should’ve charged the mound

I guess he’s an A’s fan.

Anyone else have this book as a kid? I remembered poring over the illustrations when I was young and bought a used copy. Has been a hit with my own kids the past few nights.

Anyone else have this book as a kid? I remembered poring over the illustrations when I was young and bought a used copy. Has been a hit with my own kids the past few nights.

Sneakers is currently free on YouTube. Probably watch that again today.

Also the archive of the old Vintage MTG website The Mana Drain works again! www.archive.themanadrain.com

I’ve been reading archives on The Mana Drain. I like that you can find 19 player local events where multiple people wrote very detailed reports, even if they didn’t T8. What a different time!

From my wife, the novelist: “Writing a novel gives you lots of opportunities to hate yourself.”

Hear, hear!

Eternal Weekend watch party?!

I helped curate another set of Vintage decks for players to try out FOR FREE on Magic Online. Check in next week and try out Vintage, no expensive cards required!

This is a bizarre thing I had never heard of until approximately 12:30 last night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...

Just watching a sink drain half a world away.

OK, more context. @kyleccarson.bsky.social suggested I at least get a picture. It is a darling commode. (Will not be requesting an action shot.)

Ad from our small-town paper, with no other context.

This would have been the winning poem. Castmaster is my favorite time of year, for making friends do things.

Posting the #Castmaster Season 2 report on this, the last day of summer vacation (cat is handsome but mostly unrelated): teamserio.us/posts/202507...

Not making it to Gen Con this year and it is already the pits.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

That movie is 30 years old (sorry), so no one knew but me (old).

Certainly it was a conscious choice to play music from Apollo 13 for people in line for this ride.

These Luke Cage crossover cookies are delicious!

Ahh, coffee, you’re not supposed to make me feel worse! I hate when you do this to me!

I have been convinced (and been given permission) to investigate further and perhaps acquire.

$15 at our local library. Quick estimate suggests it will hold 32,000 cards.

Conversation with my kid: “Captain America uses the potty!” “That’s right, Captain America uses the potty. He’s probably pretty high on the Avengers who use the potty list.”

Castmaster was so great this weekend. All the teams did amazing at one thing or another, and the poetry slam might become a tradition on its own. Congratulations to “Didgeridoos and Don’ts” (Paul Blakeley and John Poggemeyer) for their deserved victory!

As it turns out, Putrefy is NOT in Middle School.

The Land compound is so large that if you were to walk across it at a rate of 3 miles a day, you would get goose poop all over your shoes. (Cat is unrelated.)

I feel powerful. As powerful as Arthur!

Why do there have to be chores? I just want to read my new books about playing Magic in the '90s.

I fell asleep putting our 2yo to sleep and woke up a few minutes later mid-refrain of “Home on the Range.”

Mail day! Every time I think I have all of Baxter’s books another one appears, and I buy two other books along with it.

The mysteries are mysterious, but the prize is defined.

What do you get when you decorate an IKEA dresser with sweet corn and watermelon? A summer-set Malm. Welcome to 3 a.m.

Circle of Protection: Back #CorporatizeAMagicCard

A little preview of Castmaster season 2, coming up at The Land.

hello 👋 professional writer here. it's fine to use "your" and "you're" interchangeably. most readers will understand what you're trying to say either way, and you shouldn't have to placate people who won't read between the lines

I am playing hide and seek again.

Our 5yo’s last day of preschool is today and our 2yo is looking ahead to next year, so we read “Grover Goes to School,” an important lesson in not being a doormat.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Just watching my kid eat a bedtime snack of graham crackers and hummus. How’s your Friday?

@misterabk.bsky.social @eleanormorton.bsky.social I hope someday your podcast gets to Stuart Little. It's very enjoyable, but also very weird.

I got to play paper MTG against real humans tonight. UBG Middle School Secret Lair Slivers had a rough night. But I got to Giant Growth-Giant Growth-Berserk in one Old School game and set up Orcish Artillery and CoP: Red in another! #wotcstaff

One of my favorite Midwesternisms is “yourguyses’,” as in “I put some marzetti in yourguyses’ fridge,” or “Yourguyses’ cans were in the street so I put ‘em by your graj.”

World War II rages. Allies storm the beaches of Normandy. Across the sea, the Manhattan Project prepares to unleash a new era of destruction. And in New York, E. B. White, eager to add his talent to the effort, pens a book that opens with a lady giving birth to a mouse who falls in love with a bird.

Thanks, idiot.

I’m on the third bedtime read through of Stuart Little, and it’s just such a delightfully weird book, and all of the weirdness is taken absolutely in stride.

Not very helpful, really.

To be clear, I also sometimes have greenhouse gas emissions, but just to a mood killing degree.