Pay up, Fatso!

From the NY Times:

"The judge in Alex Jones’s bankruptcy case ruled on Thursday that he will not be allowed to use his Chapter 11 filing to evade paying more than $1 billion in verdicts to families of the Sandy Hook shooting."

Find all of his hidden assets, turn him upside down and shake *all* the ill gotten gains out of him.

"The ruling by Judge Christopher Lopez in a Houston bankruptcy court means that Mr. Jones, the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster, will likely be working the rest of his life to pay his debt to the families."

I'm not so sure about that. Alex Jones's only job for the past *mumblety mumble* years has been to spread lies and distortions. I'd rather see him mopping floors for minimum wage somewhere. Under the eye of an Internet enabled camera. So everyone can watch.

-m

NaNoWriMo this year?

It's been quite awhile since I attempted a National Novel Writing Month marathon. I've done a bunch of them but the last one I didn't finish and I basically crashed and burned.

However, I have 3 candidates for this year - all three of which have been stewing in the back of my mind for a while:

"Alien Allen" (novel) - A young man wakes from a near death experience believing he's an alien soul being punished for some now mind wiped crime against the Galactic Empire. Now trapped in a human body, he has to navigate this strange world by relying on the memories still embedded in this body. But some of those memories seem to be missing or corrupted.

"I Need Not Go To The Edge" - (possible modern fantasy) Bullied and harassed teenager has something *bad* happen to him. Soon afterwards, those harassing him start to have *bad* things happen to them.

"Demon Blood" - (sword and sorcery) Life sucks for a young minor telepath and Truthseeker: she can read people's thoughts, knows when you're lying but the magic forces her to speak only the truth. Things don't get much better when she's paired with a demonologist: he summons the demons using her blood to open the Gate, then she interrogates the demons at the demonologist command. When a summoning goes haywire she nearly bleeds out - being saved by an infusion of succubus blood. She survives but now has strange and demanding appetites.

I started the last one as a non-Nano years ago but got stuck very quickly when the setting kept changing. The characters were fine but when the *geography* keeps shifting it's time to put it in the drawer for a while. It has the potential for being a trilogy although the third part is a bit shaky.

Thoughts?