Never has punctuation stopped me dead in my reading tracks before, but this has to be the most eccentric use of a colon and two em dashes I've ever come across in a single sentence. Is this even legal? (cc @bcdreyer.social )

SF -- come by @booksinc.bsky.social in Laurel Village this evening for a conversation between me and author Jan Flynn. We'll be discussing her wonderful debut Griffin Speaker. If you like mythical creatures, underdogs, or worldbuilding adventures, this is a gem! www.booksinc.com/pages/events...

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap The Slipnutz! Absolutely insane commitment to the bit youtu.be/j5QN4S8Gg50?...

Remains of the Day Lathe of Heaven Moby Dick

The Jokers - All Wrong [Tehran, Iran, Heavy Psych Blues] (1972) Power trio with Vaheed on vocals + guitar, Comran on bass and Afshin on drums. Oriental answer on Cream and MC5. https://redd.it/188exyx https://youtu.be/NDy1POltYIM

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— The Wire Haunting of Hill House Watchmen Peep Show The Colbert Report Pete & Pete Avatar GI Joe (1980s) Downton Abbey Whose Line is it Anyway Monty Python's Flying Circus Dark Cheers Andor Odd Squad

Mama left the nest for a minute and I checked, and there's a little baby bird in there!

Lots of things suck right now, but these two mourning doves are taking care of an egg, and each other, under the eaves of our house right now, and they're doing amazing

Holy shit @qotsa-official.bsky.social live set on KEXP right now is absolute 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just majestic

Lots of things suck right now, but these two mourning doves are taking care of an egg, and each other, under the eaves of our house right now, and they're doing amazing

I am so so tempted to suggest my own book, but I'm not gonna do it. I am not old.reddit.com/r/suggestmea...

I watched every second of this. It was perfect.

This is really cool.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Who's in the Netflix Haunting of Hill House fan club? I just finished the series last night and hot damn. What excellent storytelling by @mikeflanaganfilm.com and everyone else involved. Just incredible. Now I want to watch it again.

Need everyone to appreciate this picture @ketchiklein.bsky.social sent me

The Spirit from February 22, 1948. Art by Will Eisner & Jerry Grandenetti, with letters by Abe Kanegson.

"Malaria" comes from Italian "mala aria," meaning "bad air." It was believed that bad air caused the disease, not mosquitoes. #etymology

What movie moment made you exclaim, "This is cinema" Crowded movie theater in New Delhi, no subtitles, thirty minutes in and this BANGER drops. Speechless youtu.be/8jff2wz3Hpk?...

Los Angeles! I will be coming to the LAPL for a public event in March! Come say hi! www.lapl.org/whats-on/eve...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Leon Redbone Ken Nordine Tom Waits Huun Huur Tu Ali Farka Toure

Hard to imagine a song that hits much closer to the center of the Venn diagram of my musical tastes.

I think it's weird that every news outlet is calling him "former" and "deposed," when neither of those things happened. Like, everyone has just accepted that a country can unilaterally arrest a different nation's leader, and this just triggers a normal process of succession.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Just saying there is recent precedent (Illinoise) for a beloved indie singer-songwriter with a deep catalog (Sufjan Stevens) making the leap onto Broadway, so it could happen?

It has come to my attention that the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album contains a Lin-Manuel Miranda feature, which means we are as close as we've ever been to The Best Ever Death Metal Band on Broadway www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqMW...

Late to share this, but BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES made Kirkus Reviews' best middle grade of the year list! I'm very proud of this book, and so grateful to be recognized among some frankly intimidating company.

I laughed

This is the best Christmas song I know. Old, weird, wintry, purportedly Christian but also full of references to planets and stars, and lyrics whose meanings have been lost to time youtu.be/cjht2xQripM?...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild Gray fox Gray whale Sea otter Harbor porpoise Bald eagle

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

Tied with "horaltic" for best bird-related word

I Saw the TV Glow is one of the most haunting and haunted movies I've ever seen. This series sounds bananas.

How have I never seen this painting before?

So I'm writing at a cafe in an unfamiliar city, and this little kid, maybe 9 or 10, came up to me with a pen and a stack of post-it notes and asked me if I wanted his autograph, and so of course I said that yes, I absolutely did. This is what he gave me

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure. Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing. 3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes. You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Kids had an interesting choice for our next bedtime read aloud, but I'm always game for a challenge. It only took until "hval" before they realized they'd made a mistake.

Happy Winsor McCay's birthday!

What you get when you #copyedit me: fractional stets and invented punctuation

This thread was inspiring. I've never run anything more ambitious than short creative workshops for middle school kids, but even those can be electric. We're wired to be creative. Too often I think that circuitry gets bypassed by everyday life. But it's still there.

'Country House at Negishi' - Takahashi Hiroaki, ca. 1936. #JapaneseArt

LEO NARD BERN STEIN

Hand-painted celestial escape in the Méliès fantasy THE KINGDOM OF THE FAIRIES. The film was available as an entire presentation or as separate sequences. Fairy extravaganzas were big business on the stage but the movies made them available to all.

I prefer to think of it as "being earnest" but it's probably cringe to say that.

Weapons is a helluva good time. The atmosphere is relentlessly creepy, the acting is excellent, the story is expertly told. Unsettling, funny, gross, and hugely satisfying. Reminded me of seeing Misery on the big screen.

Just here to say The Limey is a really really good movie and Terence Stamp was perfect in it. Lots of moments that have stayed with me from this film but this one is the one I think about most often youtu.be/tJLdaKUBGzo?...

One of the loveliest things anyone's ever said about my books, and a more perfect description of the thing I try to do with stories than any I would have come up with. 🙏 🙏 🙏

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

Incredible. Obscenity-free, absolutely devastating, and just at a first, non-Romanian-speaking effort, it rolls smoothly off the tongue.