i don’t like the romanization of mandarin, but that’s just my pinyin

i grabbed a bunch of magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, and other found art objects because there was no way i was gonna pay for collage

i came up with a general theory on reefs, and there are many coral-laries

well i had to see both dinosaur jr and jesus & mary chain at the total bummer fest, they really got me

hey authors, yeah these ai emails are super insidious and annoying, but y’know, they write better loglines than me “For readers who love crime fiction with a beating heart, with social conscience baked into the bones of the mystery, The Dead Can't Make a Living feels like essential reading.”

i really enjoy cliffs. no bluff

los angeles, i have three book events this week: monday and tuesday with the amazing martin wong @ beverly hills public library and la county library rosemead, and friday with jeff schroeder @giantrobotstore.bsky.social

i’m coming to the bay area may 7 for my new book, the dead can’t make a living, and you should be there to see my conversation with the awesome v vale! ggpbooks.com/event/2026-0...

i should have known better than to ask my fluid-mechanics professor to do me a solid

come through! nothing else is happening in nyc !

tuesday nite, new york !

i’m terrible at drinking, somebody please try this for me!

surely, this is the best way to cope with the now

i tried to keep up with the dairy tour but i lost my whey

don’t get into a stairing contest with mc escher

i wanted to revive the woolly mammoth after finding a frozen specimen, but my plans weren’t well thawed out

nyc come on out to the party for my new book “the dead can’t make a living” april 10! food! prizes! ok, prizes, but food! yuandmebooks.com/products/lau...

i thought i was the best at distilling sugarcane but now i see rum for improvement

my tea business failed because the costs were too steep

ancient indo-europeans took racing seriously, and some of the contests were hittite finishes

i’m really anticipating this book about bowling. the wait has me on pins

i sometimes need a tool to help me pour, funnely enough

i’ve always been indifferent to suckerfish, remora less

if a cantaloupe is too heavy to lift, use a cantilever

what dessert do trolls like? lair cake

i’ll tell you my cow joke later, i’m not in the mooooood now

so many sham papers were presented at the geology summit, but i never mentioned it to the press. i never talk schist

if i milked cows all day, i’d totally write entries about it in my dairy

why are chickens terrible pitchers? they tend to balk

i haven’t mentioned hungarian composers yet, but it was next on my liszt

i’m so bad at listening, i can’t even follow the heard

if you master geology, you might get a macarthur igneous grant

i was going to write a paper that did some finger pointing, but thumbthing else came up

some people despise mountain goats, but ibex to differ

i was in a band with astronomers but we broke up because the singer wanted to go solar

if you trade milk futures, you’re only quarting disaster

george takei says celebrate ghost month with ghost month! photo by @ghwatanabe.bsky.social

if i created a series of videos about forest trails, i’d ask viewers to lichen subscribe

i was looking over an ancient manuscript when i found a page was missing. surely it was the work of my nemesis, the creature from the black lacuna

did you hear about the potter who went into investing? she made a kiln in the market

thin pancakes are really crepey

i was so shocked when the stationery store moved

some people like to get snarky about ancient burial practices. i myself can do without the sarcophagus remarks

i had to end my project on walruses, elephants, and narwhals because i couldn’t multitusk

the gathering had expected short and meaningful remarks from me, but i showed them no pithy

i didn’t like bricklaying at first, but i discovered there was mortar love

i’ve been listening to so many audio recordings of the sounds schools of fish make, and at such a loud volume, i think it’s starting to affect my herring

i was talking a lot about getting things custom-made, but i bespoke too soon

i asked my baseball coach for more batting practice, but she was all cagey about it

i spent a lot of money to set up my laundromat but in the end it was a wash