it easier to spot the intro of each role/archetypal character. I figure this is easier on the synopsis reader than playing a game of "Wait, which one is Decius?"

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