Clayton Barnett

SF writer with nineteen books - to date - of the future history of Machine Civilization. Semi-retired. Father of two wonderful, employed, debt-free daughters. Drunkard.

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2025-07-26 03:48:35 UTC

Or nothing, @graf
Nothing is probably best, considered.

2025-07-24 21:50:28 UTC

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And dinner for G. I don't need a pic of that.

2025-07-24 21:39:06 UTC

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/narrator voice/ The password is Fungible.

2025-07-24 21:33:17 UTC

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I gave you USD50 for flowers, bakaiyarol.

2025-07-24 21:10:02 UTC

And post a pic of the non-cut flowers, @graf

2025-07-24 15:13:39 UTC

When our host disappears for hours, I'm hoping it's a Certain Someone and not lawyers on the phone.

2025-07-23 21:26:01 UTC

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Full disclosure to the Poast koinonia: I came up with the name Graf before I joined Poast. I'm not remotely clever. I'm gifted these characters and stories.
We're here for y'all. Deus vult.

2025-07-23 19:30:16 UTC

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How are things? Can I help?

2025-07-22 16:52:00 UTC

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We all will want an invite to the wedding*.
*Pro tip: SERIOUSLY lose the "if anyone has any objections..." line.

2025-07-22 16:45:19 UTC

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Just so you know, Graf, I'm making an heroic effort to not say anything about you and Grippy's (Agrippina's) eggs. Nope. Not a word.

2025-07-22 03:33:14 UTC

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"Wronged wife." In the Gallic Wars last failed rebellion of her cousin, Vercingetorix, after Alesia, some Gallic partisans murdered her. Strangled her with her own hair.
Caesar always loved her voice. He never spoke of her again. They had a son. Lost to history.

2025-07-22 03:28:51 UTC

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Morbid curiosity: did you ever tell her what I told you; what her given name means?
Because there's a true but horrible tragic story of Caesar in Gaul and his beloved mistress, Rhiannon.

2025-07-22 01:46:57 UTC

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Nineteen more. One is a children's early reader once you breed her.
https://www.amazon.ca/Henges-Big-Day-Machine-Civilization/dp/1537710656/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=R18L5HV0SOKG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.h3dB8QFMjtYoNEU2x5Xy2vInwaSU7XOIuHch2DFeDsM.UtUXZXwq3931OolQvtHbNNcwNLRc6v_XMAYOl5vTFIE&dib_tag=se&keywords=henge%27s+big+day&qid=1753148766&sprefix=henge%27s+big+day%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1

2025-07-22 01:32:24 UTC

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https://www.amazon.ca/Irrational-Pai-Clayton-Barnett/dp/B0F6Y2G7CB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=235NZLD5MZG3I&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qBgj9tQZ4_Ma3VPrc94z0A.rd1qZpqqeKw2LbP69AuvQAl9L05XFyubHrFcpgyyL_U&dib_tag=se&keywords=irrational+pai&qid=1753147903&sprefix=irrational+pai%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1

2025-07-22 01:30:13 UTC

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Want me to gift her a copy of "Irrational Pai"? 190 pages of a protagonist named Graf. First book of four planned.
https://i.poastcdn.org/1e/0a/56/1e0a56fbab6b4cb677fcf0b2f80505f029944fd1592d13df3d4e0fd05401277a.jpg

2025-07-22 01:25:12 UTC

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I work in a hospital and don't even talk to the staff.

2025-07-16 22:20:35 UTC

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Wear wool socks in the winter?

2025-07-16 22:19:52 UTC

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I pay attention to every medical thing you write. I hope Trevor does, as well.

2025-07-16 22:18:40 UTC

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Aren't wood floors cold up there, in winter?

2025-07-15 20:11:45 UTC

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Shouldn't you start DMing some of this? Yes, I post with my real name but am a very private person. YMMV, as the cool kids say.

2025-07-15 17:15:11 UTC

Have to get ready to take one of our dogs for a checkup. I'm expecting @graf to beat Pai Mendro's record by the time I get back.
Cheers.

2025-07-15 16:50:17 UTC

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"There are no such things as coincidences." ~ absolutely every character in my 20 books.

2025-07-15 16:14:24 UTC

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So go get married today.

2025-07-15 16:09:25 UTC

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I'll be at a creative's con in Louisville, KY starting Thursday. Us Catholic Lemurs (the name of our writing group; don't ask) will be going to St. Martin of Tours on Sunday. I'll mention "Graf and Grippy." Fairly sure God will get the usernames.

2025-07-15 16:04:18 UTC

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She's not a newly hatched dragon.

2025-07-15 14:51:08 UTC

A history of short courtships, three drawing upon my works.
Faustina Hartmann: three days separated by seven months.
Aurelia Hartmann: 20 hours.
Pai Mendrovovitch: 17 hours.
@graf in the Emergency Waiting Room: "Come here often?"

2025-07-15 01:47:55 UTC

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Again, goes back to the original definition: "wronged wife."
A Rheannon (sp?) is Arvenean Gallic. One of Caesar's mistresses on his 10 year Gallic campaign, had that name. He loved her singing. She bore him a son.
She was murdered in Vercingectorix's uprising.

2025-07-15 01:34:24 UTC

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My wife abandoned my cute-sie name a score years ago. There was one that fell away and one which stuck.
Five? In 36 hours? Are you mad?

2025-07-15 01:20:10 UTC

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My Hungarian wife says, "Cheese tray."

2025-07-15 01:18:07 UTC

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And capitalize Grippy (Agrippina), unless you've a compelling reason not to. Writers take words seriously.

2025-07-15 01:16:25 UTC

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Char...stop it with the made up words.

2025-07-15 00:27:50 UTC

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I said 2-3 weeks. Wait. I don't flunk my commitments.

2025-07-14 16:19:36 UTC

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That's a rather broad, so to speak, brush. Northern, central, or southern? Much genetic variation.

2025-07-13 20:00:12 UTC

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I've one daughter about an hour away. The other is in Jordan. If they were hurt and someone stepped up to help, I'd have an almost feudal obligation of gratitude.
I'd never done what Graf did; I'm a heartless asshole. He's an example of why ultimately, we'll win.

2025-07-13 19:26:25 UTC

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I grew up in the western US. 3 hours was a beer run.

2025-07-13 15:22:58 UTC

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First date, I took my proto-girlfriend horseback riding then gave her a massage in her flat after. No, just a massage.

2025-07-13 15:00:53 UTC

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Never took my now-wife to a movie until we were a sure thing. You are essentially alone in a theater, not engaging with the other at all, just passively looking at a screen with your own thoughts.
Watching a movie at home is completely different. You can talk. You can pause it for food, drinks, bathroom breaks, and, more importantly, to discuss wtf was that scene just about?
"To like someone is to want to know more about them." ~Ai, Thinking Machine of tribe Tohsaka.

2025-07-13 11:45:58 UTC

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Pleased you are not dead.

2025-07-13 02:09:01 UTC

My family has been cosplaying for over 15 years. Tremendous source of family unity.
https://i.poastcdn.org/77/51/bb/7751bb4ca3607c7c7d1db6c6546550e5f89cda754fb9c9e969cdee5bd220c532.jpg
#note1e0r…c4ax

2025-07-13 01:14:31 UTC

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WTF guy has "body wash"? Soap has been around for 1000 years.

2025-07-12 21:17:59 UTC

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You can pour temporary happiness, Graf.

2025-07-12 21:02:17 UTC

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"Allow me to retort..."
https://i.poastcdn.org/67/d5/fe/67d5fe904e5a3af7912d7182187c6dfcf94e80b7a934a2108a0aa3967c643adf.jpg
https://i.poastcdn.org/8c/64/31/8c6431f0992a1d8502d3bd3613688a08030aab1600a37bf15e2f3eb109bdf106.jpg

2025-07-12 20:48:30 UTC

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Going out on a biomechanical limb here - and Trevor is more than welcome to put me in my place - but how the absolute eff can someone with that kind of wrist damage give a shoulder rub?
I recall the penultimate scene of "Constantine," when after slitting his wrists, John couldn't even use his lighter.

2025-07-12 20:38:30 UTC

Just like I said at the Frog Site: @graf meets CRAZY, Poa.st goes down.

2025-03-16 15:01:32 UTC

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Appears ablebodied; perfectly fuctioning web. Still begging for a handout.
"Black Gibs Spider"

2024-08-26 20:34:57 UTC

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A pharmacist I work with says "only calories matter; food is food." This moron makes $100k and gives meds to people. The stupid, it burns.

2024-08-24 14:48:27 UTC

@graf Most images not loading. They'll get about 5% then give up.

2024-08-22 17:52:55 UTC

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JFC. Pin that somewhere where we with bifocals and gin can see it. Money sent.

2024-08-22 17:48:02 UTC

@graf I am trying to send you money, one time payment, but being 58 am too retarded for the internet. I don't get the payment link; I don't want to subscribe to anything. Little help, here.
writer (at) 3-arstudios doge com

2024-08-14 22:33:09 UTC

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I'd missed this reply. Answer is "yes," and her boyfriend is a 17yo farmer/fisher from former Wisconsin she literally fell on out of the sky.
His name is Graf.

2024-08-10 06:30:22 UTC

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Whoa...

2024-08-10 06:25:05 UTC

My wife of 33 years is upstairs naked in bed and I'm drinking USD9.99 wine scrolling poa.st at 0224 while Pai is demanding in my head to write a story.
Mental illness is a hell of a drug.

2024-08-04 17:57:47 UTC

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Too soon to make a kebab joke?