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She’s not wrong. She’s just an asshole. And a criminal who deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1374112277637521408 …

Read the script in that link. Read it and tell me that anybody else could not just pull that story off BUT make it a huge SATISFYING emotional payoff for ELEVEN issues worth of stories. Comics is incredibly lucky to have him because if Hollywood caught on they’d kidnap him away.

I don’t think it gets said enough but Dan is far and away the best writer in mainstream comics. The amount of thought and empathy in his books — combined with a sense of fun that’s completely unrivaled. The few times I got to work near him was humbling to say the least.https://twitter.com/danslott/status/1374117377122697221 …

I’m favorite part of @HamiltonMusical is when Ham throws the power of Yard Signs as a substitute for representative government at Burr. @Lin_Manuel may consider expanding that section.https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1374033974700478470 …

When are they releasing THIS cut?https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/1373840932840206337 …

Tiny dog, big snore. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMra1sQBG6j/?igshid=jlr1slp18gpu …

No matter what the anyone tells you THIS IS REAL. Half a million people are dead and untold millions more don’t know what they’ll find as an after effect like I did. Please. Be decent. Be thoughtful. Be human. Get vaccinated.

But - because I’ve got Type 1-LADA diabetes, I’m immunocompromised. That means I’m statistically more likely to get reinfected, or to catch one of those strains. And every person waking around w/o a mask or refusing the vaccine is a literal threat to my life.

Now after all of this we came to the heart breaking part. This is the status quo for the foreseeable future. So, getting the the vaccine today is a reminder of what I lost in the past year. And how lucky I am that it was ultimately fairly minor.

Actual damaged tissue on the “outside” of my vocal folds. The part of the vocal cords that open and close to make sound. We tried steroids, we tried “voice rest,” and extensive voice therapy. And it just never went away.

My wife pointed out that I was pitchy. And not just pitchy but struggling to even get notes out. Over the following weeks it became increasingly apparent that there was something wrong with my throat. I wound up at an ENT with tubes stuck everywhere where they found... scars.

So, I solved it with some tech solutions, rearranged my desk etc. Throughout the last year or two I’ve been teaching myself to play piano. I am not a good pianist, but I can sing and just relax and enjoy myself for an hour and that’s irreplaceable.

I started a new job somewhere around then and I pretty much just ignored everything still lingering on. While working via zoom, I’d frequently get “you’re hard to hear” comments and I was more than a little baffled. The last thing anyone would say is that I’m hard to hear.

A few weeks later, I was over it. The asthma never went away. Nor did the sore throat. Covid hit, tests came out - it was maybe six weeks out or more from when I got better - so my test came up clean - and there weren’t antibody tests yet.