Beautiful.

I'm not ready for seasonal peppermint items, but I did just brew my first pot of Trader Joe's Wintry Blend of the season, and it is delicious (even though it's not winter yet).

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Removing the artist from art is to render it into something else entirely, something less than it could have been. I genuinely believe the way to fight generative AI is a Renaissance of the weird, personal and specific. We love art BECAUSE it connects us to a real person’s interior life.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Great news! LIGHTHOUSE is a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social Gold Standard Selection! #goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard #juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #jlgselection

So I wrote a thing about Amazon's Wheel of Time for Uncanny, and you can read it now for free here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/port... #WotShow #WheelOfTime

Yay! Paperbacks of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL have started to become available for pre-order. Barnes & Noble for now, but we’ll get there. Here’s all the pre-order links so far but more are coming! www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

So... Here's a thing. I enabled "expanded distribution" on Amazon, which means you don't HAVE to order through Amazon. Here's a link to buy the paperback of "Reliably Narrated Armageddon and Other Stories on @bookshop.org

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

If you subscribe to BCS, you get to read my crow story TODAY!

This person took this when they called the race

“So hear me President Trump when I say this. To get to any of us you will have to get through all of us!“ This is the ultimate triumph of hope over fear. Of love over hate Of community over oligarchy We stand strong together

California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat. A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.

BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.

And MSNBC already called Prop 50 as a YES.

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

magnificent

And, this feels so good to write and live: The New York Times calls the New York City mayor's race for Zohran Mamdani.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

NBC CALLS IT FOR MAMDANI

I am so happy.

LOCAL RACES MATTER GO VOTE

Song of Spores is launching TODAY, read the many fun quotes from the book in this thread and enjoy! The preorders link is already down, you can buy here - From publisher: www.brokeneyebooks.com/catalog/p/so... Amzn US: amzn.to/3LkmdJC Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate links)

Vote vote vote! (Here in LA, I have already voted for Prop 50.)

Lovely Mamdani campaign song by Stew Stewart. youtu.be/b0qlC6tpBCQ?...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

My new book is coming TOMORROW! I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) - www.patreon.com/posts/142750...

I have sadly de-Ghoulfinkled until next October.

I'm working at shifting use of these harmful placeholder words out. There are always better words and expressions to use. Substitutions I really like: Wild <-- I use this a lot! Ridiculous Tacky Unseemly Unsuitable

My top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Screaming Lord Sutch (20), Lily Allen (17), Liquor Giants (16).

Lovely Mamdani campaign song by Stew Stewart. youtu.be/b0qlC6tpBCQ?...

I might have gone a little overboard with the Criterion flash sale.

The extra hour is nice, but I feel discombobulated from the time change. (Pretty much the only time I use the word discombobulated is when the time changes.)

WHAT

TODAY ONLY! Cheddar Luck Next Time, my cheesy cozy mystery w/ an autistic lead, is on sale for $.99/£.99! Please, please spread the word! US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck... Also at B&N & Apple!

From Patti Smith's forthcoming book!

Damn, that was great. The relationship between the partners is so well done. #horrorwatch

"Random events, chance, and luck." Yep. #horrorwatch

"The past fucking sucks, man!" #horrorwatch

Another pineal gland movie! #horrorwatch

It may be November, but I have "She's Fallen in Love With the Monster Man" stuck in my head, and I haven't stopped being Gwynne Ghoulfinkle yet.

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited. “More houses! More candy!” Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim): “Can I eat the moon!?” Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

Duane Jones in “Night of the Living Dead” #TCMParty #TheNightOfTheLivingDead #DuaneJones #horror

And the zombies are a-dancin' And the skeletons prancin'

Vegetarian Vampires by Mexican painter Remedios Varo. #Halloween 🦇

For Halloween, here's my poem inspired by "Carnival of Souls." throughthegate.net/12/

If you haven’t gotten a paperback of The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social or Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @omgjulia.bsky.social, NOW is the time. And proceeds are going to a good cause.