Blaugust #25: Blogging in a Time of Corona

I thought I was so incredibly original when I started using the tag #loveinatimeofcorona on all my Instagram posts back at the beginning of the pandemic. Now I see it everywhere. And I saw it everywhere on Instagram, too. But now it’s everywhere. The header image was captured from a video by Dr. Panda called … Read more

Blaugust #24: It’s All About the Eyeballs

“Content creation” — it’s one of those words like “influencer” or “social media” that seem vague but have come to have very specific definitions in modern times. Content creation, as I understand it, is stuff generated to be ranked highly in search engines in order to entice people to follow it to your website, at … Read more

Blaugust #22 and #23: Fear and Envy

I at first didn’t want to write anything about fear, the topic of the first Blaugust Promptapalooza prompt. I’d much rather talk about the second one, which was easy, and all prepared. But, I came into this Blaugust thing determined to write a post for each writing prompt. Just because something is hard doesn’t mean … Read more

Blaugust #21: There Are No New Ideas

My son hates old movies, old songs, old anything. If it’s over ten years old, he’ll refuse to have anything to do with it — with certain exceptions. I try to sneak things in, sometimes, but then he’ll catch on. “That’s Led Zeppelin. Not interested.” It’s Millennial nostalgia, really. If it happened before the nineties, … Read more

Blaugust #20: It’s Good to be Bad

It is known that the best bad guys are mirror reflections of the good guys. Batman and the Joker. Superman and Darkseid. Wonder Woman and Cheetah. Captain Marvel* and Black Adam. I imagine the same holds true with the Marvel heroes, but I’m not very familiar with them. They should make some movies, get some … Read more