I am never here. I decided to do my shitposting on the press's account, since I am it and it is me.

Oh, so THAT's what it feels like to get 150 hostile emails in the span of a couple hours.

I took myself to the opera.

My least favorite part about my day job is telling faculty members that an emergency for them is not necessarily an emergency for me.

the gun is always loaded there's a fed in every chat your phone's a beacon telling every cop right where you're at your bluesky feed is archived and your twitch they're watching live so watch your mouth in public if your ass plans to survive.

I met Ray Bradbury when I was in high school. I told him "I'm a writer too." He replied, "that's nice" and turned to talk to someone else. Not much has changed since then.

I see a butterfly. Or a weird sign. Or a dad carrying his baby in a moby. I take a photo. And I miss having someone to send it to.

One year since my mom died.

I AM THE KING OF HYBRID CONFERENCES! BOW DOWN, ALL YE PANELISTS. BOW DOWN!

First time eating Somali food. It was excellent.

I took myself to the symphony for Valentine's Day.

I bought a box of around a hundred 45s. Almost all songs I've never heard before. Every night, I sit in my comfy chair in the basement and listen to a handful while sipping whiskey. I swear it's the only thing holding me together lately.

My dog doesn't have much of a sense of humor. Every time he barks or otherwise tries to get my attention, I ask him, "Is Timmy stuck in the well?" And he never laughs.

I just threatened to shiv my day job's new accounting system in the shower. So that's how my day is going.

My 10 favorite albums of 2024: Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene Ayra Starr - The Year I Turned 21 Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive Kim Gordon - The Collective Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia Being Dead - Eels Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Brittany Howard - What Now (1/2)

After spending 27 hours in the ER and hospital with my kid, who had a concussion, I can confidently say: fjkdsfjkljlkdsfjkldfsljkfdslkfj

I'm having a very hard time lately. Appreciating Romeo Void and Brigid Brophy, not much else.

My kid's team won their hockey tournament. The opposing coach spent the last 11 minutes in the penalty box for verbally abusing the refs. Parents, your kids learn how to behave from you. Act like an adult.

My kid is playing in an outdoor hockey tournament. I am very cold.

Rare photo of all three mammalian pets on the same bed.

The difference between good professors and bad professors is that good professors talk to the staff like they're humans and bad professors talk to the staff like they're machines that do service work.

I cleaned the snow off my car with a hockey stick. I think I'm eligible for Canadian citizenship.

Performance management midyear recalibration MOTHERFUCKER I WILL RUN AWAY INTO THE WOODS

Happy birthday to me.

I'm really enjoying this despite the previous owner's use of pen and two different highlighters to belabor every single point.

There once was a man from

Minor league hockey! Maine Mariners vs. the Trois-Rivieres Lions.

I think the first New Year's resolution I'll break is to understand people better.

My 12 favorite reads of 2024. (1/2) Theognis, Elegies (6th century BCE) Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (1935) David Goodis, Shoot the Piano Player (1956) Kathleen Sully, Skrine (1960) Charlotte Armstrong, The Protege (1970) Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979)

Saw the new Bob Dylan movie. Fan service for boomers. A few good impressions of famous people.

Hey, I'm in here!! Get ready to get real sad for like 2 minutes when you hit page 5. 😅

My family gets me.

Stripey agrees that this is better than Raymond Chandler, better than Dashiell Hammett. Better than most things.

I'm sorry that project is late. I'm trapped here for the foreseeable future.

On sick days we read absurdist Egyptian drama.

Someday, one of your descendants will throw away that box of Christmas cards you're keeping. Happy holidays!

Mmmmmm Elmore Leonard.

Seems legit.

It's 1991. We're in the van coming back from a debate meet. The theater girls are playing Phantom again. Against my will, I'm starting to like it.

You will not see my list of favorite books of 2024 while there is still some 2024 left.

Cleaning out my mom's house.

You want to hook me right away? Tell me your book is a found manuscript.

Youth hockey practice is where we read incredibly weird and funny classic fantasy/horror novels.

New at This Island Rod, I set out to do to Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus what the average xenomorph does to the human body: thisislandrod.blogspot.com/2024/10/alie...

Finally going in. It's astounding from page 1.

Sometimes I catch up. Nothing that I need to do right now. I can relax. And it feels so terrifying.

When you're mean to me, this is who you're being mean to

10 bands to get to know me Prince Marvin Gaye Love Public Enemy XTC De La Soul David Bowie Talking Heads X The Kinks