hilariously unlikely assortment of fellas - @davidjroth.bsky.social, @pjsauer.bsky.social, and me - in a Today Show segment this morning. also @michaelkosta.bsky.social but that's way less unlikely

In memoriam...

this went incredibly badly btw lol! my larger son set off the fire alarm by attempting to go through an emergency exit which, to his credit, didn't used to be an emergency exit, and in the ensuing chaos, my other, smaller son decided it was Time to Disrobe

When I worked at the chocolate factory I pushed to have hot cocoa or “drinking chocolate” trucks by popular Christmas light streets but they never did it It was @spindlypete.bsky.social ‘s idea

there should be dessert trucks that just prowl the neighborhoods in the evening hours, playing light jazz and offering an array of pies and tiramisus for a reasonable price

It’s sad when the caterpillars get eaten but i try to think about how happy a bird or lizard was to find a plant basically covered in free Vienna sausages

Hello! I am teaching a course for the splendid American Short Fiction MFA for All, on physicality in fiction. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject. Kevin Wlson & Tommy Orange are also teaching! Deadline to sign up for my class is 10/5. americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

lovely article about 🤌 the movies 🤌 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ... ... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

#UnJourUnePhoto #photographie 19 septembre Livre

Bejumpered birds lino prints #birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking liquoricelino.etsy.com

my cousin was on morning walk with me and his wife at marina beach in Chennai and going on about how Varuna is a dead god so no need to worry about sea gods in India and he fell and sprained his ankle exactly 1 second later

“Listers, which is streaming for free on YouTube, is like Fear and Loathing for birding.” terrific review

Crying at this snail named Ned (after Flanders) who has a rare left-oriented shell and can only mate with other snails with same so they’re searching worldwide for a mate for him

Day 2 checkpoint. It was a long feeling and draining day at work. 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Coming into focus 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Slow but steady progress 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Almost done 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Image descriptions: The famous Cosmo image of a naked Burt Reynolds reclining on a bearskin rug, reinterpreted in Tlingit #formline style on a traditional leaf-bladed canoe paddle. The head of the bearskin Burt's reclining on, fills the point of the paddle blade. This is just too delightful

2018 "Burt Reynolds," acrylic on cedar paddle by Alison Bremner, an homage to Reynolds' nude 1972 Cosmopolitan photoshoot & her way of pushing back against preponderance of male gaze in art. See more of her work here: alisonobremner.com/ #alaskahistory #alaska

If you want to dress well this fall, imagine yourself as Big Jim Collie, a Scottish crofter in the 1970s who lived alone in a bothy and rode a rickety old bicycle through the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain, while sustaining himself on a bit of dram.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

@mollytempleton.com is always so good: "People seem to get it in their heads that criticism is a lot of things it isn’t (most of the time): a tearing-down, an act of jealousy, an act of ego. The criticism I love best is an act of curiosity. An investigation, an exploration. And an open door."

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...

A visual history of the awesomeness of the matte painting. For 120 years of filmmaking, sets and extras have been faked in post instead of being filmed practically, for logistics, schedule and budget purposes. Matte painters are still on the credits of modern films. Talent remains, tools change.

glorious to see that translation is still dominated by independent and university presses

Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

my friend has two rescue parakeets that love to get in dramatic little fights all the time, and yesterday they moved one of their toys to be between them on their perch so they don't have to look at each other

A story about Ursula K. Le Guin I'd never heard, from Paul Kincaid's Colourfields: "At the time she was discovering science fiction she used to frequent the record store where Philip K. Dick worked, and the two had graduated from the same high school in the same year, but it seems they never met."

This is the buddy comedy we want and deserve!

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Joachim Trier, Jafar Panahi Films to Bookend Jakarta World Cinema Festival (EXCLUSIVE) The Jakarta World Cinema Festival will open and close with a brace of Cannes winners – Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” In a move to support local f… #media #news

Great TV plotlines falling out of the goddam newsfeed for free. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

if we wanted to fix book blurbing we would demand authors share what they texted friends while reading it, then slap "lmao this is pretty good actually" on the cover

the Foggy Mountain Breakdown banjo riff has been played faster and faster every year since 1949 which means that soon banjo pickers will be able to play the riff in negative time allowing them to use the riff to travel back in time to before the original Earl Scruggs recording in order to…….

new horror bookstore opening in Brooklyn www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Mobile bookshop.✨🚐✨

allow me to introduce you to Kent from Houston, who has a TikTok account dedicated to trying restaurants from cultures he hasn’t experienced before, anywhere his commenters tell him to go:

The Seattle Public Library offers a free service called "Your Next 5 Books" where you submit a form about what kinds of books you like + what you'd like to read, and a librarian writes back with their personalized recommendations. My librarian is Jane and she *gets* me on a molecular level

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

Mexican newscaster delivers news about Venezuelan president – my brain is exploding

i got to smell this Eau De Space earlier today when i found out my friends ordered a bottle, and it was probably the most disturbing scent I've ever smelled; it felt like the olfactory equivalent of watching a snuff film or something. i scrubbed my face and nose with soap & water to try to escape it

“they tried to make space: the fragrance and whoops cursed artifact which inflicts madness through scent” is a banger of a horror story idea here

In between the two halves of a showing of the 5+-hour doc My Undesirable Friends, about the clampdown on free speech & human rights in Russia around the time of the invasion of Ukraine, & it really is all that. Truly a stunning achievement in on-the-ground guerilla filmmaking, & brutally relevant.