I can't believe it's been 15 years. Thankful to everyone who showed me kindness in Tuscaloosa in the days after 4/27/11

Gil Was Right The revolution will not be televised. We missed that window. If we're gonna pull it off, it'll have to be on TikTok.

I'm pretty sure the guy being healed is a really emaciated Brett Favre. I guess he's fallen on hard times since he stole all that money in Mississippi. Also, the thing in the clouds in the middle appears to be a cross between a winged statue of liberty and the witch king of Angmar.

So how exactly does one get the crazies to ban your book? Asking for a friend who would see it as a badge of honor lol :P

I apologize that I haven't been on here much lately, but to my (tens of?) fans who have been waiting, I have finally published the sequel to The Legend of Colgan Toomey! www.amazon.com/Legacy-Colga...

RE Yesterday's Jeopardy! TOC Quarterfinal. Man that Tom Devlin is really really good. Easily the most impressive thing I did on Jeopardy! was give that guy a close game his first episode.

RIP to Alabama civil rights icon Claudette Colvin, who, at 15, sparked the Montgomery bus boycott that Rosa Parks was also involved in. Though much less well known (due to decisions of the movement's leaders), this courageous woman should also be remembered. www.claudettecolvinfoundation.com

The comparison that really jumps out to me is this one: There have been twice as many _popes_ since 1969 than Pittsburgh Steelers' head coaches.

The J! Champions Wild Card goes on without me today. As a spectator, I missed the van to the studio but they let me in right before the game started. I told a producer that I'd taken a city bus down to Skid Row and burned all my study material to help a homeless guy keep war. He almost believed me.

I have a number of new followers here since my reappearance on the Alex Trebek Stage. If you are so inclined, please check out my novels, The Legend of Colgan Toomey (sequel coming soon) and Old Soldiers Never Die. www.amazon.com/Legend-Colga...

I learned last night that CJ Stroud, quarterback of the Houston Texans, bears the full name Coleridge Bernard Stroud, IV (don't ask me where the J comes from lol). Since my team is out, and since Coleridge is one of my favorite poets, I'm going to have to root for Houston!

I definitely need to be more active here since I shouted out bsky on Jeopardy! I am going to do that going forward :) Here is a link to a poem I wrote about my J! experience. www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/c...

I dreamed last night that Jeopardy made us memorize our games and perform them on stage. Then I forgot my lines and won a game I wasn't supposed to and I got yelled at by the game show compliance guy.

Now that I have been on Jeopardy!, I have a new ultimate goal, which is for me or one of my works be a clue on the show. This will be much harder to achieve, and, considering getting on the show took me thirty years, pretty unlikely overall. But if you want to help, www.amazon.com/Legend-Colga...

Thank you to everyone who watched me on Jeopardy!, supported me, talked about my beard, made up D&D characters about me, and generally enhanced this amazing experience. I love you all. Go read some indie books (including mine if you get a chance).

Hey, someone made a weird AI video about me lol: (Politifact would rate it mostly true) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keu5...

Random Trivia Question: What do Elizabeth Taylor, Tim McGraw, and Me all have in common?

Apologies to Tone Loc, but someone should do a full version of this for DC/Chicago/Portland/Memphis: We must be clear Troops can't be here Due to Posse Comitatus...

Bad Bunny should come out dressed as a minister and perform Taylor and Travis's wedding as the halftime show.

Hey y'all! Guess what! I'm going on Jeopardy :) Watch 10/17

Huey Long famously said he never represented a rich man. Rich, I suppose can be subjective. What I will say, is that I have never represented a corporation against a human being, and I never will.

Catching up on emails this morning, in the Supreme Court opinion summaries I get, I was briefly very confused as to why the American Association of Retired Persons was suing on behalf of detainees. (not that that wouldn't be commendable). Turns out one of the plaintiff's initials are A.A.R.P. lol

Easily my favorite leader of a nation in the 21st century has passed away: www.bbc.com/news/article... I suppose it's fitting that Pepe and El Papa passed within a few weeks ago. Two true servant leaders from the same part of the world.

Here is a sonnet for you all: www.tiktok.com/@poetrysanta...

I have finally started uploading stuff to TikTok again, and I'm going to try to remember to cross post it here on bsky lol: www.tiktok.com/@poetrysanta...

SNL really needs to do a skit where Charlie Day snorts various substances to find out "Is it Coke?"

From a friend who has reasons not to post it: The federal government says it will now be hiring on MERIT... which apparently stands for Male Europeans Right in There

Did they really have to have the first European security conference of this admin in Munich? Isn't that just a little too on the nose?

I used to think a right-winger was a person who would sell his own grandmother for the right price. Either they've changed or I was far too generous about motive. These days, they'd do it just to own the libs.

Can you imagine what the women who were on Catching Kelce are thinking right about now? I honestly don't know whether I would feel better or worse knowing I was really competing against Taylor Swift lol.

If you had told my Dad in 1985 that in 40 years long distance telephone calls would be free, but you'd have to pay for many aspects of network television, he'd definitely have asked you for your weed connection.

In addition to being a wannabe novelist, I am also an attempted poet, and president of the Alabama State Poetry Society (trust me they don't give that to the best poet) - www.alpoets.org/officer-bios

Alright so let's start trying to use this platform, lol. The link in the first reply is to my novel, The Legend of Colgan Toomey. It's about football, and Texas music, and the Salvadoran Civil War, and a serial killer in the borderlands... but it's really about how we never actually know anyone.

So, I created this account, and have yet to really explore or do anything with it. I'm Dargan, I am an attorney, poet, and novelist from Birmingham, AL. I'm trying to finish and publish my third book. I am happy to hear suggestions of anyone I should follow!