Happy birthday to the wonderful Colleen Dewhurst (June 3, 1924–August 22, 1991). Here she is with the equally wonderful Roscoe Lee Browne in The Cowboys (1972).

"I don’t say she murdered him, Lavinia. I merely observe that no man goes from robust to commemorative quite that quickly without assistance." "And did you notice the widow wore navy?" "At breakfast!" "Exactly, Eudora. A woman in navy before noon is either bereaved or plotting unpleasantness."

As a person who writes and loves words, I'm tired of people misusing the word factoid. Contrary to popular notion, it doesn't mean a small or trivial fact; it means something that resembles a fact but isn't one (humanoid is to human what factoid is to fact). Fun fact: Norman Mailer coined the term.

Some eldritch ficus roots in my neighborhood.

My actual parents

Happy birthday, old friend 💔

Agatha Christie needed me to be her editor. Mishaps from The Moving Finger: (1) You’ve got to take life slowly and easily, the tempo is marked Legato. (2) As we were finishing, two excited little boys rushed in and were introduced, Mrs. Symmington beaming with maternal pride, as was their father.

I've got gardenias!

I wish there were a way to filter out certain images from my feed. It's getting really irritating to see Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" used every fifth post for the most picayune nonsense. Can people please try to be just a little more original?

🎧 📚 As you may know, from time to time I score old paperback covers (because no one told me I couldn’t!). Another installment in this utterly unnecessary (and fun) project. 🎼 #soundtrack #peplum #swordandsandal #ralphgraves #cavaterra #composer #cinemusic #scoredcovers #losteagles #ancientrome

This is strangely sad. 😢 Farewell, Jeeves... www.ask.com

Happy #Caturday! 🤣

"Trust me. You ain't ever encountered monsters like these before." The paperback edition of ENCOUNTERS is out now! www.amazon.com/dp/0648731596 With stories by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social @notmargopecha.bsky.social @rlmeza.bsky.social @cavaterra.bsky.social and more...

@slimyswampghost.bsky.social @rlmeza.bsky.social @calebbethea.bsky.social @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social @notmargopecha.bsky.social @cavaterra.bsky.social @jennystrath.bsky.social @vilefable.bsky.social @authorlevai.bsky.social Congratulations, everyone! 🎉🎉

Happy Ides of March! 😁 🔪 🏛️ 🗡️

Found this giveaway lying on the grass in my neighborhood. I'm taking it as a good omen. 🍀 👣 🦕 🦑 👽 @andrewcull.bsky.social @slimyswampghost.bsky.social

Tagging @slimyswampghost.bsky.social, @jennystrath.bsky.social, @rlmeza.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @notmargopecha.bsky.social, @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @vilefable.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social Fantastic news, everyone!

So delighted to be a part of this anthology! Happy Friday the 13th and book birthday 🎉 📕 🎂 #cryptid #folkhorror #horrorfiction #monsters

My baby 🥰 🎹

This timeline is like a Twilight Zone script that Rod Serling would have rejected for being too on the nose. 😩

Oh, the joy and agony of REVISION! 😩 The thrill of deadheading needless words and watching the sentence bloom; the misery of tunneling for them without collapsing the whole mine. And the dogged hunt for the single strong word to replace ten weak ones. To have revised is bliss. To revise is hell.

Cavaterra | Rhapsody on a Windy Night YPSO | David Ramadanoff, conductor Musikverein, Vienna | 2022 Euro Tour youtu.be/KQr4EgYfk7Q?...

R.I.P. Robert Duvall (1931–2026). I found this on Wikipedia: > Mareen Duvall (1625–1694) was a French Huguenot and an early American settler... His notable descendants include Harry S. Truman, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Wallis Simpson, Warren Buffett, and Robert Duvall. < How weird is that??? 😮

I know they probably turn into demons after midnight, but I want one! 😼 🦇 🧛‍♂️ 🖤 Credit: www.instagram.com/weoyohk/

Thrilled to be part of ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS, edited by Trevor Henderson & Andrew Cull! My story "Scrapiron Jack" joins a terrifying lineup of cryptid horrors. Releases Friday the 13th of March! Preorders open! 👣 🐟 🦑 🛸

Happy Caturday night! 😼 (No, it's not AI.)

Mood...

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My Fantasy-Étude No. 1 for piano, commissioned and performed by the great Gustavo Díaz-Jerez. Score and performance on screen. youtu.be/qRkjJuASfew

Petition to verb Mercator (named for Gerardus Mercator): to mercate = to distort scale or importance until the ignorant nod. E.g., “That map mercates Greenland.” “Those stats have been subject to mercation.” “My résumé? Lightly mercated.” Etc.

Blue Winter (2019) Kevin Kumar, violin solo Maia Jasper-White & Hana Kim, violins Meredith Crawford, viola Yoshika Masuda, cello Bernard Gordillo, harpsichord Jason Yoshida, archlute youtu.be/8EUBWf3CBTM

Happy birthday Dana Andrews, born on this day in 1909. 🎂 🎥 🎬

Finally, a beauty product that answers the age-old question: What if my NOSTRILS were the statement feature? Truly a bold new frontier in cosmetics science.

Someone's house, Los Angeles. I feel certain that somewhere between palm trees and starlight, Marlene Dietrich is about to glide through those doors in liquid satin and pause just long enough to accept applause before vanishing into a waiting Mercedes Cabriolet. (Photo courtesy Tom Biddison.)

I'd really love to see the letter that prompted this response from Shirley Jackson. 🤣

Man-eating butterflies.

Happy 122nd to Cornell Woolrich, shadowy godfather of noir. From The Bride Wore Black to Black Angel to Black Alibi, his “black” novels evoke a world where dread seeps through every doorway and cast a spell that crime fiction never escaped. His influence still coils through the genre like smoke. 🖤

Today’s installment of my extremely serious mission to give old paperback covers their own soundtracks. 🎧 📚 Just a little composer–nerd side quest...

Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!

Early selfie experiments with my father's antique Rolleiflex 😄

OMG Google did NOT get sassy with me this Monday 😮

Caturday mood... 😼

The artist who painted this cover must have just seen The Bandwagon...

☘️ There aren't many great non-dirty limericks, but there are a few... There was an old dame named McBride Who ate a green apple and died The apple fermented Within the lamented And made cider inside her inside.

📢 Some good news to start the week: My first horror story, "Scrapiron Jack," has been accepted for publication in the Encounters with Cryptids anthology! Many thanks to editors @andrewcull.bsky.social & @slimyswampghost.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing this weird beast with the world soon. 🐟⚓️