Tossing Grenades At Windmills

Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future.  Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam …

Bron is not the protagonist of this story.  As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the …

First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass.  Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+

I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023.

I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011.

Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive.  Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what …

Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future.  Franz does this but his problems only start then.  

A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal.

Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger.  He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for …

Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community.

Chester makes a final sacrifice to save Hler from the rampaging world powers bent on its destruction.

An earlier draft of Mr Missile and Molly (previously read as a standalone podcast episode) including commentary about why this earlier draft didnt …

The Gang of Four reunite under tense circumstances.  Chester finally gets the chance he has been looking for and unleashes one meme to rule them all.

You wanna LARP Wolverines against the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind? You wanna be Batman? Well there are some obstacles you should …

Practical Advice on preparing to be a passive resister to the coup.  Includes protesting, preparation for protesting, protecting books and movies from the regime, creating an underground railroad (and how not to get …

This podcast episode is practical advice for those who realize the coup attempt is inevitable and plan to flee the United States.  When do you go? What do you need to do get a visa? Where will you go? How much do you …

Practical advice and understanding for those who are considering hiding from the MAGA regime that will result if the inevitable coup attempt is …

Blaspheme for Blaspheme, Me Myself and Not I, No it Doesnt, My Lunatic Uncle, For Want of a Nail, Covenant at Gunpoint, Maybe

A new series discussing practical preparation for the coming coup.  The next four episodes involve practical advice for how to prepare based on your …

If I were You, Pay to Play, Reset the Police, My Octopus Lover, Precious Bodily Fluids, Deliberations, The Trial of a God, 

Hastur had a tough job to do, working for the Interdimensional Immigration Service determining whether witches, gnomes and enchanted teapots get into the USA (Unicorns get in automatically).  Then he is given an ominous …

Amberlove is rescued by a flood of tiny little cars that also take her on a (larger) car chase.

A mysterious human disrupts daily life in an alien marketplace to benefit all of humanity and the local Warden is determined to find out why.

The Muse is Dying, Silencing Dissenters, Avoid Tongs Discord Server, Zucker Suckers, Useful Idiots, One Big Happy Beiging Games, Lover's Kiss, The …

The Meme Wars start to get ridiculous as nations begin adding surgically altered Nacroleptics to their executive retinues to protect them from Hler's …

Maybe a Miracle, Burn the World, It Almost Happened Here, Ode to Twitter Support, Here Eyes Are Obsolete, Ghost Fighters in the Sky, Poor Hobo Joe, …

A worm is spared by a normal human but the worm turns and helps the human, albiet extremely reluctantly.

Poems: I have a dream, There is a difference, Good vs Evil, Meta Meta Meta, Hierarchy of Values, Knight of Dreams, War Crimes Soufle, Not Leadership

Chester returns to find out that he has a son, and a very very angry mother and populace as he becomes a celebrity and deals with the consequences …

Elery is chosen by the elves to learn magic among the poverty and squalor of Spielglass full of humans, but instead they treat her as a glorified …

Watson and Amberlove take down the Cult of Innocence by using their own paranoia against them.

In an alternate timeline the assassin of Lincoln runs into a four legged suprise he did not expect.

Sometimes Words Make Me Stupid, Sunbonnet Tiger, Failure to Comprehend, Double Standard, Tiny LIttle Toy, The Insecurity Council, Patriarch Kirill, Deworming Deplatforming

Chester is on the run and decides to turn the tables to try and investigate some information on the Col.

Not Ash, Two Red Wolves, Pointy Red Shoes, Joker's Punchline, Dumbo the CEO, Did You Read The Bill, Eary Edition, Maga Schizophrenia, The …

Two girls steal a Zamboni to save their house from the bank.  All according to prophesy.  Super super super twist ending.

Prophets and Sundry, Crumbling Marble, Cramps to Zuckerberg, The Most Dangerous Time of the Year, the Magic Mirror Gate, All Hail Lord Icecream, Poetic Worship IV - The Voyage Home

Watson returns to the United States only to find out being Duke of Hler has....complications.

Mirthy is the last of his caravan to survive and now he must make his way home in hundreds of miles of hostile supernatural forest.  He discovers a secret that is not meant to be found deep in the woods.

Watson runs into someone from Prison who REALLY REALLY wants to work for him.  There is an attack, and the consequences are deadly.

Vance has been cursed with undeath until he makes up for what he took from the World Tree.  He recruits Stick to help him infiltrate an impossible fortress and take out his final target.

Russia makes a move on Hler but Prow is able to see it; barely in time.   Prow and Chester have a more...permanent rupture.

Opsa lives on an isolated rural planet and her cousin Kili is sent to visit her to "build character."  After some friction the two get along but …

Nax just wants to survive the war with the Fatebinder, not be a hero.  But the Fatebinder is determined to stop the prophesy no matter what it takes and Nax might be in the way of that.  Someone is getting a big …

Watson and Prow are back on the case, and Prow finds something that attracts his attention.  On investigation, they discover that "Klingons" are not pleased at their activities and they almost cause an international …

Captain Cracen is desperately trying to find someone, anyone, inside the alien city of Sundial Chicago to help him get the shield down to help him win the war.  He finds the most UNLIKELY of allies.

Chester and Prow are pardoned and hired by the very conspiracy that Prow dedicate his life to uncovering.

In shocking news today the Supreme Court on Terra overturned Virginia vs West Virginia upsetting 150 years of Stare Decisis to Declare West Virginia and thus Senator Joe Manchin Illegal.

A man with a fantastical company that can search for anything the right client wants in an infinite number of worlds gets mired in a political …

Poems Include: Why is there no Rotten Tomatoes for News?, Social Media, Lazy Scammers, Germany Drops the Ball, The End of the Moral Majority, Lance of Shadows and It Happened.

Prow realizes that he needs Chester's help to solve the Muffin Conspiracy and is willing to go to insane lengths to get it.

The Last Colony on Mars has been out of contact with Earth for a 100 years and lives under strict Protocols...until a ship from Earth lands.

Darla, Amberlove and Prow investigate a series of strange muffin selling "children" using drones in Europe.

The Church of Theatrical Explosions, the last free movie theater in a conservative holier than thou USA has to defend themselves against a government …

Emmit Other Reads: Lazy Scammers, Social Media, Why is there no Rotten Tomatoes for News?, The Ritual, Hypothetically, Dark Overlord, Deactivated My Twitter Account, Cactus Barbie for 2024, President Charlie Brown, A …

Chester (Watson) is in prison and volunteered for a government experiment on memes that goes berserk.  Can he stop it?

Robot 1 and Robot 2 deliver more good news from Terra! On Earth....not so much.

A young woman from a medical ship must deliver a set of vaccines to a dying population on a poorly terraformed hell world light years from Earth all …

7 Poems - Vampire Hunters Hate New Years Eve, 2021 Can Die, 2022 Contract, The Stone Cutters, Happy Treasonversery, One Day More, You Must Speak the Forbidden Words

Watson sets up Prow to take a fall with a fake man from the future and a fake case.  It doesnt turn out how he thinks it does.

Donald Trump's stories about Windmill Cancer cause the podcast to give cancer on Terra so that fact is put to use.

A lost soul isolates himself on a beacon light years away from everyone for a thousand years for love; only to find things do not work out at all as …

Emmit's Corner Poems: Biden Gets a Puppet - A Very Special Episode, Finding Your Solstice Center, On a Mission From God, Live Every Day Scrooged, …

Watson, Darla and Quiessence go back to Alaska to figure out why soldiers on an army base and to acquire a dog.

My Oldest Story in my Writing Career (as compared to rando stuff before that) with appropriate commentary.  1000 words so short, Drat accidently wipes humanity and has to figure out how to get it back.

Team Incompetent for the Loss, Inertia of Self, Ode to the Sex Bot that Followed Me This Morning, Illegitimate Farce, Shadowbanned on Poetizer, …

Our three heroes take a case in a shiny high tech unicorn start up department store to investigate why all of their customers are suddenly acting like characters out of sitcoms.  The answer may surprise you!

Washington the 23rd is determined to renew the American Empire through one means or another; starting with the destruction of the City of Momuments.

Quiessence and his Watson get another case involving a mysteriously malfunctioning combat drone and are tasked with trying to figure out why it isnt …

Sir Paul McCartney goes to Russia to convince Putin to not attack Ukraine (on Terra) and needs...HELP.

A set of aliens want to say hello to Earth but our media of aliens scares the crap out of them.  So, in a near future dystopia they create a child to be raised by a caregiver posing as humans with amazing abilities that …

Quiessence Prow hires a snarky assistant to take him around the world with his bodyguard and girl Friday, Darla to solve mysteries.  The first …

Josie meets and dates Skip.  Skip meets the family.  They court each other and eventually become common law spouses.

I wrote this story back in 2006, and read it and then offering a writing critique; the Spirit of the 20th Century convinces a waiter to steal a priceless fake artifact to accelerate the demise of a corrupt society.

8 Poems by Emmit Other including Both Sider Freak, Modern Prophesy, Gut Punch, Crack Suicide Squad, Games Should be Fun, Defending ZZz, The …

8 Poems including Tulipmania, Petty Karma, Arsonist by Voyeurism, Climate Rape, A Little Every Day, Debate with a Spagetti Strainer, and the West …

8 Poems by Emmit Other including:

Conjunction

Is that really a good idea?

To My Beloved

Saving Christmas (Again)

This Too Shall Pass

Prince Polonium

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The podcast will focus more on my writing for a few months and in this podcast I talk about past, present and future plans.

In this Chapter we cover the 80's in Denver Colorado after the divorce but before she met her life Partner Skip.  The Bitening.  Crap Jobs.  Abuse …

In 1993 as an LDS missionary in Venezuela, I was in a 3 day coup attempt that was stopped.  I will leverage my personal experience as well as …

Finito.  Fin.  Done.  Many episodes later, I have finished what I started and exposed and analyzed the corrupt culture of Silicon Valley and how …

At the penultimate episode in this series we conclude with a few things; culture matters and its the root problem of the tech companies, and that …

Saigon 2 (Khandijar edition) isn't just about the tragic pending enslavement of millions of Afghani women to the truly despicable Taliban, its about …

So we saw all kinds of scary scary articles about Russia's new fighter called the Checkmate this week only it turns out its a paper shell that may never actually get MADE because Russia might not be able to afford to …

I just want to thank Twitter Support for sending me a personalized note about their concerns about any suicidal thoughts or self harm that I or anyone else might have and that they totally don't mock mental illness or …

Both these companies flagrantly lie about what an employee is and engaged in Phillip Morris level deception in a recent referendum in California on driver rights.  I also share two person experiences about the arrogance …

Separation, Divorce, ACT, Lockey Lawson's Funeral, Dark Days

In which I read (drunk) various versions of the Gettysberg Address

Who is @MaxNordau and why is @twittersupport unblocking them every single day when I try to block them?

Jack Dorsey is a luke warm CEO that arguably hates his job.  So why does he do it? I make the case that the reason he stays on track on Twitter is to increase the value of Bitcoin by using the social media company to …

Signing a EULA is not going to meet (I believe) APA guidelines to participating in a Psychological Experiment.  Facebook doesn't ask ANYBODY when it …

The worst of all facebook's crimes is Cambridge Analytica and the data it fed them and Palantir and the center of all of it and so many other data misuses of data is Peter Thiel.  This misuse leads to lax security and …

Facebook is worse than any other company in this series by four or five orders of magnitude.  Everything I talk about with evil for the other companies before or after applies to facebook.  Facebook does more harm to …

Chapter 29 in the autobiography of Josie Burgin Lawson.  The trip to Israel and Egypt made a huge turning point in her life where she seriously started to question the LDS church and also the circumstances of her …

In this chapter we discuss her time with the Wyoming Right to Life organization, the things that she learned about it, the ERA and the LDS church at the time including a number of inconsistencies and lies that started …

The primary argument against primarying Manchin is that no other democrat can win in West Virginia.  OK...but without the filibuster there is no HR1 and with no HR1, there is no winning for democrats in Red or even …

Everything people have complained about Walmart applies to Amazon on steroids.  They treat their workers like crap (white collar and blue collar), …

Google does a much better job than the other four "horsemen" of the tech world 'keeping its nose clean' (by standards not set by lying conservatives) but it still has some problems, the most prominent of which is its …

Just because Apple built something new and only controls HALF the mobile market place doesn't mean that it should also be able to take a cut of or …