I'm reading tonight at Pete's Candy Store, doors 6:30 readings at 7. Come by if you want to have a good time.

Rewatching The Good Place for all the jokes I missed first time through and "Chicken Soup for the Mouth" is so far my favorite

There's all this shit going on, but also, I just got out of a meeting with my CSA where we've doubled our capacity to get fresh and organic food to people for cheap or free.

Hey cool, Sally Rooney wrote. "As a fellow author," she says, she really loved Body Horror. She then proceeded to recap the entire back of the book for me in five paragraphs, using many phrases I originally wrote myself! Always love hearing from fellow authors, Sally. Thanks for writing in.

One might imagine that five tumultuous years could provide a long enough respite but nope, the Capital Gazette episodes of Embedded are much more difficult to listen to now than they were then: www.npr.org/series/10088...

An absurdly large number of local artists (cismale) seem to think that their pronouns are "Mr."

Updated my site with a few upcoming events: anneelizabethmoore.com/calendar/

I was meh on the Epstein files until they started getting undiagnosed pedophiles ousted from top-tier jobs. Now THOSE are good files.

My Research Methodologies students this semester are just incredible, I will have to invent new forms of research just to keep up

uh oh. hints of something going on in the arena of catherine o'hara. what i am doing is shutting down this site and all other sites and stuffing fries into my eyes and ears (there is a burger joint here) until the silly meaningless talk passes

There's been another murder! It's like the eighth, ever, in my county.

Watching my second home town in I don't even know how many months get overrun by murderous federal goons is horrifying as hell but also the tv show Killing It is HILARIOUS fuck ice

Email confirmation that the meeting I am about to attend could have been an email. "If you have to cut out early just text me and I'll text you any details you missed" achievement unlocked

Well the Better Insulations Solutions Systems dudes are here and they seem to have four working dudes and four moral support dudes. Honestly they brought three vans. One of the dudes is apparently the light-bulb changer. The jokes just write themselves don't they

I AM HETERDOX is the greatest rallying cry of all time

You know, there are days I wake up and find the whole of my feed here is talking about yet another morally reprehensible incident, and I scroll and I scroll and I scroll until I hit the severe disgust that finding out what the incident is would provide and log off,

I have received an offline request to pick up with YA Romantasy Series idea and who the fuck are you people?

oh hell yes *something* is happening www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/08/h...

I know that we're all focused on bigger atrocities right now, but I am about to get Very Insufferable due to this MA-mandated Food Safety Allergen Awareness course.

If I had to date the onset of the horror that's been building in my gut and never seems to reach full capacity, now far larger than the actual gut or for that matter body containing it, it would be five years ago today.

Amazing news, the mold-inspecting subcontractor for Better Insulation Solution Systems operates under the business name, Reality Inspections

wow.

I DEFINITELY have a hangover and have DEFINITELY not had any alcohol whatsoever in several months so 2025 really was that bad, y'all. Good job getting to this point, we'll start back in on it again in the morning.

Oh look, it's the annual Include Women and Nonbinary Creators on Your Best-of-Year Lists Challenge

My hot sauce company just delivered its annual donation to Dirt Palace Public Projects. Sales were way way down this year across the board so maybe you want to pitch in a few bucks to ensure a space for feminist art practices into the future? www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

I had fallen into a near-catatonic state until i realized i could eat crab-dip quesadillas for dinner

Is it too early to inquire about brigitte bardot's lipstick application choices

Greetings from the Tinkertown Provisions Test Kitchen, where I am working, for the third consecutive winter, on SNOW., our (perpetually) upcoming hottest sauce. Inspired by the substance currently keeping me from leaving the house. Have I maced myself with it yet? Yes, twice

May you all be blessed by this image of my blissed-out cat in repose with his Christmas Gift, a piece of pizza filled with catnip

If anyone has any reason why I should NOT watch the Melanie Lynskey Christmas movie, please speak now or forever hold your peace

I went to the annual seven fishes dinner with a local celebrity chef and there were half as many fishes as last year but there were still like 98 fishes all told

When I am very old and begin to communicate in personal code, please tell my handlers that "that sexual harassment show" refers to Criminal Minds, ty

finished the roofing project with whole minutes to spare before the surprise blizzard started

As a writer slash hot saucier, I feel like the wide set of skills I have accrued should not also have to include light roofing. And yet.

Just as there are wash-your-hands-every-five-minutes microbiologists and eat-off-the-floor microbiologists, there are that'll-cost-you-$91K roofers and well-it-hasn't-fallen-on-you-yet roofers.

I have bad news about my community's ability to spell and good news about how much fun they have trying!

I don't wanna shame anybody but two of my coworkers sent me spelling bee word lists clearly generated with AI, as they contained the same words in the same order, as well as the same spelling errors.

I'll forget tomorrow since I'll be in drunk adult spelling bee purgatory but in case you want to gift your loved ones hot sauce: For the entirety of Sunday, December 14, Tinkertown Provisions has free shipping on all orders $35 and over with coupon code HOLIDAY. www.tinkertownprovisions.com

Per last night's email, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, you will not be "doing everything you can" to stop these disastrous health-care cuts going through while you still allow government to proceed as normal. People are going to die, and you will have let them.

hard agree

Did I just trade hot sauce for roof repairs? Tune in next Thursday, the next day it will get above freezing, to find out

Also, LOL, the son of comics illustrator Jack Kamen, which I know because when we interviewed him, we scooped the entire world in on the existence of the Segway when I ran a, yes, comics magazine

So, how're you-all feelin about the american experiment

fucking worthless douches actually are going to kill us all

is there anything more futile in december 2025 than taking an hr course on sexual harassment at an institute of higher education

apparently today is the day my hematologist learns i have a hard mode

It is very very difficult to figure out what words people are going to be able to spell correctly when you only ever see them drunk.

Swear to heck there have been more all-men lineups in comics, lit, and music events in the past six months than the entirety of my life before that. Enjoy hogging the whole goddam playing field while it lasts, boys!

Big hot-sauce experimentation week so I'm watching GHOSTS (US) and kind of getting in my feels about the inaccurate portrayal of cholera victims? They look pale and dirty all right, but they're *standing*. I don't know how your cholera went but mine was 100% horizontal

The Better Insulation Solution Systems guy is 25 minutes late