DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WHEN YOU CAN:  Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good:  Argue for the Achievable.

AND ANOTHER BOOK IN THE ROLLING CHRISTMAS SALE:  FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Deep Pink.

Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he’d actually have to go. But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there’s something foul in the realm of music. When the something grows to include the woman he fell in love with in kindergarten and a missing six-year-old girl, Leb climbs into his battered Suburban and like a knight of old goes forth to do battles with the legions of Hell. This is when things become insane…. Or perhaps in the interest of truth we should say more insane.

 

ON THE ROLLING CHRISTMAS SALE: FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Here Be Dragons: A collection of short stories

A collection of short stories by Award-Winning Author Sarah A. Hoyt. From dark worlds ruled by vampires to magical high schools, from future worlds where superhumans face all-too-human struggles—this collection showcases Hoyt’s signature blend of high-concept adventure and deeply human drama. Her characters face impossible odds in worlds both strange and familiar, yet they never surrender. With vivid storytelling that has earned her recognition in Analog, Asimov’s, and Weird Tales, Hoyt delivers fiction that is as emotionally resonant as it is imaginative. Angel in Flight is set in Sarah Hoyt’s popular Darkship series.

The collection contains the stories: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, First Blood, Created He Them, A Grain Of Salt, Shepherds and Wolves, Blood Ransom, The Price Of Gold, Around the Bend, An Answer From The North, Heart’s Fire, Whom The Gods Love, Angel In Flight, Dragons—as well as an introduction by fantasy writer Cedar Sanderson.

DON’T MESS WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OR GOD’LL GET YOU FOR THAT. First it was “from the river to the sea.” Now Gaza is the river to the sea. Cry harder, Jackon!

Or, possibly, it’s a lie. Well, most things from Gaza — by which I mean pretty much all things from Gaza — are. Meanwhile — to drive the lesson home — Jehovah has subjected Tehran to a literally killing drought.

OPEN THREAD: Destination Unknown.

Background here. And here.

UPDATE: Well, hell. This was supposed to be sked for tomorrow night. But I have two up and they both have comments so . . . Open Thread in stereo or something, I guess.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

BRITAIN IS IN A CLOSE CONTEST WITH GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA AS TO WHO HAS THE DUMBEST GOVERNING CLASS RIGHT NOW:

France, as usual, is losing — but not by much.

UPDATE: