The Emerald Divide is the latest novel from my friend and colleague Jonathon Kelley. It just came out, and it became the top financial thriller in both the UK and Australia on Amazon a couple days ago! It’s available on Kindle and in paperback and hardback. #jonathonkelley #robertdart #emeralddivide

A Cadaver Christmas is a wonderful, hilarious, and memorable holiday film!

Congrats to whoever had “Rain” on their Wisconsin Holidays 2025 bingo card.

There are going to be a lot of folks all alone for the holidays. And maybe they seem like they’re ok. Or maybe they seem like they prefer it that way. Or maybe they seem like they have plans with others, but they’re evasive or vague about that. Reach out. Be there for them. Don’t just ask. Be there.

I thought these were a super-cool holiday ornament idea till my wife told me you’re supposed to decorate them.

Rob Reiner changed my life. This Is Spinal Tap, and his alter-ego Marty DiBergi, in itself remains one of my favorite movies, like top 10, and has been a constant inspiration. His jovial personality and wit are something Hollywood and the world need more of, now more than ever. R.I.P. to a legend.

A song for our times, now more than ever. #sagefrancis

So we can expect another trumped-up executive order, this one calling for the end of Title II? Pardon my egregious and clearly meretricious eloquence, but fuck (and I realize I’m being redundant here) this assclown narcissist and his wah-wah me-me-me perspective.

Me: Do you feel my heart beating? Do you understand? Am I only dreaming? Is this burning an eternal flame? My doctor: Nope

Didn’t South Park predict this?

Goddamn, I miss Dolores O’Riordan. #doloresoriordan #thecranberries

A few times a year, I listen to an album that I’ve not heard one note of, end to end, sans interruption or distractions. (No. Phone.) I read only liner notes/lyrics and do nothing else except sit and listen. Tonight, it’s the new album, Raspberry Moon, from a band I’m not familiar with, Hotline TNT.

It’s no secret that I prefer the Janet oeuvre to the Michael oeuvre.

White House: The attack was absolutely, 100%, totally, for sure lawful, without a doubt. But in case it wasn’t, we so didn’t do that shit.

I’m on a modernist kick with my leisure reading, now on The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, which I’ve not read since college. Having just finished Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, my current kick is British female authors focused on themes of women’s roles and soldiers’ PTSD post-World War I.

“Sometimes the facts can make the truth disappear.”

R.I.P. Tom Stoppard. His plays and screenplays have been a personal inspiration since I was in college. In particular, I love the play, screenplay, and movie (which he also directed) of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

(Oh) Dear GOP, Here are some Arabic numerals that you may recognize: 1, 2, 3, 47, 100, 435, 2026. #ohdeargop

There’s a joy I’ve never outgrown of being awake for long hours in the middle of the night, preferring to live life consciously rather than get a good, sensible night of sleep.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Rush The Rainmakers Ani DiFranco Claudio Simonetti and Goblin Primus

Let’s give First Blood its due.

The wedding scene in Alligator might be the greatest scene in American cinematic history*. Discuss. * - No, not really. That designation goes to the Walken/Hopper scene in True Romance.

I call this photo “Class Is in Session the Week of Thanksgiving.”

Couldn’t say it any better myself. R.I.P. Udo Kier.

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is urging Americans to address any medication and vitamin supplement needs by taking Trioxin 245.

1925 is one of my favorite years for literature. So many amazing works, and I’ve read and reread a lot of them. Plus, I’ve read at least a few Virginia Woolf novels, and loved them. Yet somehow, I’ve never read Mrs. Dalloway … until now.

Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Tonight’s chill formula.

Prelim grading the latest batches of student papers while listening to the John Carpenter Anthology. What could possibly go wrong.

Now watching one of my all-time favorite action movies …

Hell yeah, I’m watching Sudden Death! #vandamme

With Gremlins 3 in development, wonder whether the studio’ll bring in Key & Peele to brainstorm story ideas.

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if (1/2)

And it’s snowing. First of the season.

Tonight, watching Tugg Speedman, Jeff Portnoy, and Kirk Lazarus do their thing. ❤️🤘🏼

I can see the headlines tomorrow: “GOP gets a preview of just how fucking fucked they’re going to be at the mid-terms.”

We are fighting back. One day at a time. One race at a time. Never give up.

AP calls Mamdani the winner for NYC!❤️

Watching election results roll in from around our country, and seeing multiple glimmers of hope for us.

12 minutes left. Down by 15. 4th and 17. Andy: Let’s go.

I’ve been looking at my watch a lot today, really admiring it so that it knows how much I appreciate it just the way it Is. #dst

“Do not let those numbers drive you crazy. Use an eraser. Get rid of all of them.” - Rocky Balboa

For only the second (perhaps third) time in some two decades of participating, this year, I’ve completed the 31DoH Challenge.

The new Brandi Carlile is an all-new sound for her, and it’s a fist-pumping, guitar-rocking anthem for our times. Mind fucking blown. #brandicarlile

I’m a total mark, but I just ordered this. #freddekker #nightofthecreeps

Tonight, for the second time this year — and in my life — a complete stranger walked up to me In a public establishment to tell me that I look “exactly like Shawn Michaels.” At least this time I can understand the confusion because I was sitting down. At a bar.

A new big-screen adaptation of A Christmas Carol? Cool. Directed by Ti West? Oh, hell yeah! Starring Johnny Depp? Goddamnit.