I'm not some highly paid pundit, nor a historian, and hell, I only have a communications degree from a state universtiy, but I have to think that the thing that is most troubling for the rest of the world is not the president — but that neither our Congress nor our SCOTUS are stopping him.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence "I said to Wolfe, 'The exercise will do you good.'" (Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout)

People want to watch things at the holidays! Make Christmas specials like the Brits do!

Today's small life improvement: canceling Hulu, Disney+, and Apple+ because I have so many DVDs I want to watch.

I am watching Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) as escapism. Watson has just told a story about a cross-eyed pigeon that flew in circles. Good old Watson.

What is in that bread?!?

2018: "staffers regularly say things like “We’re not at 25th Amendment level yet.” Trump is threatening to start a war with Denmark to colonize Greenland because an independent committee in Norway didn't give him a trophy Surely we're at 25th Amendment level now

The world is making me better understand living on "weak scotch and sodas" and champagne. I know I sometimes want to start the day with an eye opener, as we used to call them. (Not scotch though. Something with brandy, cause Dr. John Watson taught me that was medicinal.)

I found a copy of Holmes for the Holidays, which I thought I'd read when it was still January. amzn.to/4sQOdG4 (#sponlink)

As a foodie, I am thrilled to be living today, when I can eat around the world. Late breakfast was leftover japchae with beef bulgogi. Lunch was butter chicken with naan. Dinner is a loaded baked potato and salad.

I LOVED The Seven Dials Mystery. So gorgeous, and I want to see Bundle and Battle solve more 20s crimes! Hear that, @netflix.com ?

My new version of my fanfic pins are here! I updated the look. It now features screen printed text and also I added NEW tags! You can get 2 for $20 ♥️ Thank you for any shares! www.seateas.store

Nice work!!!

It is very hard to be excited about planning a convention in April when so many terrible things are happening that the future itself seems in doubt. But I'm doing my best.

I never heard the Grateful Dead as a kid, I just read about it in books and saw them referenced in comics and I basically understood the music to be like. insane experimental cosmic rock and it was very funny to hear them as an adult and its like "what if a southern rock band just kept playing"

We are at the “Minnesotans are spray painting their broiler pans for body armor” stage of the fight

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

Y'all, the Today Show is covering the "Heated Rivalry" "hype", calling it a "steamy yet sweet series" and talking about how it's "revealing the popularity of gay male romance stories among women." (They show the book covers but do not say the author's name, Rachel Reid.)

We just met.

Wishing all ICE officers a very happy Napoleon's Retreat From Russia

I liked this one! They go to London. comicsworthreading.com/2025/01/31/c...

My brain hurts so much watching the news cover Americans being attacked in Minneapolis for protesting, while Trump rants and raves about how bad Iran is for ... attacking protestors.

Y'all I love this show so much! So I wrote about it.

That was nice. Got bumped from a connecting flight to a direct, which means I will now have four extra hours in NYC. Wonder what I should do there this afternoon? (Other than nap. 3 am wakeup for early flights is not getting any easier.)

Is this the pinnacle of celebrity fascination replacing journalism? Instead of "hey the President is breaking all kinds of laws" it's "other famous people there too!"

Parallel thinking, I did something similar with what is probably the most successful shitpost ever in 2022. Real shame I never made a Venmo, Cash App, of KoFi account so I could've made some money off it. Oh well. Thought about doing an updated version in 2024 where Daffy crashes into Paramount.

It's looking like a really good time to go spend the better part of a week with people I only see a few times a year and get off the internet for a while.

お誕生日おめでとう🥳🎈

The Rats of Khan. Watercolor 5”x7”. #Ratville 2018

Really important story -- another major distributor went under.

I'm so looking forward to when there's a good DVD collection of the rediscovered Wontner films.

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

A shitpost so great Billy Joel actually heard about it

💚 Fire & Ice 🩵

Professor Challenger in the comics. From The Adventures of Lumen N. #4, out Dec 17 from Dark Horse. The white-bearded man is Nemo with his granddaughter Lumen. Sadly, the series has concluded with this issue. Written by James Robinson, art by Phil Hester, Marc Deering, and Bill Crabtree.

More than today. I have to keep telling myself today is not Sunday.

Billionaire influencer. I'm all for that. Also escapist reading, in case you hadn't guessed.

Thought I’d learn to sew in the new year. Step one:

Went from watching The Ellery Queen series, with Jim Hutton, to the Nero Wolfe series, with his son Timothy. Love the period design! And Maury Chaykin is excellent.

New post: Drops of God: Mariage Volume 11 from @kodansha.us comicsworthreading.com/2026/01/02/d...

Let's make a plan to hang out sometime 📝🩷

Starting up Wicked: For Good to show my mom. If Elphaba is green and fighting against people who are using yellow to commit abuse, does that make her a Green Lantern? Or does her inherent anti-establishment vibe prevent that? Discuss.

This is the year of putting things away. I'm telling myself: Don't just move it to another pile, make the time to read or watch it (or decide you don't want to), then review or gif it or log it or whatever, and store (or dispose of) it appropriately.

It's not getting better. Build your own media server. Buy physical media. They had their chance and they blew it.

Minis not big enough to capture the magic of this con? I thought so too. New for 2026, our printable promotional flyer!

Great rundown. Basically, people who think they own a property are going to do whatever they can to scare off others. And there are some details involving long-running characters that have to be navigated.

Final reading count for 2025: 512 books. Let's see what happens in 2026!