Back on my library shit again. Finishing up the final details on a new major project launching tomorrow. Excited. Nervous. Hopeful. If it goes the way I hope, it’s a lot more work for me. But that’s par for the course. More work! More work!

Don’t skip! Post you in another country.

Heads up: the new Ann Patchett novel is excitingly terrific.

WOKE II IS HERE

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This is how we brought the mullet back.

Good morning and happy Ann Patchett Day to those who celebrate! Up earlier than I should be to get some work done before a big day at the office. In keeping with the spirit of the new Patchett, let’s do art!

PS I have 2 copies of this, ready to send to some lucky readers. $50 plus shipping, and it’s yours!

I saw an author today on Instagram, complaining that readers who use libraries are the worst because they’re grifting off of authors that could be making money. I hate that author.

The new Overlook Connection Stephen King Annual is out! I have two essays in it!! Hooray!!

Weaning myself off of Starbucks slowly but surely, and rediscovering my love of libraries in the process. Worry not: the coffee I have at home and at work is identical to what I have at Starbucks. It’s just a lot cheaper and probably better for me. I’m doing art!

Monday evening at the Astro Wash. Favoring my knee but keeping it moving so it doesn’t stiffen up and hurt more. It takes longer to walk here than bike, but I don’t think I’m quite ready to pedal just yet.

Look is it wrong to do chest day and skip leg day because your knee is still achy and you’re listening to a crazy intense lost Springsteen album and you’ve got a lot going on but you’re trying to meet the moment with positivity and optimism even though it’s so difficult? Also: a Red Bull.

This pride, I’d like to bring in a couple of different sentiments that I’ve seen on stickers around the city. Two mindsets can be true at the same time. Now let’s go celebrate those rights!

You know when you wake up at 4:30 and you can’t get back to sleep and then you decide to start writing? Here I am with the same timeline dilemmas, but things are smoothing out a little bit. Non-fiction is difficult but it’s worth it.

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Writing a nonfiction book is so insane because you have to get all of the facts right and I like to verify everything with at least two sources. Right now I don’t know if something happened in 1976 or 1977 and it has been such a bitch to figure it out. Yet I persist!

The light shining in makes me look like a terminator. This picture is the most me I can be.

“I regret to inform you,” I told my husband whilst watching Torn Curtain, “that I will be making a fourth drink.” But first: one of the most intense scenes in any Hitchcock movie ever. I needed this 44 Mai Tai after that.

My Mai Tai cutting board always looks like a crime scene when I’m done with my Luxardos.

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Back home. The rest of the day is all about resting my leg, doing some writing, and opening the Sea Stories Lounge for a Hitchcock tiki night. I have duck jammies.

Got an uber. I explained that we had two stops - Shawn had to stop in and grab something, and then we were headed to the cheese shop. Shawn got out and the guy started racing to the second location even though I kept saying stop where are you going stop stop STOP STOP THE CAR LET ME OFF HERE. Jesus.

"The album was produced by Grammy-winning pianist and producer Matt Rollings, who assembled a group of established roots and bluegrass musicians for the project." Trying to play on our sympathies when this man has all the resources and ability to work with real people is abhorrent.

Everyone’s tried to get me into Dungeon Crawler Carl. Gave up four pages in. It’s extremely hard for me to root for a protagonist who not only smokes, but makes it part of his personality. Thus is why I can’t get into early Michael Connelly books.

@cmolanphy.bsky.social is this the new structure of Hit Parade? Long deep history, followed by a Bridge-sized chart history episode two weeks later? Very into this. You get a deep dive and then chart nerdery. PS I know you can’t mention ZZ Top every episode, but thanks for the bits here. Great job!!

I either pushed it too hard on the bike or I forgot about being 50 and slept slightly weird. Either way I pulled something in my knee, so I’m just waiting for it to stop throbbing. Lidocaine patch, ibuprofen, and icing. What a fun Friday night.

It’s podcast time.

It’s the season finale of my show! Everyone should go and listen to it right now!

Today, after a whole week of waking up at 5:00 AM for freelance intensity, today the alarm went off and I shut it and woke up at 8. RESTED FEELS GOOD! It’s Bowling Shirt Day! It’s Cedar Point Mug Day!! IT’S FRIDAY!!! #partyandpartyandyeah

I know this isn’t remotely the most important thing happening, but pushback at all levels is how things get better.

Morris Day and what’s left of Milli Vanilli said they were never contacted, the Commodores, Young MC , and Martina McBride all said they didn’t know it was a Trump event and the paperwork was misleading - all dropped out. LOL

Day one of entirely eschewing the coffee shop in order to: 1. be more frugal 2. be more healthy 3. probably a moral element I don’t feel like preaching about. Plus: LIBRARY! I love library!

Who okayed arm day for Thursday‽ is this even legal?

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It’s been interesting to watch this happen and then watch them get blocked immediately. We’re tired. We block people for minor shit over here.

Treadmill morning, getting lost in 80s sellout songs I love. Could I BE more knee-deep in the hoopla?

Up early for fun and frivolity! Well, art and writing. Biggish day ahead and I’m excited. Following the season finale of my podcast, work on it only amplifies. Let’s get this done!

Look at the Wusong Wednesday crew looking great!!! Full escape in the middle of Cambridge! I may have a Zombie and it may be my last drink!

Hahahahaha generative AI prompters fuck goats

It’s time.

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Me in my company's AI meeting: "I think it's abhorrent and that we should never use it." Everyone: did the Hawaiian shirt guy just use the word "abhorrent?"

“You sir, are doing great. A+! I don’t say that often!” I won dentistry again!

Reading the Song of Achilles, and while I know Patroclus and Achilles are the main characters, this new character Chiron is really the centaur of attention.

This feels like the bouncy house discourse in reverse. Whyfor, we ask, is a video game company known for making games that often skew younger, making games that skew younger. Why do children, who should be sweeping chimneys and mining coal, deserve games? The answer is: they do not.

Up and raring to go this gray Wednesday morning. Lots of work between now and tiki time, and I’ve got to jam-pack it all in. Art this morning, which remains thrilling. Here we go!

I just always find this funny. I wish I knew why. It’s a dumb thing to be amused by.

Shoulder day? Boulder day! Let’s listen to “La Grange” and pump it up. Hashtag grindset mindset.

Kev and Shawn Tuesday dinner! He made the steaks, I made the mushrooms and parsnip purée. There are green beans around here somewhere too. Complicated meals with husbands!