Dear False Potato Mother,

Yesterday I installed a screen door on our porch. We'd been using a cardboard TV box to keep the cat from running out the door for approximately a year and I was sick of it. It always fell over and we'd have to chase her in the yard. So I got the crazy idea to buy a screen door and put it in the place that was there for a screen door. It looks janky as hell, because I had to use random scraps of wood to fill in some gaps, but you know what? It looks less janky than using a cardboard box did. I'm sitting on the porch right now with a cup of puh erh tea, listening to dub in the sun, very happy work is over for the day. I quit coffee because acid reflux and insomnia were a bit too much. Getting very into teas.

Since I'm on the dumb phone now for good, I needed a camera, so I bought a digital camera and learned two things--1) this camera is worse quality than my phone camera was and 2) I like taking photos with it more for some reason. Here are some I took!

We are getting very close to August 17th, when SARA or I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead drops from Inside the Castle! I'm hoping to have a preorder link sooner or later, I'll probably drop you a short email when that hits outside our usual monthly update. You can watch for it yourself by following Inside the Castle on the social media application of your choice. I believe their usual username is "Incastellated" but I bet a search will turn something up.

As of right now, I have no plans for readings coming up, but I have a lead for a post-book release reading in SF and am on the lookout for leads on readings in Oregon and WA, so HMU if you could be such a lead. I don't remember if I mentioned it already, but the Seattle reading went amazingly. Thank you to everyone who came out. I loved meeting y'all. Here's a new poem I wrote that I read there:

Signed Confession

I, Sara Lammergeier Wolfthing, known heresiarch

& unshowered wife of little renown,

maiden name unexpectedly daughtered out,

was out back of a Love’s, drinking 

muddy water on the lamb,

until my ablutions were cut short

via aimed roman candle–clearly intentional

with no apparent regard for stray sparks

that might catch the undergrowth–

so I hollered out shit like “ancestry 

dot com says I’m 10% ossifrage,” 

and “I have matching tattoos with the void” 

but they caught me and I knew it,

I’d been birthing illegal shit in a public john,

which I named Miralax Gatorade after her father. 

I accept all repercussions of this action,

& only ask that you wait til next week

to disappear my wife, because she’s most of the way

through death stranding 2, and I’d like

her to have the memory of finishing it,

wherever she ends up.

Here's a taste of my media consumption habits lately:

Reading:

• Realm of the Elderlings Series by Robin Hobb --Finished the Tawny Man trilogy, taking a break before diving into the Rain Wild Chronicles
• I Wander the Earth Hungry for Semen by Cat Ingrid Leeches -- If you like my writing you'll love Cat's writing! Go buy this immediately!!
• Welcome to Dorley Hall/Secrets of Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves -- Force femme drama series! It's like if someone made non-erotic fictionmania, taking the premise really seriously and doing a super good job of character development. It's like transqueer Pretty Little Liars? It's like if someone took "I could fix him" way way way too far.
• Girlfriends by Emily Zhou -- This book is so good, I've been slowly reading a story here and there just to savor it. I don't have any comparisons or anything? Very good trans short story literary fiction. Highly recommend.

Watching: 

• Babylon 5 --My wife and I finally finished this! I cried!!!
• Friendship (2025) --If you like Tim Robinson at all go watch this right now
• Farscape --Starting a new sci-fi series. I've seen it before but never finished it. Very excited.

Listening:

• Grateful Dead - everything
• Gong - discogaphy
• King Crimson - discography
• Black Country New Road - Forever Howlong --I'd heard this band before but they didn't really resonate with me until this album, as the old lead singer left and they have three new lead singers who are all women. Fans of Joanna Newsom and interesting lady folk/pop with proggy and/or theatrical tendencies should check this out.
• Fievel is Glauque --Think Stereolab but math rock/jazzy/complicated instead of kraut rock/repetitive/hypnotic.
• Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
• Angel'in Heavy Syrup - discography

Thanks again for tuning into Dear False Potato Mother, where we can all pretend we live in rural Washington and barely leave the house.

Love you forever,

Never Angeline North, a name of pear-sized renown