Hey read this. It’s got an epic workplace judo/karate fight in it. www.nickgregorio.com/2025/06/12/e...

The Mortal Kombat theme song is the single greatest musical composition of all time. Suck on THAT, Mozart.

Two old people, on separate occasions, have stopped me in my tracks today to tell me there’s a new pope. Is there something about my face that suggests I had a rooting interest in the matter? Do I look like a pope guy? What does a pope guy even look like? Do pope guys look like me?!

I think my favorite part of all of this is when people go, I didn’t think they’d come FOR ME. My brother in Christ, they were always going to come for all of us. You just chose to believe you’d be considered exempt.

I’m flying to Los Angle-leeze today to try to make friends and sell some of these at #AWP25. Anyone want to drink beers and read stories with me?? I’m also showing off a bit because the world is a cesspool but my soul is not and little joys need to be big joys so I hope you don’t mind.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you had the chance to fistfight your ailment before it had a chance to get you sick

The worst and most obnoxious movie take is IF IT’S SO GOOD WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF IT like who the eff are you, guy?

The toughest dudes at the hardcore show are drinking nothing but water trust me

Bill S. Preston, Esq. out here being an absolute hero. @alexwinter.com

Is it weird that Alien has been my comfort movie for like the last year?

Our robotics team brought out a new shirt design and when I asked to buy one the coach asked what size I take and when I said large he was like really and I was like YEAH I LIKE THEM A LITTLE SNUG OKAY AARON CRIPES

A coworker just told me she was in kindergarten during the first season of American Idol. I responded with my entire body crackling as I left her office.

So I’m 6’3” with a typical 39 year-old white guy build for better or worse and when people call me Big Guy I know they’re using it as a term of endearment but I want to be like HEY THERE SHIT-FOR-BRAINS, or WHATS HAPPENIN CHINLESS, or HOWS IT GOIN DICKNOSE because who you calling Big Guy, CoriolANUS

I like when the Nazis are like all offended when they’re called Nazis but y’all’re Nazis so what’s the big deal because your favorite thing is to strictly define people anyways so go ahead and be defined, you Nazi scum.

Remember when liking Hitler lost you friends? Those were the days.

Like 15 or so years ago I read a review of Idiocracy in which the author posited the flick was a mean-spirited dig at poor people what a bad take legend that dingus was ammaright

Hey you AWPers! Come hang out with me and all these spectacularly talented folk in Los Angleleeze!

Bug Wars is a zany, gory, raucous good time and y’all should read it.

The first issue of Bronze Faces from @boom-studios.com rules. Read my review, buy the book immediately. You’ll be stoked on yourself for making such a terrific decision, I’ll tell ya what.

If Football Christ vaporizes a guy I’ll sprint up a mountain a stick a key into like 60 beers and chug until I freeze to death atop Everest.

Though Football Christ turns 28 today and that dude runs like he’s mad at the grass and could probably turn a guy into red mist if he ran into him full bore.

If the Eagles don’t win tonight I will absolutely collapse like a dying star except instead of a dying star I’ll just be a drunk sad guy being sad over the result of a kids’ game that could’ve made 2025 just a smidge less shit.

I think if I were given a shot to create a viable third party in this dumb country it’d be called the Nazi Crotch Kickin’ Party Party

I feel like I’m in my Nazi Crotch Kickin’ era and I’m pretty stoked on it tbh

I think we need a mutant dinosaur in a Jurassic Park movie as much as we need a 7th Jurassic Park movie which is to say we don’t but there’s Nazis about and the smallest joys need to be big joys and we can’t JUST get our jollies from Nazi punchin’ though Nazi punchin’ really is the bees knees

I reviewed the first issue of THE SEASONS from @imagecomics.bsky.social for @fanbasepress.bsky.social. Check it out pretty pretty please!

There are few things more humbling than a new passport photo.

He look my hair’s long

I think I just stumbled upon my kid’s cheat code. I just say “Don’t you DARE” before saying the thing I want him to do, and then he goes and does the exact thing I want him to do. What a goofbag!

Dreamt I was in a neighbor’s garage scrounging for punk rock stickers to put on my bass when a group of all-star punks strolled in for a roast of the Descendents’ Karl Alvarez and I was super put out I had to sit through that event before getting back to my sticker hunt.

Hey @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social how can I get AJ to read my book on the sideline? Need that AJ bump!

Oh hi! I wrote about the 5th issue of @jefflemire171.bsky.social fantastic Minor Arcana. Give this a read and then buy the book—it’s terrific!

My son calls Rice Krispies treats Kishpee Keats and it’s so sweet he got one for breakfast this morning and yesterday morning and also for dinner last night you get it

BAD NATURE by Ariel Courage This is unputdownable. So funny, so snarlingly mean-spirited, so sad, so death-pondery, and so ultimately sweet and lovely. I wish I could read it again for the first time. Bad Nature rules. Read it if you dig reading about death, decay, and sadness but in a fun way.

Oh hi I reviewed the first issue of a new Jim Henson anthology comic series for @fanbasepress.bsky.social you should totally read it immediately because what else have you got going on at the moment anyways?

‘Jim Henson Presents #1’ (@boom-studios.com): Comic Book Review by Fanbase Press Guest Contributor @misternickwriter.bsky.social

Normalize reading books on the job. @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social

My favorite’s how they use people’s lives and the wellbeing of an entire city populace as bargaining chips hey listen to this one Charelle Parker Mark Squilla and the rest of the unscrupulous shills in City Council walk into a South Philly bar ouch get it what a buncha dorks go screw you dorks

Sometimes I’m like aw damn the Sunday Scaries but then I’m like the heatdeath of the universe is inevitable in only like a couple billion years and none of this will have mattered anyways so that’s where I’m at

HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel I’ve never read a novel like this. It’s epic and intimate but takes place in two days and across centuries. It’s detached and factual like something you’d read in the sports section, then tears into the blood and gore that makes women an infinite universal truth.

Oh! Forgot to post this one! CONCERNING THE FUTURE OF SOULS by Joy Williams Joy Williams is great. Most of this is too. Some of it is baffling but still lovely. Some of it left me befuddled and feeling a little like a big dummy. Still, dug pretty hard. #MisterNickReads2025

I have crazy anxiety while choosing which book I should read next and I know that sounds like a weird mental health buzzword humblebrag sort of thing but I’ve literally had two scotches to help myself to stop thinking about it so there oh god there I go thinking about it again

LAPVONA by Ottessa Moshfegh Holy jeez. Brutal, disgusting, razor sharp, and excellent. When I say, “Not for everyone,” I mean, “If you don’t dig delicious, hilarious nihilism in your anti-church, anti-government, anti-humanity novels, stay the eff away.” #MisterNickReads2025

Hey look at this shelf I just polished off aren’t I the coolest

I still haven’t seen the Lost finale, you guys. Could you please go ahead and kindly shut your yaps about it?!

She’s just the best there is. That’s it. That’s the review.

The best thing about dog barf is it’s always bright yellow and it’s always on the white carpet at four in the morning

This is righteous and I cannot effin wait

Oh man, this is awesome. Air and Cairo are two all time favorites of mine and I cannot WAIT for this one.