It’s still extremely surreal to that I *wrote a video game* that’s out on Nintendo. Even more surreal is the fact that people seem to (really) like it! www.inverse.com/gaming/blipp...

What would Isaac Chotiner come after you for? ME: Well, okay, see, the Halloween candy was almost a year old at that point. CHOTINER: So that makes it okay to take it from the bag that's clearly marked with your children's names? I'm just trying to understand. Does that make it yours?

Explanation of Benefits* *The rules we made up that allow us to fuck you over

If it is a place in London and it is not an Underground stop, nearly a 100 percent chance I am going to pronounce it wrong.

I was thinking how unfair it is that only high-achieving young people, the ambitious ones who want to get somewhere, seek out mentors, giving them another advantage, so I'm looking to mentor someone with no ambition, offer tips on half-assing it and just getting by without doing too much damage.

So there must be slash TyLu stories by now, right?

One star. Not only are they journeymen, at best, they always insist I get a haircut at the same time.

‘A white man who wrote almost exclusively about criminals isn’t who most readers would go to for a nuanced portrayal of Black Americans’ inner lives, but Elmore Leonard was expert at showing the way racial and cultural dynamics change the calculus.’ J. Robert Lennon: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Someone should make a film about this woman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_O'D...

I covered this much more thoroughly in How Not to Write a Novel, btw.

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

The cartoons published upon Walt Disney’s death in 1966 double nicely as cartoons about the present Jimmy Kimmel situation.

I was thinking this kind of grotesquely garbled idiom might be a wrong-number-of-fingers indicator of AI generated text, but then I remembered that legit human writers do it all the time, as discussed in How Not to Write a Novel.

Amendment making it illegal to make fun of anyone with a net worth greater than 200 million.

Whenever I'm angry and want to go to bed, I remember that piece of advice, "Never go to bed angry," and get even angrier.

Fascinating, intelligent fellow creatures, but also yummy.

Bullshit "noise-cancelling" headphones only cancel the noise outside my head.

Those are some well-laid schemes you've got there. Be a shame if they were to gang agley.

folk horror be like "here's some twigs arranged in a different than usual way"

If you want a break from all this, there is nowhere better than Programme 4.

The Worst Enemy Of Arthritis

I'm buying things from Amazon, which I've avoided until now. What I've learned, which I guess everyone else knows, is there are dozens, or hundreds of e.g., cheap wire dish racks, and each one has lists of its special features, hundreds of words of copy, but they are all just cheap dish racks.

@theguardian.com Hi, The Guardian. Can you just confirm that no matter how much money I give you as one-time contributions, or how often I do that, I'm going to have popups asking me to set up monthly payments until I do?

Published in 1998, so I guess Banks wasn't creating a Swiftian land of tech bros, but it is very tempting to think so.

Started a new book yesterday - Wish I was here by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social I’ve been wanting to read this for ages as I know I’m going to love it. #books

MJM (opens up closet of chunky knits): RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE, my beauties. Rise.

Lot of great Moby Dick posts on my timeline today

Couple regrets buying house on beach because, I swear to god that this is the story, it didn't occur to them to think about what it would be like when summer was over. www.businessinsider.com/moved-to-bea...

I think my new hearing aids make me look fat, because now I hear people saying I'm fat, and that never used to happen.

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

I still occasionally fall for things I shouldn't. This is one such occasion.

As a dedicated male feminist who is disgusted with the way the patriarchy dictates standards of female beauty, I make it a point to only fantasize about women who aren't conventionally attractive.

On the edge of another year teaching The Crucible, Macbeth, Hamlet, Frankenstein ... and have always worked to make texts relevant to daily life and current events. It used to take a bit of effort and creativity

Can't. Denying any wrongdoing.

"Perused the menu with alacrity?" No, not distinct enough. "Unhesitatingly buttered the toast?" Just doesn't capture the man. "Promptly gulped his juice?" Better, but no. There has to be something, dammit, a telling detail, something you don't see every day, something really worth mentioning.

Other ways you can support my work: • Save the cool side of the pillow for me • Don't let anyone eat my dessert • Curse my enemies to eternal damnation, early and often

could use a little less passionate intensity from the worst for a day or two

Along with walking on the moon, Mankind's great dream since time immemorial.

@eggsbened.bsky.social I assume you and everyone else in your choir is already aware of this, but just in case. tiff.net/films/the-ch...

Guy just walked into the cafe carrying this over his shoulder. "Trombonist, are you?" I ask.

Bathing machines, but for going out anywhere.

"30 articles per month. If you did this, and only this, for a whole year, you would make $12,240 off of 360,000 words of published material." Jesus, man. danielcruse.substack.com/p/the-things...

"Jeff, where is the new issue of Good Good Things? I need something good." Me: "How about many good things? Hmmm?" www.gojeffgo.com/good-good-th...

Returning to the office after an absence you did not plan. titivil.com?p=86

lot of you seem very optimistic about who'll be writing the history of all this

From the beginning it was never going to work. I was too self-involved, and she was whatever her whole deal was.