Trying green tea instead of coffee in the morning for various health reasons, only to discover that...green tea tastes pretty good!

Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.

Fully expecting to see "pirating books is morally correct because those fat-cat authors are all rich on product placement deals" by the end of the day, sigh.

This better not awaken anything in me

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

my gender reveal party

"You see," Adams said, "I'm clearly much smarter than god. As such he will surely mistake my bet-hedging strategy for legitimate belief, and welcome me into the kingdom of heaven."

Last month's electric bill, for heating a one-room studio apartment: $309. Literally half is "delivery charges." Bill notes that I used 22% LESS electricity than last December. If anything forces me to leave RI, it'll be Rhode Island Energy.

It's Editing Pass Friday, because I really like kicking the weekend off by reviewing all of my most recent and embarrassing mistakes.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

I have a single resolution for 2026. Tell the best stories I possibly can. All else is commentary.

Happy new year, loves. Let's make this tired world a better place.

As a teenager I devoured every short story and interview in any Playboy I could get my paws on. I know "I read it for the articles" is a long-hallowed joke, but it's one with a core of truth: there was a time when Playboy was a legitimately excellent outlet for journalism and fiction.

2026 is for the sickos.

Ending 2025 with AEW, Willow getting her belt back and more importantly, Willow and Kris hugging, was exactly what I needed on the last night of this horrorshow year.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

Just found out Nancy Drew enters the public domain on Thursday, so expect at least three shitty Nancy Drew slasher movies by February. "The clues are piling up...and so are the BODIES." There ya go, you can have that one for free

Shriekback called. They want you to look up the word "parthenogenesis."

Mugger: Gimme your wallet! Me: You know, it could be said that the REAL wallet is the friends I made along the way

Quietly appreciative as I work on this manuscript, brew a cup of tea, glance out over the snowy street and say, "Yep. Not setting foot out there."

Sometimes I get really dumb ideas, and then I have to put those dumb ideas down on paper. This short is a prequel to the upcoming next Daniel Faust novel...and also the goofiest thing I've written since Hex the Moon. www.patreon.com/posts/146660...

Colonel: Snake, this is Yule Tideman. He'll be helping on this mission YT: You're carrying the Synapse Augmenting Nano Tech Armament, or SANTA Snake: SANTA? YT: That's right. SANTA will provide PRESENTS or COAL, depending on your GOODNESS meter. Snake: Goodness. Hmmn.

It's Christmas morning and I am writing a very dumb short story. It might actually be too dumb for human consumption, but we'll see.

Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water. You *will* find them in the worst possible way.

"It appears that Tiny Tim did NOT die. Agent 47, your next mission is quite simple..."

Went to get myself a nice bottle of absinthe for the holiday, came home only to find the Mari Lwyd leaning against my door and smoking a cigarette. Which was pretty weird, given the whole "skeletal horse" thing but whatever. She asked me, "Do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

As we rejoice in community this Christmas Eve, I encourage our neighbors to read this powerful piece by local reporter and author, Phil Eil. In Providence, we don’t scapegoat our communities. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

This is a thing I've wrestled with in my own books. Which made me transition from "The Network is an unstoppable force of evil" to "Why the fuck would you EVER work for these pathetic dorks, they fucking suck and lie constantly to their own people, promising shit they'll never deliver."

"Babe, I want you to promise me that you'll never do coke, because you would like it WAY too much and it'll turn you into more of an asshole than you already are." -- my first girlfriend

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

NPCs who insist you follow them, but they walk faster than your walking speed but slower than your running speed. GODDAMNIT DEVS, THIS ISN'T HARD.

Okay, so it's Taco Tuesday and I'm trying something new (to me), making taco meat in a slow cooker. I have no idea if this will work out, but my studio apartment smells amazing.

Which is delightful to me because Survivor's Rocky montage song, Burning Heart, is a staple of the Castaways soundtrack (though it'll mostly be relevant in book four)

Watching this unfold while my publisher decides on a release date for the first Neon Meridian novel and I'm like "...this is literally what the book is about, plz put it out now okay?"

Okay, so gonna admit to the nerdiest-ass business because this is important to me. It's public knowledge that I fight with clinical depression. Just gotta deal with it, whatever. For years, My Little Pony has been a refuge for me. Again, whatever.

"Well you don't REALLY understand AI, you're obviously lying about having studied LLMs because if you really did, you'd embrace-" aaand blocked. All you had to do, to win me over, was explain what "You'll be left behind" means in practical terms. And you couldn't even try.

My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.

They say winners don't do drugs, but I've compared my gaming win/loss ratio while sober vs. playing on edibles, and I believe I have found receipts to the contrary

Guess I'll post this again

Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Got a flyer under my door with the FBI's tip line number. Here's a tip: maybe don't put incompetent buffoons in charge of the FBI.

ICYMI: yesterday, I wrote an op-ed for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social that tried to capture how these last few days in Providence -- my beloved hometown -- have felt. I also invited other PVD folks to share their own thoughts: [email protected].

Staple Street Skybridge, Tribeca, NYC 📷Joe Pollarine

Do not send them the script for the Bee Movie. Nobody wants the script for the Bee Movie. This is extremely derogatory and interferes with these brave people's crusade to ensure that folks who have never done them any harm or done anything wrong are properly forbidden from peeing. Do NOT send the Be

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Soon! I'm kind of swamped with a billion projects right now (good problem to have), but the next Faust novel is my top priority. It involves a jaunt to a pair of parallel worlds featured previously in the First Story saga. Which Daniel will proceed to ruin because that's what he does

People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.