Friday, Oct 3, 2025

Moved

Well this has been an eventful week. We moved from our old apartment to a place in Metchosin, a town on the outskirts of Victoria. It's somewhat rural, but not too far away. I have a view of the ocean from my living room window. It's twice as big as our previous place, and I'm finding myself getting tired just walking around in it. We're very happy with it and I feel pretty grateful for how it's all worked out. Not a completely seamless move, but I'm not complaining. We made in one piece and that's what matters to me.

Danny: The Audiobook

The audiobook for Danny is now available for purchase. It's narrated by Raechel Jordan, who has narrated all of the Bloodletting books, and who did another fantastic job with this one. It's the last of my published vampire stories for now, and I'm already itching to start writing the next one. I just need to get settled and back into a routine.

It's available on Audible here: Audible

and Amazon here: Amazon

And if you're reading this and would like a free copy, reach out to me and I'll hook you up with a code to download the audiobook. Because honestly, I want people to hear it, and I'm happy to give out promotional codes.

The Life of a Showgirl (or the unmaking of a Swiftie)

Okay, so I've been a somewhat dedicated Swiftie since 1989 came out and blew my mind, and I've been all over the place with my fandom, oscillating from obsessive to dismissive depending on my mood and what she's doing.

I feel like things have been pretty stagnant since the end of the Eras tour, and that's fair. She's got a lot going on and she just finished the biggest music tour in history, so she deserves a break.

The thing that sucks, though, is that this album has been hyped so much, and there's been all of this chatter about easter eggs and surprises and potential other tracks and everything, but what we got was a pretty basic, kind of boring Taylor album. It seems that whatever she has to say now is pretty out of touch with reality and the world we live in. Maybe it's because things have been so bad lately, but honestly, I don't really give a shit anymore. I don't care about hearing about her fucking Travis. I don't care about her beefs with other singers. I don't care about her romanticising old Hollywood. Most of all, I don't care about her billionare life engaged a football player. She's no longer a person I can see myself in.

What happened to "she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers," Taylor? I'm kind of over the whole thing. Granted, I've heard the album twice, and there's a chance it'll grow on me. But the next thing is going to have to be pretty impressive for me to stay on board. She basically lost me this year. I just want her to say something meaningful that I can actually feel. I didn't get that this time.

Then she ends the album with this kind of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band style song, where she closes things down as though she's ending a concert with Sabrina Carpenter, and that album was not worthy of that kind of grand finale.

So there's that. I guess I need to find a new personality.

This week I'm going to see The Smashing Machine and One Battle After Another, even though I'm not particularly excited for either. Mainly because they both star actors that I don't really like. That said, I'm still gonna see em, because that's what I do.

Anyway, that's it for now. More later!