On this day in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art was formally established with an act of the New York legislature. The papers of architect and founding museum trustee Richard Morris Hunt are held at the Library of Congress, and among them is his sketch of the Met's iconic Fifth Avenue entrance.

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

One of these frogs is a mid-2nd millennium BC Egyptian amulet made of carnelian. The other is a strawberry-flavoured chewy sweet. Which is which? 🏛️📷Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

There is a weird fuzzy gray lump on my neighbors' balcony. I'm pretty sure that this used to be two jack o'lanterns that are still there because 1. they are now way too gross for anyone to face trying to clean up and 2. they are a metaphor for 2025.

I set a goal on Duotrope to submit 4 stories a month. I'm doing pretty good with two already for April.

I wrote two historical mystery short stories that feature no murders. Submitted both of them to historical fiction magazines rather than mystery magazines. Feel pretty good about it! Making art helps to deal with the abyss.

If anyone knows of a good place to submit lighthearted historical mystery short stories with a girl sleuth and LGBTQ elements set in Spain around 1600, let me know. I have two now.

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Sitting down to type again. One of my cats is already circling, just waiting to get her cute lil' fuzzy mitts all over my keyboard and wreck it. Here she comes oh no

So let's say for the sake of argument that I have a little dum dum cat who is so cute and whom I love so much that I do not reliably prevent her from walking on my laptop keyboard when she comes looking for affection.

Yesterday, I wrote two short stories by hand with a fountain pen. Today, I endeavor to type both of them up and submit them. I also have one from about ten months ago that I never typed up. I even lost the manuscript for a long time.

I went to two different old, gorgeous libraries today in downtown Baltimore to write. I wrote two different short stories. I feel pretty good.

I'm going to a beautiful library tomorrow to write. I have 3 or 4 ideas for short stories. ✒️

One thing I did was watch a whole 30-minute video by @jessiegender.bsky.social about why John Lithgow sucks! It was very informative and lucidly argued. Check it out, y'all.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 09,1962

Am I still showing La nave de los monstruos to teens? I am still showing La nave de los monstruos to teens.

I bought a baguette about 3 hours ago then left it in the back of my hatchback and just went to get it and it's so nice and warm. I may have done an accidental life hack.

Just sitting here sending out some stories to publications. I fear that looking for publications and themed issues and anthologies and stuff has become a bit of a hobby that is related to, but not the same as, the actual writing.

Maybe tornadoes tomorrow? I fear my Midwestern mischief has gone too far.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Don Quixote on Horseback - 1902 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105338

Top Ten Horror Movies: Psycho (1960) Night of the Demon (1957) Cat People (1942) The Leopard Man (1943) Dracula (1931) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) They Live (1988) White Zombie (1935) Tesis (1996) Annihilation (2018)

Twist in the Studio of Velazquez https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21096

Paul Newman in Venice, 1963

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

@culturalgutter.bsky.social Mid-Atlantic Yetification Reporting Station checking in. For some hours last night, many residents in the region became semi-Yeti. However, as of 5 pm today all Mid-Atlantic residents are 0% Yeti. Suggesting we check on our brethren farther north.

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

Do curling matches last like 6 hours or have I entered some sort of time anomaly

Got a rejection yesterday. Sent out two more submissions yesterday, including the story that had just been rejected. Today, I wrote a new creative nonfiction piece and submitted that as well! Now, mutter paneer and cross-country skiing.

I will not be disrespected by you, Melville

Me watching curling: As far as I can tell, this game is about tied (?) Announcer: It's been Chinese dominance on the ice!

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV_Q...

Hopefully some people pledged a substantial amount per sack. OK I havent seen a football game in a long time but that seemed like a lot of sacks.

How many times can this man get dragged down into the dirt tonight

Until recently, only regicides suffered the cruel fate of death by field goal.

The fun part is over. Go Seahawks.

There was a commercial saying we're not allowed to describe the game??? I haven't watchwed football since the last time the Seahawks were in the Superbowl but surely we're allowed to describe the game and especially the halftime show? This isn't the SATs?

I love comics as a genre and this might be the best one I've ever seen

My Muppet Show host picks off the top of my head: Annie Murphy, Pedro Pascal, Danai Gurira, Tom Holland, Paul Giamatti, Lakeith Stanfield, Helen Mirren, Olivia Colman, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel Bloom, Zohran Mamdani

I have another story that I wrote out by hand, then never typed up before moving to Maryland. Then I lost the manuscript, then I found the manuscript, but then I still never typed it up. It's historical fiction but also a mystery. Which, a huge percentage of mysteries are historical. More than half?

I just completed my first-ever revise and resubmit! I am pleased because the feedback I got was very apt and full of good observations. Also because this story is a bit of an oddball I came up with in response to a prompt, with the result that it will have a hard time fitting many publications.

I was talking to one of my students a while ago (with the storm I haven't actually seen a student in a while) about white noise vs. brown noise vs. pink noise and how I didn't know the difference. I wondered why there was no green noise or blue noise.

In the middle of thinking up an idea for a VERY depressing story, suddenly my knuckles are strangely grazing against a feeling similar to joy. Also I kicked coffee and I'm lightly homicidal.

also this story contains the sentence "There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow," surely an early front-runner for sentence of the year

The mighty Snohomish.