Ticia Drake Isom

#poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter #POEMS If you're in the San Francisco, Bay Area, I'd love it if you could join me for my first ever reading and book signing. If you can't come, would you please consider retweeting this invitation? Thank you 💙

@Marjorie73 Yikes! I’m so sorry.

Bruise on my foot from my fall on Monday is developing an impressive colour palette..

@Marjorie73 (((Hugs)))

Buggaration. I went for a short walk this morning, to look at the harbour, turned my ankle (which happens at random intervals) and managed to fall very heavily 🤕 made a hole in my left knee, also my right elbow, current status - ouch.

@ShannonStamey I’d listen to that Spotify playlist!

@Richard_Kadrey Jason Statham could pull that off. He’s great in these films. He really leaned into Crank and has added nothing but goodness to every improbable movie he’s been in since then. And the chemistry between him and Helen Mirren in the Fast and the Furious franchise… glorious.

The Meg 3 should be an aquatic cosmic horror movie written by Thomas Ligotti. Replace the shark with an endless, uncaring void that devours everything and everyone, starting with Jason Statham. The End. Of Everything.

@Richard_Kadrey I can hardly wait!

I just saw a trailer for THE MEG 2. It looks even bigger and dumber than the first one. Oh god. They're going to make me see THE MEG 2.

@Richard_Kadrey Bowie starred in a BBC TV production of BAAL that’s only been available as an EP. The TV production is streaming here for 2 weeks: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

After all these years, LOW sounds as good as ever. My favorite Bowie album.

@Richard_Kadrey Yes!

@ticia42 I understand completely. It's a bit like losing your home.

I received my Pennsylvania driver's license today. I'm relieved to finally have a REAL ID, but it feels weird to give up my California license—my last official tie to the state.

@uusaint Sleeping Beauty dreams on—no Prince.

In six words or fewer, write a story about this picture. 👀🏡 #WritingCommunity #sixwordstory #amwriting #ChallengeAccepted #SundayFunday

@Marjorie73 Good to know. Thank you for the awesome, detailed response. I’ll see what I can find here.

@ticia42 The Man in the Queue is the first of her Inspector Grant mysteries, I also love Brat Farrar which is a standalone. (The Singing Sands is the one of of hers with a murder on a sleeper train to Scotland, buy its later in the series)

Just leaving Euston on the @CalSleeper - looking forward to a light supper and a glass of wine..

@ManMadeMoon I highly recommend. I took that trip every two weeks as a child. It was so much better than being stuck in a car for multiple hours.

The top of the Empire State Building was originally designed to be used as a docking station for airships. In the late 1920s, there was a belief that cross-Atlantic travel would soon be carried out using zeppelins or dirigibles. Therefore, the investors behind the Empire State Building saw the top of the building as an ideal site for embarkation. In this envisioned scenario, a dirigible would arrive and dock on top of the building at the specially constructed mooring station. The airship would be quickly secured with ropes, allowing passengers to disembark by walking single-file down a gangplank and into the tallest building in the world from its top floor. From there, they could take the elevator down and find themselves in the heart of Manhattan, a mere seven minutes after landing. Since the idea was driven by the practical desire to make the building more profitable, the developers went as far as actually constructing a mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building. However, even the most skilled American engineers failed to devise a method to attach a zeppelin to the top of a 1,250-foot-high building that regularly experienced 50 mph winds, while also ensuring a pleasant experience for the average cross-Atlantic traveler. The airship companies ultimately deemed the idea impractical and even dangerous, leading to a lack of interest. Despite this, the one and only actual mooring on the Empire State Building occurred in September 1931 when a privately-owned blimp managed to dock for three minutes, although no unloading took place. "Traffic was tied up in the streets below for more than a half hour as the pilot, Lieutenant William McCraken jockeyed for position in the half gale about the tower 1,200 feet above the ground," the Times reported in 1931. The age of trans-Atlantic zeppelins ended in 1937 with the Hindenburg disaster, when the largest craft of its type ever built burst into flames while landing in New Jersey.

@Richard_Kadrey Worst thing about moving cross country.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: San Francisco burritos are the only burritos.

@Marjorie73 ((Hugs)))

*sigh* not sure if I ate something that disagreed with me or have met a bug, but I feel like death warmed up right now.

@amylee_writer Ha! You just took the wind right out of my sails!

@ticia42 Who's on your lawn, babe? Do I need to kick someone's ass? Cuz you know I will.

Good morning, buttercups 💙Have a beautiful day. Thinking about compassion, trust, diligence, and kindness today. What are your words?

@BenHWinters I believe it’s less uncommon than you’d think, I experience it writing marketing reports and technical white papers for my day job and in my fiction writing.

@amylee_writer You are most welcome.

@ticia42 Ohhhhh! Thank you!

Now I've done it. I am not coming back until my author bio is finished. Why is this so painful? WHY?!