the only rapture i want to hear about is from our queen Anita Baker www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-b...

i watched the original 1968 Columbo pilot, "Prescription: Murder", for first time & it's great. Falk is finding his footing as Columbo, Gene Barry is a smug, worthy adversary ("You're a sly little elf!" he tells Columbo), & the script is super tight, not a wasted moment. On Peacock.

Rice Owl Luke McCaffrey scores his first NFL touchdown

my wife has fallen asleep on the couch so i can't scream about the #Arsenal equalizer, am silently celebrating

it's almost bubble shaped

i swear people lose IQ points on Facebook

expecting Disney+ to take down THE SOUND OF MUSIC what with it referring to Nazis as Nazis

next season Dancing with the Stars contestants are all the Cabinet members

in case you want to root for the asteroid passing us tomorrow www.livescience.com/space/astero...

i have been trying to fix a short story for a week and gave myself permission to abandon its 5K words and came up with three better ideas for stories in a 15 minute period

touch grass or even taste it (one blade is enough when you stare up at the sky), just log off and be. Kurt agrees

recent reads: 750+ pages: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, anthology of stories set in the universe of Stephen King's THE STAND 860+ pages: THE COMPLETE HERCULE POIROT STORIES that's a lot of short stories, i should get a badge or medal

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

I was the production editor on eight of Thomas Perry's novels, including five of the Jane Whitefield series, and he was a delight to work with. Plus, in between actively working on them, I would simply sit and reread lengthy passages for the sheer pleasure of it. He was a master. Farewell to him.

and they want more AI working with students. NO.

"AI-first" i hate this timeline (probably trained their AI on all the work their freelancers did)

great thread(s)

y'all they had on THE PRICE IS RIGHT and I guessed wrong on everything

making the gerrymandering here even more necessary to them

this is so wonderfully done, Robert Redford and Gladys Cooper

'the pleasure of being able to do the work' is one of the best descriptions of the creative drive. RIP, to a great actor and director, Robert Redford

i think it's all the Central Markets (Austin/Dallas/Houston), ach du lieber!

if you're in Austin the Lamar Central Market is doing a "Passport Germany" event thru Sept 23 with tons of specialty beers, German wines, baked goods, German products, recipes, etc. I got strudel and sauerkraut and pumperknickel and some beers and wines new to me

AI gonna be replacing the....AI workers

back to physical therapy today and excited to see if American Ninja Warrior is still on the waiting room TV like the last two times. It has NEVER not been on when i've been there. i might get there early to take in a full episode

the Agatha Christie films include Miss Marple and Poirot and a couple of standalones (sadly not the 70s/80s Death on the Nile or Evil Under the Sun)

it feels like restaurant entree prices have gone up $10, no joke, at some of my longtime favorites. suspect those prices will never be coming down

i feel bad for Burnley. nearly drew with Liverpool with only ten players on until the very final minutes

Amazing clip of Minnie Riperton on SOUL TRAIN in 1974. She performs “Lovin’ You” and “Reasons.” At the end, when Don is interviewing her, you can hear what sounds like a child crying. “That’s my little girl,” she says. “She wants to be a singer.” It’s Maya Rudolph, age 2 youtu.be/ICD-_JepM64?...

ESPN+ explaining Rice’s residential college system and I love it

about to slip out of my Univ of Texas shirt and into my Rice shirt; i look great* in both *vaguely presentable

Watching this Texas performance I’m glad I don’t listen to sports radio it gonna be brutal this week

texas football is looking very mid right now, they should be dominating utep

remember their panic about death panels?

Peleton instructor: I want your breathing to feel like you can have a conversation but you're hot and sweaty my conversation: singing "Don't Change" loudly by INXS

If you’re scrolling too fast Astin looks like an Anglican bishop

i loved KINGS, it was very out there but entertaining and had a great cast and i think it would have done better in a streaming world

lovely, funny story

it's okay if you have friendships that have expiration dates move on with gladness

i haven't been to bouchercon or any writing conference for several years & as soon as I think of going to one I see multiple people returning from one testing positive for covid or down with flu so there's that

you're not supposed to sing along with N*SYNC during your Peloton ride but I'm a rogue homicide detective who doesn't play by the rules

i fear we'll have a scripted tv drama normalizing this in the next five years, "ICE Agents" or something, and shame on anyone who works on it

Funeral Fawn they called her

at physical therapy office they always have american ninja warriors playing on tv, i am just...are you trying to inspire us or shame us

i don't want to fill out your survey about your service unless i have an issue. if i don't complain then everything is fine. i do not need an email or a text or a followup call and i don't need all three to tell you that you did a good job

"school shooting industry"

when you have an idea and you just sort of stare at it like you're not sure how quickly it will fall apart under narrative pressure or does the main character feel interesting enough to spend so much time with does it have a glow of power about it and does it feel new in the right way

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

it's amazing how much the use case for AI involves people being world-historical dumbasses without it