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Author. Tech writer. Likes: Lego, TTRPGs, WH40K, Magic: the Gathering, Comics, SF/F. My preferred name is Unkle. Converse is my family name. I am not the shoe company. Banner image ©️2011 by me. All rights reserved. Profile image by @valentinebarker.com

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Converse @lousywords.com · Jan 14

I verified my account to use my domain.

I was "anothershoe", but now I am @lousywords.com

Converse @lousywords.com · 6h

I used to have a contract to print a tshirt for "Top 10 Reasons Beer is Better than Jesus." (Hi Wolfy, if you're out there! LTNS!)

"6. When you have beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away."

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 8h

HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES!

The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!

THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES launch
cover depicts three ravens with red text
author premee mohamed in conversation with kate heartfield
perfect books: 258A elgin street, ottawa, on
7 pm - 8:30 pm
october 20

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Converse @lousywords.com · 6h

He's an A++ muskox, and I'd be honored to hang out and feed him snacks.

Converse @lousywords.com · 6h

Hudson Ox and the Case of the Missing Pumpkin.

Hudson Ox likes his martinis dry with two olives and a cocktail onion.

Hudson Ox is here and will charm your girl.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 6h

"Madame, where do you go with all that water, yes?"

Converse @lousywords.com · 7h

The apples are gathering, Chuck.
By the bushel and barrel
Through frost and fallen leaves
They are coming.
They are coming.

Converse @lousywords.com · 7h

*solidarity fistbump*

You got this 'Zilla.

Converse @lousywords.com · 22h

I am “needs a nap so I have the energy to nap, then a nap to recover after my nap” old.

Please send naps.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 22h

Just bought roughly 150 full-size candy items to give out at Halloween.

I’ll be surprised if I have 150 trick-or-treaters *this* year, but we’ll see.

Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

Damnit.

Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

I'll just reuse this post.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 19d

“Say, datz a nize hat.”

Said with envy and respect.

Comics panel from “Girl Genius” where two monstrous humanoids shout “Hey — NIZE HAT!” to a man in a hat so over the top it has a fire pit on it.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

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Children of the Night

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Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

Oh no.

Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

Rockin’ the girls. A winning strategy.

Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

I have employed exactly that strategy for multiple moves.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 1d

It’s a key feature of the jetpacks we were also promised.

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

“Bring me a snack and my woobie.”

“This hound my kind of scum.”

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

This is the way.

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

These are images of the insulated shelter.

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

This is Outdoor Black Cat, or “OBC” for short.

A black cat sits on a brightly lit patio, staring into the screen and sliding glass doors.

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

Still I worry about them, and they have been spending a lot of time in my back yard (garden for you Brits), so …

I got a heated, insulated shelter for them, and a gravity-fed feeding bowl and another gravity-fed watering bowl. I spent the morning assembling and setting up.

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

More on the “Outdoor Black Cat” that has been coming to my home pretty often.

I am still not certain they are a stray. They came by the other day, and when I opened a door to put out food, they sauntered into the house, entirely unafraid, inspected everything, then sauntered back out.

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Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

And you don’t even recover any hit points!

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

Have you read Bruce Campbell’s autobiography, “If Chins Could Kill”?

Converse @lousywords.com · 2d

Those are less “stairs” and more “murder weapon.”