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Muggy in the Buggy
As is all too typical for 🎖️ summer 👷🏻 in my neck of the woods, we’re faced with classic Pennsylvania humidity and ambient ickiness…
🥤 Breathing Water 💦
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave. ~Gregory David Roberts
Okay, I won’t oversell it.
Pennsylvania humidity doesn’t hold a candle to Jamestown humidity.
I can say from personal experience that Jamestown humidity was literally like walking around a steamed-up bathroom with your clothes on.
I can’t even imagine what Gulf humidity must be like, so blessings and well-wishes to my friends and colleagues in the steamy South for being acclimated to conditions that would basically kill me.
Give me a nice crispy 🍂Autumn🍂 day, 24×365¼.
Apart from the sauna-like conditions, it’s a fairly innocuous weekend and I’m looking forward to getting more writing done.
🌡️ Definitely Not A Dry Heat 🥵
Relative Humidity Isn’t What You Think It Is
My home state is blessed with a wealth of lakes, ponds, creeks and rivers.
The only downside to this is that in 🌞 summertime 🔥 it not only gets hot as heck, but the heat is miserably humid.
You just feel like you’ve been slapped with a hot soggy towel and are obliged to wear it around all day.
Fortunately, we have air conditioning available to alleviate the problem, but still…
Northeast Pennsylvania’s Humid Summer: What You Need to Know
Okay, I realize he’s trying to make it more dramatic, but Pennsylvania 🌞 Summers 🔥 are ALWAYS like this.
This is not exceptional or unusual and it sure as 👿👿👿👿 isn’t anthropogenic climate change.
Jeez, don’t be a retard, willya?
🦹🏼 Enemies 📚
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. ~Paul Valery
All very true, particularly that last bit.
Good art is designed to express and possibly inspire a feeling of some kind.
Some artists aspire to challenge their audience, while others wish to engage with the audience.
There’s a difference.
You can be abrasive, but you have to be willing to own that.
Everything is a choice.
Do you invoke comfort? That’s perfectly acceptable. Cozy mysteries and romances are a big draw.
People have enough static in their lives, so engaging with art that wants to smash you in the face with a pane of glass is a turn-off for most.
Some people like that.
They want the tough meat. They want to wrestle with the work to try to see what the artist might have to say to them.
I always hated “modern art”.
I prefer representational art, so deliberately producing an ugly image is counterindicative for me.
After hearing an explanation of Picasso’s Guernica, I understand that it is an emotional depiction of the horror of battle.
I get it, but I don’t have to like it.
And people don’t have to like my work, either.
I’m sure there’s stuff in there that will profoundly offend people.
It’s not my intention to offend. I’m leaning into verisimilitude, so bad guys do bad things and good guys try to do good things.
Sometimes the attempt to do good things for good reasons goes off the rails.
That’s life, IMHO. Nothing is perfect. Good intentions are great, but 💩 happens.
Some people will be offended by that, and there’s nothing I can do about that and still write my stories my way.
Maybe that’s a hot take, but that’s summertime in Pennsylvania for you.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for 🌾🌽🌾…