The Foulest Things Cover + fringe science + surveillance
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Checking out the cover for my next book - What WHATTTTTTT!
Look how pretty it is!
It is is the same cover designer, Emily Mahon, who did THE HONEYBEE EMERALDS.
It’s ice, but there’s a mysterious person BENEATH THE ICE! What is happening?!
Also, get this, it’s the first of three books set in and around the fictional “Dominion Archives.” There will be finding aids, and secret letters and mysterious maps and stolen documents. There will also be MURDER!!
Will I make a few snide insider jokes about the archival profession? You KNOW it.
The book comes out September 27th and while I am not sure I’m going to be able to manage an in-person event for THE HONEYBEE EMERALDS, I want to have a big STOMPING party for this one. Stay tuned!
Origins of the fringe
This is interesting, how fringe theories develop, attract people and “stack” up with each other, so your questioning of vaccines, leads you to wonder about government coverups, which leads you to believe that JFK Jr is still alive.
Fundamentally, we need to recognise that fringe theories aren’t just theories. Like science, the fringes come with complex, interconnected social substructures.
The possibilities of surveillance
I used Apple air tags, Tile and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move.
This is a really scary article on the ability of people to track us without our knowledge. I will say, though, that I probably use Tile once a day to find my effing phone…
Instead, I turned to the location-monitoring devices that I had secretly stashed in our car a week earlier.
I put a quarter-sized Apple AirTag in a seat pocket; a flat, credit card-shaped Bluetooth tracker made by Tile in a dashboard pocket; and a hockey-puck-like GPS tracker from a company called LandAirSea in the glove compartment.
I realize I sound like the worst wife ever, so let me explain. It was for journalism.
Rude Convoy Content
There’s only one good thing that came out of the convoy and it’s this
Hopefully this GD Convoy is cleared up now and the nearly-month long harassment of the people of Ottawa has ended. The cathartic joy that I experienced watching this man on his balcony, in the thick of the protestors, was profound. Also, the Maori woman talking about the Wellington protests is even ruder. Warning, this one is filled with lots of (satisfying) swears.
Well, I thought I would stay off Twitter, but then I kept sneaking back on, so here are a few good tweets I spotted:
TikTok
I have been informed that many of my Tik Toks haven’t been linking to the right videos. Deepest apologies for the mix up… I have fired the offending employee and am instigating rigorous quality checking here at Méli-Mélo HQ to ensure that henceforth your tiks tok to the right video.
Not adjusted to shoes
More swearing
This is essentially how I go through life
Gerard Butler!
I have never heard of Brambly Hedge, but am no obsessed
This made me tear up
Titanic with a cat
Undermining toxic masculinity with a banana
Ram and Bull
It’s too much
Tough kid
The chest hair
She’s at a place in her life…
More farm animals!
These are going on the fridge!
Interesting (and depressing and shocking)
“Can you show me that dance you were doing?
Flip-flop
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Amy Tector, The Honeybee Emeralds (March 2022)
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