Author: avgreene_4dzso6

We meet again. Here\’s your weekly reminder that it\’s time to get very loud about intellectual freedom and freedom of expression if you aren\’t already. If you don\’t live in a red state, I know it might be easy to write us all off (\”parent versus nonparent\” and \”liberal blue staters make sweeping generalizations about the American South\”…

Hi friends, Here\’s a really fun nature story that I got a kick out of last week. My favorite detail is that he hung on to the megabug for a decade before figuring out it was actually a monumental discovery. Incidentally, the megabug\’s littler cousin, the green lacewing, is a really lovely insect I only very recently…

Hello friends, It\’s not been a great week for American educators and librarians (and I highly recommend following Kelly Jensen\’s work at Book Riot if you care about this stuff at all). I can\’t stress enough that at this point it\’s not the occasional foaming-at-the-mouth homophobe showing up at a school board meeting or even obnoxiously…

Friends, I was dealt a savage, savage emotional blow this week when I learned that one of the preeminent cultural institutions of my childhood will soon be no more. I speak, of course, of the only fifty-year-old indoor roller coaster in the world to feature scenes from a possibly apocryphal vigilante gang attack on the guano mining town of Marmaros Missouri…

Happy Friday, internet friends. I hope you all have something good happening this weekend, even (especially) if it\’s only a few uninterrupted hours to curl up under a blanket with a book and a hot beverage, which is just all I want in life at this point. It feels like whatever structure in my pituitary gland that…

Since my last email, we\’ve endured a round of winter weather that very thoroughly knocked my household off course with a full week of kindergarten AMI (alternate methods of instruction, i.e. remote learning, if that particular face of hell isn\’t a part of your life). For inclement weather purposes, I might as well be employed…

Hello darlings, I’d like to give myself full commit-to-the-bit credit for my pseudonym act, since I literally drove out of town early one morning before work to a rural post office, where I registered for a legally required physical mailing address for this very email newsletter. Feel free to send me postcards! I’m getting a…

New Year, Grudgingly New Me. So, here I am, writing under my new Batman pen name. It’s fine, I guess. On the plus side, I can freely curse on the internet and I don’t have to worry about my bosses finding out I’ve written stories involving werewolf bestiality anymore. On the other hand, I started…