This is still one of the best gags of all time and it's so era-specific

Somewhere, Eric Trump is weeping, saying, “Why doesn’t daddy ever smile at me like that?”

tee hee

I mean… the Peanuts strip is the og masterpiece here

The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson

I sent what I hope is the last pre-submission draft to the book packager on Monday! It should get a final round of line edits there and then get sent to their literary agent. I spent the last two days mostly sleeping.

uhhhh I'm going to say, to this person... no

libera te tutemet ex inferis

Finally! My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone. You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...

Backing away from telling a stranger that they’re basing a statement on the incorrect premise that all Force-sensitive people in the galaxy are Jedi. fuckin jedi order hegemony

The most Blueskyed I ever got was on Twitter when I expressed interest in a museum exhibit about Alexander the Great and some dude was like, “Sure, I suppose that would be interesting… IF YOU’RE PRO-GENOCIDE”

It's really funny to me that Polidori's vampire book is ALSO about what a creep Byron was.

OK, here's my quick and dirty, un-fact-checked recollection of the sitch in the Swiss chalet where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. She was there with her dude Percy, Byron, Byron's doctor what's-his-name who wrote a vampire novel; and her stepsister Claire, who was obsessed with Byron

del Toro: don't worry del Toro: i'm going to acknowledge byron with a big quote at the end Shelley: Shelley: why del Toro: because, you know del Toro: he's del Toro: um del Toro: i mean it kinda fits? Shelley: Shelley: put my fuckin quote at the end Shelley: i wrote the fucking thing!

Shelley: FINALLY, someone understands my vision! King: and what's your vision, mary? Shelley: that frankenstein is super fuckable King: the doctor or the monster? Shelley: why not both? del Toro: yeah, why not both?

I was right about there being more I needed to do on my manuscript. Some of the cuts the editors made left orphaned references. I didn’t catch them when I was addressing the development notes.

It’s not the most important issue here, but, Jesus, the way these guys write is worse than kids’ text messages.

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

I have thoughts about the use of Byron’s poetry as epigraphs in GDT’s Frankenstein that I should write properly about. Also about arsenic green and mauve dyes.

Got my flu and Covid vaccines today, so let’s see how archery goes!

there are a whole slew of christian traditions, and there is not in fact any easy rubrik for deciding which is authentic christianity—and really if you're not a christian, there's no reason to even think there is an "authentic" christianity

the christian bible is not a transparent rule book for virtue. 1

How to respond to times such as these?

It absolutely is, regarding teen girls and ED's. Something like 1 in 4 or 1 in 3 teens with an eating disorder have been sexually abused. And it's a very common reason given for developing anorexia, trying to "shrink" or desexualize their developing bodies.

My dog seems to have forgotten what rain is. Anytime a downpour starts, he barks at it. Such a special dumbass.

There aren’t enough opportunities in adult life to make dioramas.

Universe knows I love and value Brian, but the man always puts the top sheet on the bed with the right side facing up instead of down and I swear to god I’m just going to sit here staring at it and trying to convince myself not to fix it

Uh… Aurora Borealis? AURORA BOREALIS?!

Without Jason Mantzoukas in it, Taskmaster is just a bunch of British Strangers doing stupid shit I don’t care about.

“Him” being Trmp. I hope Judith Wishnia lives to see that too! Members of the Silent Generation are our last living links to World War II. Also, while the Boomers reduced the counterculture to “free love,” the SG provided the intellectual and organizing framework for the anti-war movement.

Brian and I are listening to the new album from The Mountain Goats, talking about how it sounds like a musical. And then in third track—Lin-Manuel Miranda doing backing vocals!

It’s so hard to explain this, and I get frustrated with MYSELF for not being able to get through or knock down what I call “the invisible wall”

Standing and staring at empty tables in restaurant for ten minutes while we wait to be seated

I think I’m pretty much done with the final edits of my novel before it goes to the editor for line edits and then to the literary agents to go out on sub. But I keep staring at the file thinking there must be something else I need to do.

10/10 take. No notes.

The news cycle around the typhoon situation in Cebu has been overshadowed by much of the US news but please think of our friends in the Philippines who are in need of help and resources. Many game studios have partners in the global south who can pitch in, please bring this to their attention

In my county, there was only one more item on the ballot: a tax increase to fund public hospitals (looks like it passed). In others, Prop 50 was the only thing on the ballot. People turned OUT for it

Rachel Maddow just said “on line” instead of “in line” when addressing Californians. Rachel! You’re from the Bay! Don’t forget your roots!

My newest self-portrait, set in 1667, the year in which Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published The Blazing World, a work of proto-speculative fiction in which a woman is transported into another world, where she is hailed as a goddess and creates her own religion.

I saw this print in the antique ukiyo-e print gallery in Japantown Center and fell in love. It’s part of Yoshitoshi’s 100 Aspects of the Moon. It depicts a woman distraught at her lover’s death, rolling and unrolling his letters to her until they’re in tatters. www.yoshitoshi.net/series/100mo...

My newest self-portrait, set in 1667, the year in which Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published The Blazing World, a work of proto-speculative fiction in which a woman is transported into another world, where she is hailed as a goddess and creates her own religion.

My dog’s name is Renfield. My nerdiest nickname for him is “Ren of the Field of Cloth of Gold.”

Please spread the word collecting dead bats or any animal as decorations is not okay. Beautiful tiny bats are now a threatened species due to collectors. Biodiversity is critical for our planet, all animals add value & belong here. Go to museums to see dead animals. therevelator.org/species-spot...

Hmmm

How have I never heard of a fun horror movie that stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing AND Vincent Price? How did that escape my radar? I blame @virginiabarksdale.bsky.social personally, I think.

Don’t mind me, I’m just a woman in black pajamas wielding a machete and hacking away at the overgrown philodendron in my front yard on Halloween

JUST IN: James Comey files a damning motion to dismiss the indictment against him, calling out Lindsey Halligan for her incompetence and obvious selective prosecution. I break down the motion & discuss how Comey has a powerhouse defense team that will kick the DOJ’s ass. youtu.be/MgEpZn5DhRU?...

Man, Gen X, our cohorts suck. But we already knew that