I won a local radio station's "one-second music quiz" this morning!

IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK!!!

Glad Kimmel's back. Also glad about the money I'll save by not resubscribing.

Stephan Pastis - Pearls Before Swine strip. 😂

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Well, just saved some money by canceling Disney+, Hulu, and Marvel Unlimited.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

I cackled when I got the text.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of Americans flood the streets of DC for a “Free DC” rally against the corrupt Trump regime (Video: @dominicgwinn.com)

Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.

New Stephen King horror just dropped.

I am at the "I know what song plays over the end credits of the movie version" stage of writing this novel.

If you haven't listened to it, by Crom, you must!

Not me making pancakes while listening to Bel Biv DeVoe ... #nevertrustabigbuttandasmile

Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!

Drop someone SEXY.

"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one

Good for them. Stand up and push back, especially if you’re being pushed out.

The self-checkout at this Harris Teeter is where time and competence go to die

Vance is that jackass a lot of us met in college who was 19, read Ayn Rand and the cliff notes of Sun Tao and talked a lot about being a "realist" in his sophomore poli sci seminar.

Writing drafts in longhand helps me focus. Typing it up, however ...

Officially college parents. Yikes.

This is how I flirt.

We were cleaning out an old filing cabinet at work and found some VHS tapes. Among them was this. I snagged it.

I've been a Donna Troy fan for a very long time (despite what you may have read in old lettercolumns). This annual was phenomenal and got me choked up. Thank you, @philjimeneznyc.bsky.social

Hey, it's more of my shitty poetry!

I just paid off my student loans.

Mowed the lawn in this humidity.

Wishing Brenda and Eddie a very happy 50th "anniversary". popcultureaffidavit.com/2025/07/29/s...

Lit for Queer Liberation auction starts today!!!! You can win a signed, personalized Carrigan's Christmasland set! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Cliff Chiang

PBS Passport has a treasure trove of contemporary + vintage PBS programs. Classic MASTERPIECE shows like RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY and JEWEL IN THE CROWN. NATURE and NOVA episodes going back to the ‘80s. 40 years of Ken Burns docs, FINDING YOUR ROOTS, so much. All for $5/month donation. Support #PBS!

Creating an imprint solely for male authors will not magically get men reading literary fiction again. You're locking the barn door after the horse is long gone. Your enemy is not women; your enemy is decades of educational decline and the profound cultural dominance of visual media.

So yes, I am the type of dork who takes pictures of his friend's books when he spots them in his local B&N. @blumagaincurios.bsky.social

Love how the Marvel section at Universal Orlando is selling comics.

I'm always amuses by people who watch Fox News on a flight. Youcan't go without for two hours?

The Go-go’s release their debut LP “Beauty and the Beat” today in 1981 — to this day, the only #1 Billboard album by an all-female band who wrote their own material & played their own instruments. “I remember saying, 'Wow, if we sell 150,000 copies,” said Belinda Carlisle, “that would be so cool.’”

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

The dive into 30 years' worth of writing notebooks continues. In this one, we have unpublished novels, Inane Crap, and more attempts at poetry.

Left hanging on my front door. Chuckling like Butt-head.

“You May Be Right,” “Allentown,” “Tell Her About It”… all of these are found on the compilation album Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2, which came out 40 years ago. Join @popaff.bsky.social for a look at the Piano Man’s music throughout the decade of the 80's. twotruefreaks.com/podcast/pop-...

New episode up! Strictly Eighties Joel. popcultureaffidavit.com/2025/06/23/p...

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Quote post with the Batman comic(s) that was released the month you turned 10! I'm cracking up at the fact that someone slabbed that "Batman Classic" book.

More writing notebooks! More shitty poetry! And one poem that flirts with decency ...