Dancing Around the Four Sides

It has been cold here, chiclets. Really cold. I didn't take Layla for her nightly walks two nights in a row because the wind chill the first night was 4 and the second night it was 10. We'll go tonight, though.

Watched a movie called Midnight Special and really liked it. I have been a fan of actor Michael Shannon since I saw him in Take Shelter, and he doesn't disappoint here.

( Cut for possible spoilers ...  )

So anyway. I know people are sick of politics (at least, I know I am), so I'm going to put the next thing under a cut too. It's something I did on the night of December 1st, which was the day I saw that Trump bumper sticker. Every word I'm about to write is true. I'm calling it -- ( Picking Up the Chalk, or, How I Became a Neighborhood Subversive for One Night ...  )

So. That turned out long.

In other news, here is an awesome short (very short) story for the season from one of the writers I follow on Twitter -- In the Late December, by Greg van Eekhout. I liked it a lot.

Also, it looks like Blackmare and I will have a Christmas Eve Housefic for everyone. A two-parter, with an epilogue to follow. Merry merry. :-)