On this day in 1910, Jack London published his short story “The Benefit of the Doubt” with The Saturday Evening Post. His revenge-fantasy story was the culmination of a months-long feud with a judge who had ruled against him regarding a man earlier bar fight.

Reading about the time Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s family’s country home in Concord, MA. Henry Thoreau came over and planted a garden of cabbage and beans for them. It’s where Hawthorne wrote Rappacini’s Daughter. This is an A24 script waiting to happen.

La pieta

First snow

Floyd Patterson with a quick joke in response to a hater

A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 c. 1871-1889 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Christy Martin is the only woman boxer to ever appear on a Sports Illustrated cover. She has never been on the cover of The Ring magazine, however. With the release of her biopic, now would be a great time to remedy this.

George Chuvalo training, 1965

Thrift store book haul

Seeing CHRISTY now, with all the trimmings. #boxing #boxingmovie

“Go fuck yourself.” — famously empathetic and civil Dick Cheney, on the Senate floor

Neighbor’s tree just going wild right now

I posted this yesterday, but today is the 10th anniversary of Amos Johnson’s passing. It’s a long thread but his story worth it.

Visiting boxers' graves in Ohio. #2 Amos Johnson Jr.

Really taken by the shadow and light of this photo, cropped by not edited, as it appeared in a 1960s newspaper. I’m curious: can you identify the fighter?

Last night I sat down and watched the documentary Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, chronicling the longstanding professional and personal relationship between the two men.

A May 1964 card in Cleveland was headlined by Joey Giardello, but promoters hired former champs to work the card: Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott served as referees while the Rockys -- Marciano and Graziano -- worked as seconds.

Top 5 Misfits Songs Last Caress Static Age We Are 138 Hybrid Moments London Dungeon

German fighter Willi Besmanoff socks Argentinian Alex Miteff, 1957

One of my favorite details: in this photo of Ali and Foreman in Kinshasa, you can see writers George Plimpton and Norman Mailer (with his mouth open) seated together, looks like second row.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Free boxing out of Montreal on Tubi and PlutoTV right now!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

As in all of Guillermo del Toro’s finest work, you’ll come away remembering the humanity hidden in the horrible; the beauty baked into the beastly.

I made these irregular ghost brownies. Haunted desserts, spectral pastry.

This essay on the “braided essay” and what it means to ask something of your readers dirt.fyi/article/2025...

One of my niche ethical stances is that I think that people should use Wikipedia and donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and that ChatGPT and its siblings are trash and so are the people who use them.

Caught that golden hour

One year ago

“Lots Plants Cheap”

Read her short story collection High Crime Area a few weeks back. Gothic, crime, horror — she’s all over it.

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

Visiting boxers' graves in Ohio. #1 Johnny Kilbane

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

"It’s a hideous story, really, its air of grotesque nightmare filtered through the language of an innocent girl who knows nothing else, nothing better." www.thebulwark.com/p/joyce-caro...

Thinking on the evolution of this Francis Bacon sketch. Joe Beckett splayed on the canvas and Georges Carpentier standing, a 1st rd Ko. Referee JT Hulls Jr is ducking between the ropes. The image was cropped for a magazine or book. Lastly, with Bacon’s dry paint alterations.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Thinking on the evolution of this Francis Bacon sketch. Joe Beckett splayed on the canvas and Georges Carpentier standing, a 1st rd Ko. Referee JT Hulls Jr is ducking between the ropes. The image was cropped for a magazine or book. Lastly, with Bacon’s dry paint alterations.

The cover for my next novel, DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, lives! Book due out on 6/30/26. people.com/paul-trembla...

I’m know I’m not much a photographer, but I visited this sculpture of Johnny Kilbane, Cleveland’s first world champion boxer. The Spit Bucket featured one of my photos alongside a brief essay. Here are some other shots I took (and edited in my own amateurish way).

Issue #7 of The Spit Bucket zine has arrived into my greedy little hands. Look at this beautiful thing. Just look at it. Physical media remains undefeated.

Artist Rafael Kayanan made a group potrait of Robert E. Howard's major characters and I think that's just super wicked cool.

There are few treats tasty as a new book loading into your Kindle or Kobo thanks to a preorder. Today was a good treat day with the release of the latest historical horror anthology from editor Coy Hall. With an incredible lineup of authors, you can't go wrong with this one! Mybook.to/vilewonder

Issue #7 of The Spit Bucket zine has arrived into my greedy little hands. Look at this beautiful thing. Just look at it. Physical media remains undefeated.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

The other night I had this dream where some was reading a book. It had this title in a great seventies font. In the dream, I wondered what the book was about and this is what I remembered when I woke up.

In my hometown, someone in a white pickup truck tried to run over protestors. And then the president posted an AI video of him dropping shit on protesters from a jet.