Just got hacked, so I don't know what's going on, but do know who did it.

"Everything is hard the first time you try it." --Musashi

Every adult child of an alcoholic watched that U.N. meeting and had a flashback to when their parents went to a PTA meeting drunk. It's embarrassing.

This is my fourth or fifth rapture, and I'm a mess.

The coolest toy ray gun ever! And, it plays music, eventually.

I got angry that I let them get me angry. Man, I just can't do this today.

Who even watches broadcast TV, anyway? 20 minutes of commercials for 40 minutes of "entertainment" means half the time you're watching commercials. If you're comparison shopping that sucks.

In the 70's Disney almost went bankrupt and IT WAS GREAT! No Star Wars but Planet of the Apes. No Apple Dumpling Gang, but Bullit, Patton, Harold & Maude, Valdez is Coming, Bonnie & Clyde, anything we wanted to see-- because first wave boomers didn't care about kids. Those people are MAGA now.

It's hard watching humanity go through the same cycles over and over without learning. After 5000 years you start to look pretty stupid.

A must read for every real American--and everybody else, too.

The world is screaming release the Epstein files, and we can't even get a September jobs report.

Turns out my life on the fringes of society wasn't such a bad idea after all.

The best thing about modern politics is that it gives me authoritarian characters for the heroes to chop and cleave into tiny cubes based on real life people. Hell, I wrote a story about killing my neighbor and sold it once. #Write

"By surviving, we win." --Glimmer Rats

So, according to the the Supreme Court and our president, free speech is only good when it's money now?

Live your life in a way so that nobody knows your real name, your real history, or anything about you. Learn to skulk. When they ask what you do for a living say, "This and that."

Maybe that's why they're so pissed about Charlie Kirk?

Can we go back to talking about what we're going to do when he dies? Those were the happiest conversations.

Discovered a Fredric Brown Ed & Am mystery I hadn't read. Tame by modern standards, but for Carnies that lived in the pre-Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago they got into a lot of trouble.

R.I.P. Robert Redford. First time I saw this movie, I stayed in the theater and watched it twice. If not for The Sting I might not have written any books about con men. His face at the end of Downhill Racer when he feels the crack in his armor. Butch and Sundance. youtu.be/86QvWlaGXjc?...

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. But, most of all, it was the stupidest of times." --Oliver Twisted

Call me a romantic, but I still like to believe Angela Mao could beat up twenty guys without breaking a sweat. youtu.be/zpo-vca375g?...

Secret Agent X Vol. II, containing one of my early stories, is back in print. www.amazon.com/dp/1969285001

I love those martial arts set-ups where they have the little Tai Chi guy losing against a 350 lb. mixed martial arts gorilla, because in real life a Taoist philosopher would just wait until the other guy wasn't looking and hit him in back of the head with a 2x4.

Remember humility? Yeah, that was cool.

"During the 1950s, the concentration of economic power was a major concern for lawmakers and journalists. Congress passed the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger Act in 1950, which aimed to prevent a repeat of the German industrial monopolies that were seen as complicit in the Nazi regime's rise to power."

Announcer: This just in-- [Chorus line appears behind him doing the conga] CL: Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! [wave and kick right] Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! [Wave and kick left] Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! [Wave and kick right] Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! [Shake their asses at the camera and continue.]

The homeless people they bitch about fit the same profile as the "American Rugged Individuals Who Bravely Conquered the West." We just ran out of land.

It's time for homeless people to start killing FOX news anchors. (Turnabout is fair play.)

The government ordering Taoists to mourn is truly one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

I just saw the written music for Spinal Tap's Stonehenge (with tabs), and they're coming out with a remake of DEATHSTALKER. We may not be able to do anything original, but we are in for The Classic Age of Bad Classics!

I want Green Lantern finger picks for guitar.

It's my birthday. I really do need a cheap semi hollow body guitar for my last big BBQ gig of the season. Obnoxious looking is fine, it's how it plays--so I get to hit the shops. And, I've been inspired to read the crime short stories of Chicago's own Fredric Brown this weekend.

I'll say it again.

"Weapons are the tools of fear." --Laozi

Wow, you guys suck at lyrics. I'll try something simpler. The song by Muddy Waters in which he says "I'm a man." But he's not, he's a Mannish _ _ _. Three letters meaning young male. Starts with a "B." Can you name that tune? (Definitely the last round) Mannish _ _ _.

Seems to me the NRA and the 2nd amendment crowd did more to get Kirk shot than anybody on the left.

Most of the people in my neighborhood don't even know who Charlie Kirk is.

Don't be scared. The past is pain and the future is anxiety. It's always been that way.

A romance pulp editor who had previously worked as a spy in WWI would truly be the stuff of legend, though. Just sayin'. 👀

Tomorrow's 9/11. America's happiest week ever!

New kettle is weird. Keeps blowing on the stove and saying HACHEEE MACHEEE

If they wanted us to have more children they shouldn't have made us babysit the President.

"Dead issue"? That's what they said about The Heap! (And Solomon Grundy, and Man-Thing, and Swamp Thing and a whole slew of mucky humanoid freaks.)

Anybody want to help me smuggle some musical instruments in from Germany? "They made me a criminal." --John Garfield selling guitars

Headline: Maga is revolting. "They've always been revolting." Old jokes in real time.

This panel was the highlight of my day.

ah yes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser