Taking a break; got lots of things I want to get to and social media is proving to be a distraction from that. Plus with spring coming, the garden isn't going to start itself. See ya soon!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Today seemed a good one to pick this up at my local comic shop.

Reminds me of the essay by @sgj.bsky.social in the linked book by Clarion West that says coincidence early: good, sets up conflict. Coincidence late: bad, cheats reader. locusmag.com/review/alvar... Bond's mom getting taken by Spectre at any point is dumb, but less so if it set up the tale, maybe.

Revisiting old music from my late 90s early 2000s, and with Television - Marquee Moon wrapping up it has come time to return to Neil Young - Trans, with the burned CD given me by @keith-mccarthy.bsky.social in our Wherehouse Music days when it got stuck in my Jeep CD player for six months. 1/2

What movie moment made you exclaim: THIS IS CINEMA

Automat - 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104043

Received a tad early my copy of Pandemonium Waltz and immediately kicked over my TBR tower then photographed it against a dark hallway with a blurry hellhound (the hellhound only appears if you're not looking right at it; try to and it disappears but you'll hear it all damn night). Git yours! Git!

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Periodic reminder that my people build horror castles at oceanside boardwalks so, ya know, keep that in mind.

I'm so tired of the manufactured (planned) rage and anticipated (planned) glib snark. Like I've had insomnia since autumn 2001 tired of all the bullshit. People have charbroiled their brains on internet nonsense for so long it's like, bye bye, humanity. Hello clicks!

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Was there the day before it burned down with the entire amusement pier in 1987. .......it wasn't me, I swear.

Brilliant.

Captures the feeling you got as a gamestand operator up earlier than the rest when most opened by the required 11 am start time. Joggers and older folks just walking by, nodding and saying hi; seagulls looking for lingering scraps of cold french fries from the overnight.

Whooooosh

A story in several parts ~~ Me last week at LCS, seeing some old Iron Man trades in the discount bin I usually forage through: eh I dunno; never really got into Iron Man. This week:

"I was standing in swanky restaurant in New York City wearing a black dress short enough to satisfy management, and I had just broken the most important rule of the job."

Neighborhood life when ICE agents terrorize your city. #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

I learned recently that an old classmate of mine died eight years ago, which shocked me, and it's been picking at me in the background so during today's writing session this small thing came out. falkensmaze1983.com/2026/02/02/s...

genuinely one of the dumbest people on the internet

I wrote a piece...i believe they call it "an appreciation"... about one of my comedy heroes: Ms.Catherine O'Hara. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

was reminded that I did a joint interview with Catherine O'Hara and Cecily Strong in the midst of the pandemic. a small but great insight from O'Hara about why she loved playing characters who were oblivious to how they came across to other people. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/a...

You are living in a "dual state." Acting morally begins with understanding that. My latest for @vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

For Liam.

Nooooooo! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)

Oh my god just go AWAY you gleeful sadists with bottomless hungers for treasure and retribution, stealing relentlessly from the American public. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RIP Bob Layzell, May 4, 1940 - Jan 29, 2026. I love his eerie alien planets.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I've been swimming in the UK television pool lately thanks to a WiFi rerouter set to Britain and a spare Roku (enough America please and thanks). Halfway through the run of this series and it's a college comedy that plays crude but is heartfelt. Love it. On Channel 4 in UK and I think Netflix in US.

It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

Fuck you. I won’t do what you tell me. Stay till the end.

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

Time to migrate myself off and cancel @evernote.bsky.social after like a dozen years. #FuckAI

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Bowie live tribute to Uncle Floyd, Berlin 2002 youtube.com/watch?v=cjs1...

Dear other Americans who didn't support any of this shit and have just had it, every fucking day with this shit and those fucks: take a winter walk whenever and whereever you can.

Five Concerts You've Seen with Women Lead Singers Last Dinner Party (everyone! Check em out!) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Rilo Kiley (also Postal Service also with Jenny Lewis of RK) Stevie Nicks Pretenders

Paying for online news: 100% agree. Paying for a month of online news to read one article with no option to just buy the article or one month and instead it auto-renews then you forget about it and it renews 30 days later and you're annoyed then have to disentagle it from your finances: fuck you.

The Daily Tarheel 🔥 www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, post the second sentence: "Word had it that he had made friends with too many students, had pinched the wrong butt."